SuperAds XLIII

The Marketing Consigliere prepared himself for Superbowl XLIII by reviewing his guest blog at Scott White’s blog, The Big Kahuna.  He thought it would be interesting to see how far Marketing has come in a year.

Superbowl XLIII

This year’s Superbowl had some well announced changes such as GM pulling out of its long time sponsorship.  Fine – not everyone was willing to pay $3,000,000 for a spot this year.   While no agency stood out significantly among the crowd, there were definitely some bombs.  Brand management professionals may need to think hard for next year. [Read more...]

EmSense – Common Sense or Nonsense?

EmSense Glasses

This is a headset which is being developed by EmSense, a Monterey, California based company that is pioneering physiological neuro-scientific sensing for business decision making. Their patent-pending device has embedded sensors that combine EEG technology used to measure brain-wave activity and other biometrics like eye motion, breathing, cardio activity, body temperature in an individual viewer. Another company, Sands Research, also is helping firms conduct market research by measuring physiological data. [Read more...]

Squidoo Lenses for B2B Marketers?

The Marketing Consigliere has set up a “lens” called ”C4ISR  Marketing – aka Network Centric Marketing” on Squidoo and is trying to teach himself about whether it provides utility for B2B marketers. HIs “lens” (this is what you call your site there) is not a high ranking site in the Squidoo world by any means, but he guesses it’s better than a lot of others. For now he’ll tinker with it and learn.

Squidoo is the brain child of Seth Godin and was built by Viget Labs. The Marketing Consigliere think it’s a great concept and there is much more education to obtain on his part to leverage more value out of it. Here’s his question: It seems perfect for hobbyists, enthusiasts, consultants and the like, but can/should companies set up lenses like they set up MySpace pages and expect traffic either to that site or from that site for gathering data? [Read more...]