• Blogs, Webinar and Free: best rated tactics for quality demand creation

    Generating buzz seems to be the holy grail quest for marketers nowadays. But when comes the time to report to your management “how did it go?”, we’re expected to show some business opportunities, leads, and influencers logged into our tracking systems The number of seminar attendees won’t make it anymore. ROI, dashboards and key success… Read more

  • User-Generated Marketing (UGM): fad, buzz word or core to Marketing 2.0 ?

    Aren’t you blasé in front of the constant coined terms alluvion attached to marketers discovering new ideas. So here is a new one: User-Generated Marketing a.k.a. UGM – it even has its own acronym! iMedia Connection reports on what advertisers say about UGM. I get the impression, when reading these lines, that most of them… Read more

  • Beer goes open source and Free ! Marketing 2.0 is here

    http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5606324897099206578 A short clip from the 2006 Creative Commons iSummit in Rio de Janeiro. Watch Minister of Culture and musical legend Gilberto Gil toast to Creative Commons with the specially brewed, Danish “Free Beer.”Some Rights Reserved. Available under the Creative Commons Attribution License (Brazil) 2.5. We discussed here about the open source in software as… Read more

  • Did brand positioning change with Web 2.0 ?

    Coming back on how Dell is managing its customer service and the negative buzz happening in the U.S.- see Don’t you ever get Dell’d – , marketers should consider these emerging opinion bloggers as a clear indication of a brand perception shift and act upon it. As Business Week is reporting, Dell strategy is shifting… Read more

  • Today it’s Bastille Day, let’s share

    Today is Bastille day in Paris. I’m lucky enough to enjoy the beauty of this city at night, especially yesterday night when fireworks gave the Eiffel Tower a special touch. So let’s take a break and enjoy Flickr, one of the most remarkable Web 2.0 killer app not only because of the contributions volume it… Read more

  • Free is good for our business Mr CEO

    As I was highlighting in Web 2.0 goes world wide, the hype and laser speed explosion of Web 2.0 in the US is now widely making it in Europe. Here is an interesting first edition of The Next Web conference that took place in Amsterdam last week – July 7 – reinforcing my claim. No… Read more