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Give Us Freedom! Lessons for Corporate America

Digital B2B Marketing

In late 2009, Bob Evans, then with Information Week, wrote an open letter to Larry Ellison , taking Oracle to task for not allowing companies the freedom to control their own expense structures. With a long-term view, freedom to choose is winning over lock in models. To lock in a customer with an unmatched offering for their needs?

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Is Social Conversation a Myth?

Convince & Convert

The increasing prevalence of social media is creating a lock step increase in uni-directional social media chest thumping. August 31st, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Mitch Joel , whose blog and work I greatly admire, wrote a very interesting blog post recently that bemoaned the lack of conversation in social media.

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

Convince & Convert

Indeed, the recently announced integration between Facebook and Amazon shows Facebook’s true intentions in this area – to use the social connectivity data that ONLY Facebook has to power massive advances in customization and relevancy of information on the Web at large. Do You “Like&# Me in Attack Mode?

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

Convince & Convert

Indeed, the recently announced integration between Facebook and Amazon shows Facebook’s true intentions in this area – to use the social connectivity data that ONLY Facebook has to power massive advances in customization and relevancy of information on the Web at large. Do You “Like&# Me in Attack Mode?

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