SearchCRM.com Products of the Year

SearchCRM.com Products of the Year

SearchCRM.com has named its Products of the Year for 2008.  This is the fifth year that SearchCRM.com has been helping sort out the playing field for Marketing and Sales executives who need to understand the pros and cons of various platforms out there which help their enterprise become more net-centric. Using Marketer-friendly criteria of  Innovation, Performance, Ease of Integration, Ease of Use, Functionality, and Value, along with a marketing technology “dream team” (sans […]

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4-Point Strategy: How Not to Get “Whacked”

4-Point Strategy: How Not to Get “Whacked”

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 […]

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Ribbit – the Coolest App in the Pond

Ribbit – the Coolest App in the Pond

The past few weeks have been so hectic the Marketing Consigliere has let his blogging slip but he is still able to keep his personal goal of blogging about marketing and technology every month for an entire year . His latest absence from the blogosphere is this: He is working with a turnaround management team at a VC-backed startup in the space that he has been […]

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Fear and Loathing in the Department Silos

Fear and Loathing in the Department Silos

The cover story of the May 12, 2008 issue of Fortune magazine is “The Best Advice I Ever Got.” All of the stories cover a very diverse set of leaders and are both a quick reading and interesting.  The one that stuck out most in The Marketing Consigliere’s mind was that of Craig Newmark of Craigslist.  In particular, his statement that he “was working within a marketing division, […]

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