Intelligence 2.0 – Much Smarter Than You Think

Intelligence 2.0 – Much Smarter Than You Think

The Marketing Consigliere likes to take examples from our nation’s honored warriors and apply them to business and marketing problems.  He also wants to recognize things which can be publicized from the impressive United States Intelligence Community that are relevant to Network-Centric Marketers. Yesterday, the Adobe Intelligence Community Executive Forum, sponsored by Adobe and Carahsoft Technology Corporation, a Washington, DC based government IT solutions provider, was held with a gathering […]

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10 Allinio Predictions for 2009

10 Allinio Predictions for 2009

Prediction 1: Robert Scoble will become marginalized as a new “Twitterer to follow” emerges that is less condescending and opinionated. The Marketing Consigliere actually likes Scoble, has met him twice, but understands that like all “celebrities,” a new one will probably come along that the huddled marketing masses will want to anoint as their new savior.  He will never be relegated as the “Lindsay Lohan” of […]

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Happy Birthday, CAN-SPAM

Happy Birthday, CAN-SPAM

Last week the 5th Anniversary of the CAN-SPAM Act passed by with little fanfare.  To date, there been a handful of notorious spammers brought to court and successfully prosecuted under the act.  This year there was an interesting service of justice when Sanford Wallace, the self-dubbed “Spam King” was fined along with a partner for $230 million to MySpace for using malware and promoting gambling and pornography to MySpace users. […]

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2009 Sacred Cows

2009 Sacred Cows

Recently The Marketing Consigliere asked a question in various LinkedIn discussion groups.  The question was, “What are the two most important marketing projects you have that you don’t want to be forced to cut in 2009? The responses were quite interesting but two that succinctly rose above the noise were the following: Diana Engelmeyer of ExactTarget emphasized the following of importance to her: 1. Behaviorally targeted banner advertising 2. […]

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