Alex Woodruff Biz Buzz

Modern marketing is keen to embrace customisation, especially online. With an increasing number of tools to track the surfing habits of users, work out where they are, and work out what interests them, marketeers are exploring whole new avenues of “match the message to the audience”.
This is all part of one-to-one marketing: tailoring the [...]

Two recent examples of how listening to the much revered customer does not always go right - especially if they take over your marketing for you! And using Web 2.0 and inviting online junkies to define tactics …?

Online geeks hijack P for Product.Source: flickr
We’ll start in Australia. The Land of Plenty. This includes Vegemite, a [...]

Online, and pushing the new service
Pons, which English dictionary users will know more as Collins, has finally taken the plunge and not only gone online, they’re openly advertising the fact.
This will have been a tough decision for a company that sees itself as a seller of books. In strategic terms it represents a small [...]

Well if this isn’t official, what is:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7359927.stm
The world of blogs, mashups, podcasting, RSS, social networking, widgets and wikis is set to hit global marketing, big time. So when are German companies going to wake up to this…? Or have they done so already?
I decided to search for signs of Web 2.0ism at five big names [...]

Having already posted on the progressive marketing skills of the Bavarian beer-loving Pope, I am pleased to see his publicity bandwaggon is accelerating. In preparation for his 2008 tour of the United States, he’s gone and got himself a logo.

I love that fetching yellow sweeping arch. It expresses all the dynamism and forward-looking zap you’d [...]

In 1963 Kennedy made a promise to the American people that the US would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. Sadly he was never there to see it happen, but his proud scientists did it. It took billions in investment, with money thrown almost recklessly at “getting it right [...]

In assessing the impact on the marketing environment made by technology change, Kotler describes a somewhat unexpected chain of trends, products and markets created by the invention of the condom and contraceptive pill. In fact some claim contraception was one of the most influential inventions on mankind in the whole of the 20th century.
The chain:
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