In the iMedia Connection article “Heralding the Death of Non-Social Media,” Doug Schumacher of Basement, Inc. has correctly pointed out that in an increasingly Network Centric Marketing world, “A high percentage of purchases are already preceded by online research. And where there is online research, there are search results. Those search engine results pages often bring up links to a number of consumer review sites.“ Yes, there are empirical studies corraborating […]
There are two very interesting net-centric marketing developments for in the B2C world that have made the trade press recently. The Kraft iPhone Assistant is available through iTunes and allows users to view recipes (using Kraft products of course), save favorite recipes, watch a cooking video, create shopping lists, find stores, and even get offers or incentives from participating stores. All this while seeing ads for Kraft products. It is currently […]
Prediction 1: Robert Scoble will become marginalized as a new “Twitterer to follow” emerges that is less condescending and opinionated. The Marketing Consigliere actually likes Scoble, has met him twice, but understands that like all “celebrities,” a new one will probably come along that the huddled marketing masses will want to anoint as their new savior. He will never be relegated as the “Lindsay Lohan” of […]
Santa comes to the mall once a year (although he does get there earlier than he used to). This year, when you bring your children to see him, imagine that after the photos are taken, you don’t need to get the hard copy right away or even wait for them to be emailed. They’re on a photo sharing site where all your loved ones can […]
In “Two Better Mousetraps,” the Marketing Consigliere blogged about his preference for one professional-to-professional communication technology over another. He thought DubMeNow offered a less cumbersome way to electronically transfer information between networkers than Mingle360. Living in the Washington, DC area, it was interesting to blog about the two companies. Now the Marketing Consigliere would like to exercise his prerogative to correct a misperception he had about Mingle360. You […]
Recently The Marketing Consigliere asked a question in various LinkedIn discussion groups. The question was, “What are the two most important marketing projects you have that you don’t want to be forced to cut in 2009? The responses were quite interesting but two that succinctly rose above the noise were the following: Diana Engelmeyer of ExactTarget emphasized the following of importance to her: 1. Behaviorally targeted banner advertising 2. […]
Two companies in the Washington, DC area are approaching a time honored business ritual – the exchange of business cards between two professionals – in slightly different ways. DubMeNow of Vienna, Virginia has a smart phone based application that allows people to quickly text or email their contact data to another user with the application loaded on their smart phone. The data appends directly to device’s […]
Today’s earlier blog, “When Bad Things Happen to Good Data” takes into account major hardware disasters. But what about all the little gadgets that are out there in the hands of field personnel? Items like laptops, cellphones, smartphones and other devices can get destroyed, lost, or even stolen. Stolen assets are what scare business leaders the most due to the sensitive nature of files that […]