Norman Rockwell, Freedom From Want Just a short note today – the Marketing Consigliere does not need to remind you to be thankful for the usual blessings in your life, but wants to make some out-of-the-ordinary thank yous: Thank you to all the Marketers out there who are leveraging the power of Network Centric Marketing and doing their best to bring us the products and services […]
A recent survey conducted by Epsilon reports that 55% of marketing executives said they’re “not too interested” or “not interested at all” in including social networking into their marketing efforts. Don’t they realize their children, whether in college, high school, or grade school are spending inordinate amount of time on social networks? Don’t they know that an entire generation of their employee base has been IMing for […]
You’re FIRED! The scary thing about these two words is that most Marketing leaders reading this blog know another Exec who has recently been fired (as the Marketing Consigliere likes to say, “got whacked.”) or is worrying about getting whacked themselves. We all know the stat – the average CMO tenure is less than two years, perhaps give or take a few months. And for companies too small […]
We’ve all had hard drives crash and gone through the hell of picking up our business lives afterwards. For individuals this can be traumatic and completely disruptive. But what happens to the Enterprise when a database “detonates?” It can make or break a company’s existence; so the money spent on preventing data catastrophes is well spent, but it is prudent to be prepared for the […]
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. […]
What helps make network centric marketing possible? Energy. So what about your remote sales force, your “road warriors?” Even if they don’t need to be directly online for their task at hand, they still need energy for “old fashioned” offline computing. So effectively we’re all electricity junkies, desperately looking to get a constant fix. The Marketing Consigliere hates running out of juice on his smartphone […]
This week’s Adweek cover story is about alleged ageism in the advertising industry. “War of the Ages” tries to present a picture of aging baby boomers getting tossed from high-six figure jobs and being replaced by less expensive, “hipper” younger professionals. These hipper and younger professionals also happen to know a lot about network-centric marketing than the axed veterans. While that last statement may be a generalization, […]
The Marketing Consigliere cursed Bill Gates before he ever knew he existed. His first job out of college was with Mayflower Moving. (How he got from working in trucking industry to working in the Internet industry is simple – they’re both transportation related. One is with packages while one is with packets – you must deliver them both on time without dropping them.) Or you could […]
This year’s Business Marketing Association (BMA) Conference was very enjoyable. This was The Marketing Consigliere’s second time, so he was able to reconnect with people he had met with the previous year. While The Venetian was a great place to visit in 2007, he thought that Loews Lake Las Vegas Resort was an amazing venue and made it a much more relaxing atmosphere in which to network with other B2B marketers. He […]
