Remove startup

Chris Koch

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How customers will react to a crisis in your company and what to do about it

Chris Koch

Meanwhile, when startup airline ValuJet suffered a series of safety problems and a fatal crash in the late 90s, it quickly changed its name to AirTran. If the crisis is seen as being morally averse, or causes harm in ways that seem ethically and morally averse to the average person, it will affect the pace and depth of losses.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Robot I’d Have a Beer with – After He Takes My Job

Chris Koch

And he lets humans invade his personal space whenever they want to manipulate his arms to teach him new things to do. and a better education and now you’ve got a robot that could fit in at any Silicon Valley startup. And he just lets them do it! What a wimp. I’m not having a beer with Baxter anytime soon.

Startups 100
article thumbnail

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. IT and business buyers are flocking to social media more rapidly than anyone would have imagined even a few years ago.