Last week’s post revived a discussion from two years prior. So it seems we do this again. A little over two years ago, we addressed a debate over “art vs. science and math” with regard to advertising and once again an alarmist is presenting a failing, emotional argument to fight a business argument. This week’s Advertising Age ran “The Dangers of Online Advertising’s ‘Math State,’” Kendall Allen of the Laredo Group laments that “Filling […]
From the left: Chris Wolf and Marcy Wilder of Hogan Lovells; Maneesha Mithal of the FTC; Stuart K. Pratt of the CDIA, Justin Brookman of the CDT; and Jane Horvath of Google. (not pictured: Hooman Radfar of Clearspring and Robert Quinn of AT&T) It’s been over two years since we blogged about “Do Not Track” regulations, and the pendulum has been swinging in favor of those […]
Marketo, a leadMarketing Automation platform developer, has been going around the United States for the past few weeks with its ‘Rock Your Revenue’ Tour. The 14-city rock-and-roll themed tour kicked off in March and features several Marketing and Sales experts and thought leaders, who are providing valuable perspective regarding what sales and marketing leaders must do to demonstrate measurable ROI and increase revenue for their organizations: […]
Artwork by James Montgomery Flagg, 1920 Allinio is headquartered in the Washington, DC area, so we could not resist a blog post tying Marketing to the travails of our government. There are lessons to be learned from the Federalistas’ latest drama. Whether it involves a start-up or corporate division, a Marketing budget is under more scrutiny than ever. And while this may appear to be […]
Gumdrops by terren in Virginia No surprise, the second day of SugarCon was as satisfying as the first. Keynote 1 Brian Halligan, CEO of HubSpot started the day with the story of how he realized “inbound marketing” was the proper way to match your marketing efforts with a customer’s buying habits. One of the most interesting things he shared was the list of the most popular keywords used that are linked […]
“Candy” by livingonimpulse We had a really great time at SugarCon today learning about their CRM platform and ecosystem. For those of you who could not make it, it was a good crowd with fantastic speakers. Here are some of the highlights of Day 1: Keynote 1 Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM, started things off with a message of “The Future of Business is Open,” vowing to steward […]
Aum Chow by AZRainman There are no Marketing Automation “Gurus.” There are no Marketing Automation “Chief Awesome Officers.” There are no Marketing Automation “Ninjas” Just because Marketing Automation is coming of age in parallel with social media, do not think that practitioners of Marketing Automation are of the same stripe as social media “strategists,” “acrobats,” or the above titles. (And yes, while Allinio’s President and […]
Like last year’s blogpost, this one will focus on Super Bowl LXV‘s B2B, not B2C advertisements, but it will be awfully short with emphasis on awful. It’s a given that the commercial breaks would be dominated by the “usual suspects” of B2C Marketing; but where there was hope of a in increase in participation by B2B organizations. However, the only commercials that were definitely meant for business users […]
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 […]
2011 is still new enough that we should look back at 2010 and see what kind of lessons learned we should take into this new year. The American Marketing Association‘s publication, Marketing News, came out with “The Year in Review,” which was mildly disappointing. “Four of the biggest stories” was woefully short of other considerable developments in the Marketing world. Yes, the tragic earthquake devastating the […]