Last week, Wix engaged in some “guerilla marketing” by sending a number of prominent influencers some very nice Bose noise-cancelling headphones, and a link to a bizarre “secret” site with a “parody” video of a fictitious communique from “WordPress” to Read more…
Last time around in my 2020 predictions, I did reasonably well, so I’m going to be a little bolder in my 2021 set. To be clear, I think some of these may be a little too early (i.e. ad network Read more…
This is Part 2, where I cover some of the trends that I missed in 2020. Part 1 is here and is reviewing some of my 2020 predictions. Part 3 will cover predictions for 2021. Front-end-as-a-service One of the big Read more…
Clearly, 2020 has been a year unlike any other (at least in my working lifetime). Interestingly, while the “real world” has been turned upside down by the covid-19 pandemic, much of the marketing technology landscape remains either unchanged, or accelerated. Read more…
Note: This blog entry originally appeared as a guest post for Boye & Co. – a group for industry experts to exchange opinions and experiences. As noted, it is a continuation of a previous post – which you may want Read more…
Note: This blog entry originally appeared as a guest post for Boye & Co. – a group for industry experts to exchange opinions and experiences. It was a lot of fun to collaborate with Janus on getting the topic nailed Read more…
As of this writing on March 19th, large portions of the world are in lockdown or in the process of moving to that state. It is an extremely sad reality that many tourism, hospitality, and services companies and entire industries Read more…
Personalization has always been one of the major talking points in Web Content Management – with an ever escalating arms race between vendors who have put massive investment in making personalization more complex, more powerful, more rules, simpler, faster, better Read more…
Last year, I left Sitecore after more than 8 years. When I joined, they were a 200-person company at the forefront of WCM technology (they weren’t even on any analyst reports!). I grew along with the company from a Sales Read more…
Warren Buffet famously spoke of “economic moats” when investing in companies. The idea being there are “defensible” competitive advantages to that company which make it difficult for newer players to compete. An example would be the massive network effects of Read more…