Posts Tagged ‘Marketing’

New Marketing Summit trip report

Time was, back in the day of the dinosaurs, I was required to submit a trip report after a customer visit, conference, or meeting.  I’m not really expected to do these anymore, but I think posting one on my blog is a great way of accomplishing that goal and getting even more mileage from it.
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Marketers – We’re not just about our next meal

I recently attended the New Marketing Summit in Foxboro Massachusetts.  I have a more detailed post brewing about what I loved, liked and didn’t like about the conference (hint, it is almost all positive), but I had to talk immediately about one thing.  The food.
I always joke about marketers and food.  It’s our currency.  It’s how [...]

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The BIG BAG and a call to marketers

Wiley author Daniel Terdiman, who I met for the first time at SXSW, published a great piece revealing exactly what attendees at the conference received when they picked up their badges.  A bag.  A BIG BAG.  A BIG BAG full of stuff. 
As a SXSW newbee, I was surprised when after I got my badge I [...]

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Work is a four-letter-word

This week is a busy one in IT Land.  My company is involved in our tri-annual division wide sales meeting.  It’s being held at a hotel not far from our offices, but it still presents many challenges in terms of commuting and child care arrangements.  I decided not to stay in the hotel, because I [...]

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Is it crap if it’s on your iPod?

I love free stuff.  Who doesn’t really?  Free is good.  Free can be crap, but it’s overshadowed by the fact that it’s free crap and free trumps crap, at least initially.  Which leads me to iTunes.  Every Tuesday, it’s new music day.  Which, as even my daughter knows, means that they put up a couple [...]

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