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, […]
David Thompson, CEO of Genius.com wrote a succinct article in this week’s DM News titled, “Technology’s sales upside: The death of the cold call.” He makes a great point that with new web tools, which he calls “Sales 2.0,” enable sales people to “reach out to the right people, at the right time, with the right message.” Sales 2.0 fits neatly into the concept of Network Centric Marketing, or […]
Focus groups, which are easily five-figure marketing expenses, are not embraced by all. Those that do understand the value of focus groups know that getting a focus group together is always a challenge and requires a lead time to find and attract qualified participants. Likewise, it takes time to get observers assembled at the same time, behind the mirror to see what’s going on. And […]
I confess to reading carbon-based media, holding it in my hand, and actually enjoying it. I also confess to hanging out with geeks, being nice to them, and actually listening to them (but I still will not say that I myself am a “geek”). Lastly, I confess to making huge leaps of faith on occasion when making certain statements regarding that in which what I […]
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 […]
Elly Trickett, the Editor-in-Chief of DM News, writes in her article “There’s Life (And Opportunity) Behind Data” about the difficulty of keeping track of consumers as they make life changes and inherently contact information changes. With a new residence but only a cell phone, her usual direct mail fails to reach her but certain vendors plugged into the moving / postal world know how to reach […]
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, […]
What is a C4ISR technology that the military uses when trying to see through night, fog, and other types of inclement weather? Night-vision goggles. Night-vision is facilitated with the integration of two technologies – Enhanced spectral range technology enables the observer to see light outside the human range of electromagnetic spectrum (visible light), including infrared. Enhanced intensity range technology increases the ability to see within low-light environments. What is a C4ISR technology that […]
James Surowiecki was onto something when he wrote [amazon ASIN=”0385721706″]The Wisdom of Crowds[/amazon]. But if large groups of people are “smarter than an elite few,” imagine what you could do with a large group of elites… The Marketing professional who grasps the concept of C4ISR Marketing is one of those elites, albeit an under-appreciated, under-budgeted, and under-empowered elite. What else should he or she do then but find […]