A Day in the Life of a CIO

At last week’s TechTarget ROI Summit in San Francisco, Marilou Barsam, SVP of Client Consulting and Corporate Marketing at TechTarget, shared the results of a Spring 2010 survey of what TechTarget calls the “hyper-active researcher.”  Key findings...

The confusion regarding the word “campaign”

I often ask marketers to tell me about the integrated marketing campaigns they are running. Here are a few common responses: We’ve been running a Google Adwords campaign for the past 2 years. We’ve got a new PR campaign kicking off next week. Our print...

The mousetrap the world has been waiting for?

Conceptually, the theories of persona-building, positioning and messaging are easy to understand.  However, sometimes it’s helpful for a marketing team to critique a real example and then discuss the parallels to their own business.  An example that everyone can...

Building a Persona – The “Skeptical Futurist”

If you are selling to CIOs or IT strategists, you may find this post of interest. (Visit The Marketing High Ground blog for more examples of personas.) Human perception is a tricky thing, for although teams may share a common understanding of their product portfolio,...