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CMO 2.0 Conversation with Erin Nelson, CMO at Dell, and Manish Mehta, VP of Social Media and Communities

Thursday, March 4th, 2010 Posted in Interesting Links | 10 Comments »

My CMO 2.0 Conversation with Erin Nelson, the CMO at Dell, came with a bonus in that Manish Mehta, the VP of Social Media and Community for Dell joined us ... Read more..

CMO 2.0 Conversation with Larry Flanagan, CMO at MasterCard

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 Posted in cmo2.0 | 7 Comments »

My CMO 2.0 Conversation with Larry Flanagan, the CMO at MasterCard was a good one. As is usually the case with these interviews, Larry started off by giving us some context ... Read more..

Customer vs. brand advocacy

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Strategy, buying behaviour, marketing | 12 Comments »

What do you expect from your marketing department - to be your brand advocates in the marketplace or to be your customer advocates within your company. Chances are that you ... Read more..

Active lurkers – the hidden asset in online communities

Thursday, February 18th, 2010 Posted in Hyper Social Enterprise, Interesting Links, Strategy, communities, social media, social networking | 34 Comments »

Most communities have 90% of users who are lurkers - people who may consume things from the community, but who don't contribute. Through our yearly Tribalization of Business Study, we ... Read more..

Customer Reference Programs in a Hyper-Social world

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 Posted in Hyper Social Enterprise, Interesting Links, buying behaviour, word of mouth | 27 Comments »

There is no question that customer reference programs do work. Long employed to support sales and marketing (you cannot talk to an analyst without having customer references) efforts in the ... Read more..

Word of Mouth from non-loyal customers has the biggest impact on sales

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in Interesting Links, word of mouth | 15 Comments »

First off, thanks for your patience after this long hiatus in my blog activity. Now let's just get back into it! When you are trying to "fabricate" Word of Mouth (WOM) ... Read more..

Word of Mouth is very valuable – as long as you do not pay for it

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted in Consumer generated media, Hyper Social Enterprise, buying behaviour, marketing, word of mouth | 37 Comments »

There has been a lot of research on the value of acquiring a customer though Word of Mouth versus Traditional Marketing. One recent project, which was published in the Journal ... Read more..

The joy of not being sold to

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted in random brainsqualls | 10 Comments »

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CMO 2.0 Influencer Conversation with Don Peppers

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in cmo2.0 | 25 Comments »

I've been a long time champion of Don Peppers' work and so it was especially fun to conduct this CMO 2.0 Influencer Conversation with him. Don is the co-author of ... Read more..

Forget information channels – how organizations must embrace knowledge networks instead

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Hyper Social Enterprise, Interesting Links | 25 Comments »

Information channels stop working when the customer is collaboratively involved in the delivery of the message. When that happens, the message (and sometimes the definition of the product and its ... Read more..