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Marketoonist: Designing for mobile

Marketoonist: Designing for mobile

Career marketer and cartoonist Tom Fishburne quotes Brian Solis on designing for mobile first, “While mobile is often referred to as the second screen, the reality is that smartphones are really the first screen among connected consumers. Itā€™s always within reach. And, it is the first place consumers go to communicate, research, and share…”

Brian Solis Offers Best Practices for Delivering Micro Moments on Ciscoā€™s Connected Futures Site

Brian Solis Offers Best Practices for Delivering Micro Moments on Ciscoā€™s Connected Futures Site

  Solis is featured and quoted throughout Kevin Delaneyā€™s article ā€œDefying Demographics: Todayā€™s Hyperconnected Consumer ā€˜Generationā€™ā€ on Ciscoā€™s Connected Futures site. Solis is introduced into the piece defining his concept of Generation C: ā€œā€œGeneration C is a concept I developed to categorize this new connected customer.ā€ Unlike traditional demographic groups, Solis explains, Gen C is ā€œpsychographicā€ ā€” defined not by age, geography, or income, but by behavior. That is, digital behavior. Its members could include your precocious pre-teen or your…

Customer Experience Should Be Designed For And Measured By What Customerā€™s Actually Experience

Customer Experience Should Be Designed For And Measured By What Customerā€™s Actually Experience

Customer experience (CX) is the new black and it is, for all intents and purposes, the catalyst for accelerated and purposeful digital transformation. In my research however, I find that customer experience is not truly a customer-first initiative. It is in many cases relegated to enterprise-first approaches to improve customer flowĀ from an infrastructure perspective. It’s not necessarily something I’m calling out as a problem. Optimizing customer journeysĀ is indeed necessary. But, it is not a means to an end. It is…

Why the future of corporate marketing may hang on the personal brand

Why the future of corporate marketing may hang on the personal brand

Guest post by Mark W. Schaefer (@markwschaefer) I hate the term ā€œpersonal branding.ā€ And yet, personal branding may be the salvation of corporate marketing. Allow me to explain today why both statements are true! For the past few years Iā€™ve been immersed in the world of personal branding as I wrote my new book KNOWN: The Handbook for Building and Unleashing Your Personal Brand in the Digital Age. I started the process by exploring what the experts thought it meant…

Why tech companies are uniting to fight Trumpā€™s immigration ban

Why tech companies are uniting to fight Trumpā€™s immigration ban

In February 2017, My good friend Matt Kapko of CIO asked a few tech pundits, “Why tech companies are uniting to fight Trumpā€™s immigration ban?” The result was published here. A group of 127 technology companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Snap and Twitter, filed an amicus brief (official friend-of-the-court brief) in the pending lawsuits opposing the administration’s executive order. Per the filing, the heavy hitting tech consortium attested that immigration is core to technology innovation. ā€œImmigrants make many…

10 Things Modern Digital Commerce Players are Doing To Thrive and Survive

10 Things Modern Digital Commerce Players are Doing To Thrive and Survive

The future of commerce is already unfolding. Even though everyone says, “yes we know the world is changing,” I don’t believe that executives have shiftedĀ their thinking or belief system to change how they make decisions toĀ compete differently. The challenge is that many decision-makersĀ are caught in a state of “future shock,” stuck in the past and unable to move in ways that matter to an incessantly evolving market. Why? Because they still operate in an ecosystem that prioritizes quarter-to-quarter performance while…

Customer Experience is the New Marketing and Customer Experiences are the New Brand

Customer Experience is the New Marketing and Customer Experiences are the New Brand

My friends Rob Cottingham, Gerard Francis CorbettĀ and I have had some fun lately. One way to gain perspective on our modern reality is to do so through humor. So when a severalĀ big brands in the beverage, transportation, banking and airline industries were suddenly in the global media hot seat, we had a laugh and productive conversations behind the scenes. As a result,Ā we set out toĀ build upon these unfortunateĀ opportunities with a couple of pithy but poignant cartoonsĀ hoping toĀ spark a bigger dialogue….

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