What’s Working in Marketing

A new study reports that there has been a drop in the number of Inc. 500 companies who maintain corporate blogs. According to the authors, “Use of blogging may have peaked as a primary social media tool in the US business world. The new data shows adoption of blogging is declining for the first time [...]

Idk what’s going on this week, but it’s only Tuesday and I’ve gotten more than the usual number of questions that fall under the heading of “Really Bad Marketing Advice.” To the credit of my friends and clients who’ve been asking, they knew something was fishy. So they got a second opinion from, well, me. [...]

I love the speed with which new Internet development tools hit the market. Here’s one that let’s you create a mobile app in just a few minutes. App Factory from Mippin.com. $20 to create the app, $750 each for distribution in an app store. Android and Windows Phone 7 are currently supported. The iPhone is [...]

I don’t care how old you are, there’s no denying it…digital communications are now the norm. With easy access to each another, this means even more of your workforce is interacting with customers and prospects on a regular basis. But what are they saying?!?! Not every email and phone call goes through an approval cycle. [...]

I had the pleasure of brainstorming with Rogers Corp. recently. Market Development Manager Ken Kozicki came up with this great idea of Knowledge Sharing Days for the new group he’s put together. They gather every quarter or so to spend some time together, expanding their knowledge base. This week they started with a great technical [...]

Happy New Year all!  Our first post for 2011 is a quick snippet that I read in Chris Brogan’s blog.  In his post “Blogging Tools for 2011” he recommended a few new plugins for WordPress.  I checked them out and will be installing them here on Telesian to see how they go.  Since WordPress Plugins [...]

Millions of personal blogs can be found across the Internet. Some aren’t worth the digital ink they’re written with; others are filled with interesting information about a person’s area of expertise. Here’s a journal about one person’s journey through the horrors of chronic Lyme Disease (something our own family knows all too much about). The [...]

We’re still recovering from the ISA Marketing & Sales Summit in Boston last week. It was the 4th annual event and, I think, the best ever. We had a great group of speakers from the automation industry, and engaged senior-level attendees from marketing and sales. It was 3 days of interesting conversations and idea exchange. [...]

I’m always curious to see what some of the bigger enterprise software companies like IBM,  Oracle and SAP are doing with social media.  So while cruising around, I found the “Oracle Mix Blog” which had a post about Oracle’s  Twitter accounts and trends for the various profiles.  Oracle has 13 twitter accounts out there, and [...]

We’ve been doing a lot more work in the Web 2.0 space recently. Not surprisingly, we see a lot of skepticism from vendors. I’m sure it’s because these marketers aren’t really familiar with the Web 2.0 world. If they were, they would know that their customers are really using social networks and blogs and microblogs. [...]