Let There Be QR

Let There Be QR

Much has been written about QR (Quick Response) codes, but there still has been relatively little proliferation of this technology for everyday businesses.  For now, it seems as though the most common applicaiton of QR codes is on display advertising.  So what can you do with them? What is exactly is a QR code?  First think “bar code” which are one-dimensional (1-D) representations of data in […]

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Happy Third “Blogiversary”

Happy Third “Blogiversary”

This is the third anniversary of this blog.  Similar milestones were previously acknowledged in 2009 and 2008 with much joy and pasta, but this year is extra special.  Although it is still referred to as “The Marketing Consigliere” Blog, and written in the third person narrative, it is undergoing change as it figures out what kind of Marketing blog it wants to be when it grows up. Earlier this spring […]

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Unica Helps Marketers Reach Out to iPad Users

Unica Helps Marketers Reach Out to iPad Users

This month Unica subsidy Pivotal Veracity announced that its award-winning MailboxIQ product email rendering imaging for the Apple iPad.  This capability allows Marketers to target and track email communications to iPad users. This is a tremendous boost to the utility of this marketing automation technology, which determines what device customers or prospects are using to view email, and then renders the communication in the device-specific format whether it be iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry or other “smart” […]

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Snap! B2B iPhone Apps! Part III

Snap! B2B iPhone Apps! Part III

In early February, The Marketing Consigliere posted a blog about iPhone apps for B2B organizations and then reported about more later that month. Since then a few more iPhone apps for B2B companies have debuted, and The Marketing Consigliere advises you to be aware of them. WebEx, the leading web conferencing company bought a leading web analytics play, recently released their iPhone app, and The Marketing Consigliere is pleased that […]

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Robots & Bots Are Part of Marketing Automation

Robots & Bots Are Part of Marketing Automation

Parrot drone controllable by an iPhone; modifiable for gathering data This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from Allinio’s white paper Net-Centric Marketing & Information Superiority. Company UAVs? In the military, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) fly in theaters of operation, remotely controlled by an individual with a joystick, gathering data to be used elsewhere. Other modes of UVs are terrestrial, marine surface, and submarine-based.   Some are […]

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Snap! B2B iPhone Apps! Part II

Snap! B2B iPhone Apps! Part II

The other week, The Marketing Consigliere posted a blog about iPhone apps for B2B organizations.  Those apps were primarily mobile extensions of CRM applications, for use by salespeople.  There are few more to talk about, each more suitable for the marketing side of an organization.  Ironically, despite the “hotness” of the iPhone and in the Marketing arena, the “hotness” of marketing automation tools, it’s hard to […]

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Snap! B2B iPhone Apps! – Part I

Snap! B2B iPhone Apps! – Part I

With more companies computing in “the cloud,” and more people going mobile, it will be important to stay connected to the constant marketing data streams that help make timely, critical decisions.  Apple‘s popular iPhone, which was once thought of as a shiny object with frivolous bells and whistles, is becoming a potential powerful tool for the B2B Marketing professional. Some leading marketing automation service providers have created applications […]

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Holiday Carol: Talking In A Mobile Wonderland

Holiday Carol: Talking In A Mobile Wonderland

Creative Commons by Habi, Flickr.com   Sung to the tune of “Winter Wonderland.” Email comes while you’re driving Contract in, business thriving, Up in your HumVee, With Bluetooth hands-free, Talking in a mobile wonderland. Hear some tunes while you’re texting, Crowdsource peeps, “What’s the next thing?” You’ll download it hence, For ninety-nine cents, Talking in a mobile wonderland. For the iPhone we can build a […]

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Augmented Reality – The New Reality?

Augmented Reality – The New Reality?

Using a virtual to real-world conversion mechanism, the location of Second Life avatars is converted to locations on the map of The Hague. Carrying a GPS device, a group of walking tour participants will explore the real-life manifestation of the virtual world, interacting with the avatars in their vicinity. (Creative Commons by Overig on Flickr.com) The Marketing Consigliere does not make it a habit to […]

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TAPping Into iPhone Apps

TAPping Into iPhone Apps

TapMetrics, Inc. is a “Northern-California/Washington DC-based start-up” that develops analytic dashboards allowing marketers to better understand what users are doing with their iPhone applications (other mobile platforms are slated for the product roadmap). The Marketing Consigliere met Christopher Brown, TapMetrics’ CEO at the recent TechCocktail DC event and was enthused to learn about this company.  A quick demo convinced him that TapMetrics is going in the right direction. A simple Google search results […]

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