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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Today I’m flattered to be a guest blogger on Geoff Livingston’s The Buzz Bin. He and I have briefly discussed the collective rise in power of bloggers, another manifestation of the “wisdom of crowds” concept. Bloggers are achieving credibility – all in just a few years. I encourage you to read Geoff’s blogs and if you ever get a chance, hear his impassioned speaking about business […]
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 […]
Sensor technology is paving the way for innovative advertising. Travelers passing through Houston, Orlando and Miami’ s main airports will now be able to activate ads simply by walking near a wall. On these walls are oversized ads that will roll, courtesy of JCDeacaux North America, the agency, Orbitz, the advertiser, and Monster Media, the technology provider of the “MonsterVision” advertising system. MonsterVision was unleashed earlier this year […]
A couple weeks back, the Web Analytics Association hosted a webinar entitled “Web Analytics is Easy!” along with Eric Peterson’s Web Analytics Demystified. The title was ironic on purpose. Web analytics is complicated and just beginning to evolve. One of the most interesting slides called “Web Site Optimization Ecosystem Technology” prompted me to do a little quick and dirty research. The idea of the slide was that pure web analytics tools measuring […]
We have all called customer support lines and have heard the caveat that our calls may be recorded for “quality monitoring.” Sometimes it’s reminded us to be a little more selective with the words we use to describe our joys at being inconvenienced. Most of the time the admonition is ignored as we immediately push our case down the throat of some poor lowly paid […]
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, […]
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.” […]