Chris Koch

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Should we stop marketing to the CIO?

Chris Koch

Without the IT hairball to lock providers and customers together in a death embrace, the barriers to switching providers will come down. Relationships will matter more after the sale. The cloud means that everything becomes a service. What do you think?

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Want to know which social media tool to bet on? Look at their relationship models.

Chris Koch

Because Twitter has written its own rules for relationships and because by signing up for Twitter we all agree to play by those (new) relationship rules, the trust barrier is effectively removed. The brilliance of the people at Twitter was to realize (or at least hope) that we wouldn’t mind if they changed the rules of relationships on us.

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Want to know which social media tool to bet on? Look at their relationship models.

Chris Koch

Because Twitter has written its own rules for relationships and because by signing up for Twitter we all agree to play by those (new) relationship rules, the trust barrier is effectively removed. The brilliance of the people at Twitter was to realize (or at least hope) that we wouldn’t mind if they changed the rules of relationships on us.