Chris Koch

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Want proof that the C-suite is into social media? Here it is.

Chris Koch

And yet our latest annual survey of 355 buyers of complex IT solutions, How Customers Choose Solution Providers, 2009: The Importance of Personalization, Epiphanies, and Social Media, shows that the door to the C-suite is opening up. In fact, it’s hard for most of us to imagine these people using social media at all.

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What Pisses off the Man Who is the Face of 3D Printing

Chris Koch

They retained the information better when they watched the videos than they did when I taught in person,” he recalls. From that base emerged MakerBot in 2009, which was co-founded by Pettis and two others. Viral How-Tos. Not that Pettis was a bad teacher. NYC Resistor is now housed in space upstairs from MakerBot’s Brooklyn factory.

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How Manchester United Revolutionized Sports Marketing

Chris Koch

I would expect that most other similarly ill-informed, old-fart American Boomers who were raised on other sports like me might say the same thing (Stones fans, don’t look for a “London” team to root for because it doesn’t exist). “A Sales of family season ticket plans increased from fewer than 500 in 2009 to more than 7,500 in 2012.

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Why salespeople should sell ideas: an FAQ

Chris Koch

That was in 2009. But I don’t have access to that kind of information. Buyers are spending much more time online than they used to. A (fairly old) study by Forbes and Google found that 80% of C-level executives perform at least three web searches per day. What does online search have to do with selling?

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Where is your mobile marketing center of gravity?

Chris Koch

The classic B2B mobile applications have been internally focused, giving maintenance people access to service information while they are out in the field. One possibility is to use location at your events so that attendees can find each other or share schedules and information. Continuity. B2B mobile marketing case studies.

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6 Freaky, Funny, and Scary Abilities of Computer Organisms

Chris Koch

I intended to write this blog about some of the amazing, helpful, and scary things that robots can do today, but even a quick look at the information out there demonstrates that robot is already an archaic term, like calling a car a horseless carriage. And everyone’s EEG happens to be as unique as a fingerprint.

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Six factors driving B2B social media marketing adoption

Chris Koch

Our latest annual survey of 355 buyers of complex IT solutions, How Customers Choose Solution Providers, 2009: The Importance of Personalization, Epiphanies, and Social Media, shows that the door to the C-suite is opening up. The pool of information they are sifting through contains an increasing amount of social media content.