In his opinion column of this week’s BtoB Magazine, (if you’re in B2B you should be a subscriber – I can’t “live” without it!) Ellis Booker, the Editor, asks the question perfectly: “Media execs cling to print…too tightly?” He was referring to his observations at the recent American Business Media annual Top Management Meeting in Chicago. The Marketing Consigliere wishes he had been a fly on the wall. But then again, he […]
The three floors of ad:tech at the New York Hilton were buzzing this week. Compared to last April’s event in San Francisco, it was an older crowd, and it definitely was a crowd. Advertising agencies, affiliates, SEO gurus and the like. Following my proven time management routine, I avoided the booths of any company whose message in the ad-tech program was “we are a leading web analytics firm.” That way […]
While we have a classic case of challenging those who control the “means of production,” there is something new that the Writers Guild of America should worry about. This is a test of Network-Centric Marketing – of the “wisdom of crowds,” of social networking, and of public relations and brand management. CSI is already on Second Life, inviting viewers to “act” in its virtual episode. While the basic script […]
Hi! To those of you who have emailed The Marketing Consigliere wondering where he’s been, here’s the short story – He bought a new laptop and not all of his User IDs and Passwords made it with him. It took him a while to get everything configured and up to speed. Oh yeah, he has also fired his employer, contracted his services out, and is […]
Last spring at ad:tech, The Marketing Consigliere had a limited amount of time to spend at the show so he opted to walk around and drill marketers and product managers at their exhibition booths rather than sit with the herd at the keynotes or breakout sessions. With a huge floor to cover, whom did he choose to visit first? In his hotel room the night before, […]
David Thompson, CEO of Genius.com wrote a succinct article in this week’s DM News titled, “Technology’s sales upside: The death of the cold call.” He makes a great point that with new web tools, which he calls “Sales 2.0,” enable sales people to “reach out to the right people, at the right time, with the right message.” Sales 2.0 fits neatly into the concept of Network Centric Marketing, or […]
Focus groups, which are easily five-figure marketing expenses, are not embraced by all. Those that do understand the value of focus groups know that getting a focus group together is always a challenge and requires a lead time to find and attract qualified participants. Likewise, it takes time to get observers assembled at the same time, behind the mirror to see what’s going on. And […]
I confess to reading carbon-based media, holding it in my hand, and actually enjoying it. I also confess to hanging out with geeks, being nice to them, and actually listening to them (but I still will not say that I myself am a “geek”). Lastly, I confess to making huge leaps of faith on occasion when making certain statements regarding that in which what I […]
With Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and a headsets or microphone, users will be able to place free calls to U.S. and Canadian phone numbers over their computers – the catch?- Pudding Media’s voice recognition powered ad serving system will deliver ads during the conversation on their computer screen. Similar analytics are already in use with textual data; Google’s Gmail delivers advertisements upon analyzing text in the […]
Elly Trickett, the Editor-in-Chief of DM News, writes in her article “There’s Life (And Opportunity) Behind Data” about the difficulty of keeping track of consumers as they make life changes and inherently contact information changes. With a new residence but only a cell phone, her usual direct mail fails to reach her but certain vendors plugged into the moving / postal world know how to reach […]