Archive for March, 2009

Reaching Your Full Revenue Potential

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

It appears that lack of existing customer insight and the tools to leverage that insight is creating a revenue roadblock for many marketers.

Despite the critical need to leverage current customer knowledge, especially during this recessionary period, many marketers are throwing up their own obstacles to reaching solid, ready-and-waiting opportunities.

Instead of concentrating on and maximizing their existing customer potential, too many marketers are spending their limited resources on acquiring new customers, while allowing their existing customers to fall by the roadside. What a huge waste. (more…)

The Unthinkable Community Driven Marketing

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Clay Shirky’s latest essay, that encourages us to ‘think the unthinkable’, set me wondering about what the marketing industry could be like.  The part of Shirky’s ‘unthinkable scenario’ that leapt out for me was the suggestion that, ‘people would resist being educated to act against their own desires’.

Shirky is, of course, saying that one effect of a networked world is that people have less faith in the lessons being handed out on Madison Avenue.  Now it’s quite clear that media is still the dominant force in the brand and marketing business, which despite tough times, remains a trillion dollar global industry. (more…)