Bob Gourley, the CTO and Founder of Crucial Point LLC, is a former CTO for the Defense Intelligence Agency. If anyone knows C4ISR, it is him. The Marketing Consiglire encourages CEOs and CMOs to read his April 2, 2008 entry in his blog, CTO Vision – “What’s Next in Enterprise IT.” There are clear implications for Net-Centric Marketing. Of particular note is a slide presentation of his personal predictions of change […]
Here are a couple of excerpts from articles that The Marketing Consigliere read over the holiday weekend. “Marketing as a whole must get smarter – not only search. Mass marketing has long fallen from favor, yet we are inundated no less than ever with masses of irrelevant marketing. Personal empowerment can be built only with tools that deliver offers and information of high personal relevance. […]
Fra il dire e il fare c’e’ di mezzo il mare. An ocean lies between what is said and what is done.
This is a headset which is being developed by EmSense, a Monterey, California based company that is pioneering physiological neuro-scientific sensing for business decision making. Their patent-pending device has embedded sensors that combine EEG technology used to measure brain-wave activity and other biometrics like eye motion, breathing, cardio activity, body temperature in an individual viewer. Another company, Sands Research, also is helping firms conduct market research by measuring […]
The Marketing Consigliere recently attended a luncheon hosted by the DC Ad Club. The two speakers, Brian Reich and Dan Solomon, were presenting their new book, [amazon ASIN=”B001BMMGJO”]Media Rules! – Mastering Today’s Technology to Connect With and Keep Your Audience[/amazon]. He bought the book, had the authors autograph inside the cover, and proceeded to read it. Here are his thoughts: The byline “Mastering Today’s Technology…” raised his hopes but it […]
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 […]
The Marketing Consigliere reads a lot of trade rags. He scours them to for articles or ideas to bring to The Marketing Consigliere Blog. Sometimes, believe it or not, there’s nothing he thinks meets the newsworthy standards of this blog. Sometimes he gets Blogger’s Block. Sometimes the day job gets in the way, or he spends too much time exploring Second Life for ideas and get sidetracked… And […]
U.S. Patent Application #20070291710 by Apple Inc. basically is a device that can track where a customer makes purchases, and what was purchased. With this information, loyalty programs can be enhanced for regular customers who may buy certain categories of goods habitually. Orders could be placed on particular meals, such as a favorite pizza, and the customer could be notified when seating is ready or the pizza is […]
Since my latest blog in The Marketing Consigliere Blog this week on proposed Behavioral Advertising regulation, the Federal Trade Commission has issued “Online Behavioral Advertising – Moving the Discussion Forward to Possible Self-Regulatory Principles,” a 7-page proposal of voluntary guidelines with which businesses can regulate themselves. After reading the document, I am satisfied that the FTC not responded in a knee-jerk reaction to the shrill, lone voices of those that do […]