Pointing out interesting things in marketing
Here is a new, must-see video for B2B marketers interested in social media. It has been prepared by our friends at Earnest Agency in the UK. Of the stats presented, here some which are especially noteworthy: CIO’s could well be the biggest blocker to social media adoption. Fifty-four percent of CIO’s prohibit use of social … Read more
How many social media sites do you update on a regular basis? Perhaps it would be better to rephrase the question as: How many social media sites would you like to update on a regular basis? Ping.fm is a useful aggregation service which allows you to do just that: post content simultaneously to a large … Read more
Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft (and Google) View more presentations from Ouriel Ohayon. I’d like to share this fantastic presentation by French consulting firm faberNovel, a study on how Apple has maneuvered itself successfully in the market against Microsoft and Google.
More and more B2B marketers are turning to lead scoring as a way of optimizing lead management. Many of us will remember when we used to process raw Excel lists, handing over hundreds of names with job titles and companies to our sales department, only to find that leads weren’t being followed up on. It … Read more
The product managers at Google TV released a new video today explaining what Google TV is and what it may mean to you. On May 20, 2010, Google announced the launch of Google TV, a service which brings the Web and TV closer together. Here are some of the main features that Google TV will … Read more
YouTube has reached a couple of milestones recently, including: more than 24 hours of video uploaded per minute over two billion video views per day (see the Mashable post) YouTube also turned five years old a couple of weeks ago, and here is a video which celebrates its remarkable short history and growth.
Over the past couple of weeks, a storm of angst has been gathering over Facebook’s new Instant Personalization Program. The program has been criticized by privacy advocates as many Facebook users are unaware that it now shares your personal information with partner websites, by default. Here’s how you can opt out of the new instant … Read more
How do B2B marketers tackle the question of marketing campaign value? Do we make strategic decisions based on real, actionable data? With the firehose of data that is available to marketers now-a-days, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find the information that truly matters. And this is especially true for B2B with their typically complex, drawn … Read more
Thought-provoking insight on the contemporary workplace from Jason Fried, co-founder of 37 Signals and author of New York Times bestseller, Rework.
I saw this image as a blog post comment yesterday and unfortunately can’t remember where I found it. If you know the copyright owner, please let me know so I can attribute it accordingly. This was just too funny to not share.