Nowadays with advertising proliferating everywhere, there are ads on checkout line conveyor belts, large ad stickers on flooring, and mini-ads on shopping carts, on gas pumps, to mention a few. I recently picked up a copy of P-O-P Times, a publication of the In-Store Marketing Institute. Most of the editorial covers point-of-purchase products that retailers can use on their shelves or in the aisles. Nice, creative, […]
What is a C4ISR technology that the military uses when trying to see through night, fog, and other types of inclement weather? Night-vision goggles. Night-vision is facilitated with the integration of two technologies – Enhanced spectral range technology enables the observer to see light outside the human range of electromagnetic spectrum (visible light), including infrared. Enhanced intensity range technology increases the ability to see within low-light environments. What is a C4ISR technology that […]
James Surowiecki was onto something when he wrote [amazon ASIN=”0385721706″]The Wisdom of Crowds[/amazon]. But if large groups of people are “smarter than an elite few,” imagine what you could do with a large group of elites… The Marketing professional who grasps the concept of C4ISR Marketing is one of those elites, albeit an under-appreciated, under-budgeted, and under-empowered elite. What else should he or she do then but find […]
In my earlier blog, “SMBs & C4ISR Marketing,” I spoke about how small and medium size business can leverage the power of satellite imagery and apply it to their business. There’s a different and maybe even better way to be a C4ISR Marketer and its origins are in my backyard in the Washington DC area… GeoCommons allows users to “Explore, Create & Share Intelligent Maps and Geographic Data.” […]
Louise Story’s August 6th article in The New York Times, “It’s an Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad World, started my week off with a bang. Publicis Groupe, a leading multinational agency, will be farming out the creation of “thousands of versions of ads.” Not through an electronic sweatshop, but still an outsourced set of firms that will produce a rather high throughput of variation upon variation of […]
The EMM and MRM vendors out there, who are a part of what is C4ISR Marketing, have been doing some great things and I will be blogging about several of them in the future. However, the perception is that the price points of their products are high due to the fact that they are time consuming, somewhat painful integrations that only the big boys can play with. […]
Jeff Gundersen’s recent article “All You Digitally Deficient CMOs Need Not Apply” in the July 23rd Advertising Age reminded me of my blog entry just a couple of weeks ago about what I call the “Digital Leadership Vacuum.” Yet another reminder that Marketers should be leaders, and not “Technology Leave-Behinds.” The surge in EMM and MRM is going to drown their careers if they don’t watch out. The […]
Under the headline “Public Voice Adds Edge to Debate,” the July 24th Washington Post front page article also had a tagline, ”Democrats Face Questions from Internet Users in Unorthodox Format.” While it’s too early to say whether YouTube and Web 2.0 are a “flash in the pan” (I don’t think they are) , it struck me funny that it was considered “unorthodox.” True, Webster’s defines the word […]
The Online Marketing Summit has been making its nationwide tour and so far the verdict has been: Excellent. I had the privilege of sitting on one of the panels and addressing the audience of 120+ professionals eager to know about trends and challenges in the new Web 2.0 world. There’s a lot on social networking, search engine marketing, user generated content, virtual worlds, and web analytics from […]
There once was a company with a proud brand. They talked about how to strengthen the brand, how to promote the brand, and how to leverage the brand. When I asked how they measured the efficacy of his “branding,” they had no answer. They ran no focus groups regularly. They polled no customers. They held no internal meetings to develop a measurement methodology. They could […]