Let There Be QR

Let There Be QR

Much has been written about QR (Quick Response) codes, but there still has been relatively little proliferation of this technology for everyday businesses.  For now, it seems as though the most common applicaiton of QR codes is on display advertising.  So what can you do with them? What is exactly is a QR code?  First think “bar code” which are one-dimensional (1-D) representations of data in […]

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Snap! B2B iPhone Apps! – Part I

Snap! B2B iPhone Apps! – Part I

With more companies computing in “the cloud,” and more people going mobile, it will be important to stay connected to the constant marketing data streams that help make timely, critical decisions.  Apple‘s popular iPhone, which was once thought of as a shiny object with frivolous bells and whistles, is becoming a potential powerful tool for the B2B Marketing professional. Some leading marketing automation service providers have created applications […]

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Krafty and Wal*Smart?

Krafty and Wal*Smart?

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 […]

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Two Better Mousetraps?

Two Better Mousetraps?

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 […]

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Keep The Juice Flowing When You’re Offline

Keep The Juice Flowing When You’re Offline

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 […]

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The Apple of My “I” (As in C4″I”SR)

The Apple of My “I” (As in C4″I”SR)

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 […]

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