Digital Body Language – Read It and Read It!

Digital Body Language – Read It and Read It!

While attending the Online Marketing Summit in Washington, DC, the audience had the privilege to listen to the lunchtime keynote by Steve Woods, CTO of Eloqua, a leading marketing automation platform provider.  He was handing out copies of his recently published book, Digital Body Language, to people who asked questions at the end of his speech. Fortunately, the Marketing Consigliere asked one of the questions and was pleased to obtain a […]

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When Offline Won’t “Bomb”

When Offline Won’t “Bomb”

When does offline beat online?  When you need to make a point about the physical world and physical media can pack the most punch.  The Marketing Consigliere likes to focus on Internet based technologies that marketers should use, but tips his hat to some good old-fashioned analog ingenuity.  DMNews recently highlighted a very creative effort by agency DraftFCB New Zealand that helped their client, the Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition (ANZCMC) A […]

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Your PURLsonal Brand

Your PURLsonal Brand

The trend towards personalization in the B2C arena is gathering momentum.  This week an interesting announcement made the trade press regarding the famous brand Brooks Brothers – They are working with direct marketing company MBS to bring a unique one-to-one solution to their customers.  Using MBS’ Klondike relational database, Brooks Brothers will be able to integrate data from their call center, brick and mortar, and online efforts.   By also leveraging data […]

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Happy Birthday, CAN-SPAM

Happy Birthday, CAN-SPAM

Last week the 5th Anniversary of the CAN-SPAM Act passed by with little fanfare.  To date, there been a handful of notorious spammers brought to court and successfully prosecuted under the act.  This year there was an interesting service of justice when Sanford Wallace, the self-dubbed “Spam King” was fined along with a partner for $230 million to MySpace for using malware and promoting gambling and pornography to MySpace users. […]

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The New Network-Centric President

The New Network-Centric President

Joe Zuccaro, Allinio’s President and Marketing Consigliere is going to go out on a limb, less than 12 hours before the polls close.  According to the media, however, not too much of a limb – they have been using some interesting predictive analytical tools.  He is calling the election and declare Barack Obama the winner of the 2008 Presidential Election. OK, that’s probably not a shocker to most people.  […]

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OMMA Awards – Oh My!

OMMA Awards – Oh My!

The Marketing Consigliere would like to congratulate the following agencies and their clients for making OMMA‘s finalist list in the category of E-Mail Campaign for 2008: Moxie Interactive, for Verizon Wireless Smith Harmon Inc. for REI Tribal DDB for Pepsi-Cola All of these accounts bring the art of email to a new level and makes up for a lot of the negativity from spam.  While he was not an email delivery […]

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Cooper Pooped on RFID?

Cooper Pooped on RFID?

About a year and a half ago, Mini Cooper instituted an interesting promotional campaign using RFID technology.  Cooper owners were given RFID-enabled key fobs which interacted with special billboards in EZPass regions.   When the driver approached the billboard in his or her Mini, a talking car would appear, along with the person’s name who registered the key fob. So now the question must be asked, why isn’t there more marketing like this?  Did […]

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Downturns, Data, and a Dare

Downturns, Data, and a Dare

Last week in the February 18, 2008 issue of Advertising Age,the headline article by Bradley Johnson was entitled “Media Work Force Sinks to 15-Year Low.” So jobs were bad in the last recession of the early 1990s and they’re bad again. OK…   The article’s graph clearly shows media jobs peaking during the dotcom bubble, rapidly shrinking, but finally leveling off for the past few years and […]

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Superbowl Ads and Branding – What’s Under the Hood?

Superbowl Ads and Branding – What’s Under the Hood?

Last year, Super Bowl XLI was interesting in that the Doritos commercial was made from user-generated content and this year for Super Bowl XLII they promoted their brand with user-generated music. Regarding advertising, there were the “usual suspects” who provided acceptable, entertaining commercials that were spoken about at the water cooler the following week; but from a social networking or technological view this Super Bowl was a bit of […]

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eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit

eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit

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, […]

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