Chris Koch

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2011: The year of personal brands

Chris Koch

This is the year that the personal brand begins to do battle with the corporate brand. I think we need to let the personal brand win—especially in B2B. It’s relevant but still a step removed from the truly personal connection. Then as marketers, we create a virtuous cycle that links these personal brands to the corporate brand.

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15 things marketers should stop doing and thinking in 2011

Chris Koch

Creating a temporary virtual community in the run up to an event to inform and liven up in-person meetings at the event. What things do you wish we would stop doing and saying in 2011? A few examples of things that ITSMA clients did this year: Combining a live event with a virtual event to extend the reach of both. Tweet This Post.

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How social media muteness endangers your company: The crisis at McKinsey

Chris Koch

However, our early-2011 survey of more than 1,300 employers across industries, geographies, and employer sizes, as well as other proprietary research, found that reform will provoke a much greater response.”. It’s ironic, but there is a person who could have responded to this controversy in a very interesting way.