June, 2008 | Marketing Darwinism

Unlock your PDF’s and set them free! – a podcast with Peter Nieforth

Classically marketers have always been protective of their content locking them up in PDFs and then putting a registration page in front of them. This behavior is known to have a 1 in 10 (10%) download rate which isn’t bad by marketing standards but on the flip side that means there is a 90% leakage [...] [...]

Social Games: Useful for B2B Marketers?

It should come as no surprise that the online gaming market is exploding. In fact, last year online gaming attracted 28 percent of the total worldwide online population — almost 217 million people! For a long time gamers were thought of as young guys with glasses and zits playing for 14 hours a day but [...] [...]

Unleash your Community on the Election!

One of my most trusted friends and mentors recently joined a very intriguing company called – SuccessFactors (stock symbol SFSF). They specialize in HR software with a SaaS product that is second to none in the market. From a marketing and social media perspective several things about this company got my attention and my envy [...] [...]

Brand as a Dialog

An interesting study from the University of Texas recently showed that the typical information posted on social networking sites – favorite books, movies, music, and quotes; major; hometown; and similar personal items – doesn’t always give others an accurate impression of you. When the researchers tested so called “friends” of a user on basic questions [...] [...]

New Rules of Web Marketing – a podcast with Michael Mace

Many marketing teams are being asked by senior leaders in their organizations why they aren’t using the same cutting edge tactics as some of their competitors. When is it right to use cutting edge tactics? When is it right to use traditional tactics? When and how should you integrate the two? To answer these questions, [...] [...]