Chris Koch

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2011: The year of personal brands

Chris Koch

Forrester Research is testing both sides of this argument. Now, awhile back I wrote a post criticizing Forrester’s decision to prevent its analysts from hosting their own personal blogs. It’s a good problem to have, to be grappling with this issue as Forrester is. First you found Forrester, and then you found Owyang.

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Why your marketing to CIOs may be irrelevant—and what to do about it

Chris Koch

When I covered CIOs for 13 years at CIO Magazine, I found that it was very difficult to generalize about the profession, beyond a handful of universal problems such as alignment with the business and the complexities and the voracious needs of the IT infrastructure. Business Strategist. And that has big implications for marketers.

Planning 100
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Why your marketing to CIOs may be irrelevant—and what to do about it

Chris Koch

When I covered CIOs for 13 years at CIO Magazine, I found that it was very difficult to generalize about the profession, beyond a handful of universal problems such as alignment with the business and the complexities and the voracious needs of the IT infrastructure. Business Strategist. And that has big implications for marketers.

Planning 100