Archive for January, 2008
Avis: Permission Granted
Having recently joined the fortunate ranks of those not burdened with urban car ownership, I am now among the ranks of those who on occasion have the need to rent a car.
One such occasion occurred last week, when I had to go to Syracuse on business.
Now, Syracuse is not the easiest place to get to [...]
How Marketers Lie to Themselves: "They Love Our Advertising!"
Mary Schmidt has a post up about one of the great marketing delusions: the idea that people just love, love, love seeing ads all the time.
Commenting about Microsoft’s concept of streaming ads to shopping carts in the grocery store, complete with RFID so it can tell you about Pop-Tarts when you’re in the breakfast aisle [...]
Let us give props to Best Buy and the Geek Squad
A week ago Saturday, tired of keeping my HP laptop going by holding the overheating and poorly working power jack in at just the right angle, and worrying about whether the whole thing was going to turn into a not so towering inferno, I decided to get a new laptop.
Off to Best Buy I took [...]
Twitter: Cool, but Not Ready for Prime Time
If you use Twitter regularly, you’ve probably noticed that it’s not the most reliable of web apps. Yes, it’s free, and sure, you have to expect some glitches… but compared to other services, it’s pretty dicey. We are getting a demonstration of that right now. I’m looking at ZDNet’s updating blog page of Macworld keynote [...]
Out With the Old New Thing, In With the New New Thing!
Things move fast in the world of social media. So fast, in fact, that Tuesday’s hot new thing is often Friday’s old news. So I chuckled when I read my first Twitter is, like, so yesterday post.
I am SO sorry for writing this, I L-O-V-E Twitter. Love it! I’m just so sorry to say, Tumblr [...]
Pragmatic Marketing Rule #13
This is the thirteenth in a series of posts on Practical Product Management Rules from Pragmatic Marketing.
Pragmatic Marketing Rule #13: Every “product” needs a product manager and a business case.
In my experience, most B2B technology companies do a pretty good job with making sure that all their products have a product manager. Of course, sometimes [...]
T-Mobile Declares Customer Support Bankruptcy
A while back I heard the phrase “email bankruptcy,” which describes the state some people reach when their inbox contains thousands of messages that they simply cannot cope with. The mere sight of it is paralyzing, and so sometimes people simply “declare bankruptcy” and delete them all - then send a message to everyone in [...]
A Teensie Little Note to Polaroid Marketing
I saw a post on yesterday’s Boston Filter on Polaroid’s new inkless printer, the exceedingly cool Polaroid product that was announced at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. It’s so exceedingly cool, I wrote about it over on Pink Slip. It’s so exceedingly cool, I zipped on over to the Polaroid web [...]
You Can’t Handle Sales
Busy in upstate New York meeting with my fellow opinionated marketers this week, so I’ll just offer you this video, which anybody who’s spent time with salespeople should appreciate:
Blogger envy
A few weeks ago, a client asked me to check out a blog post on a topic related to his technology. For the life of me, I can’t remember what company the blogger worked for, but it was someone big - Microsoft, Cisco, that level.
The post was well written and informative. I looked at a [...]
