Verticals Category Archive

IT brands: a pulse check

In our very first survey of PJA’s new Global Online IT Panel, we turned up some interesting data about the state of IT decision-makers today.
To keep it simple, we asked only 3 questions: which technology brands do you love, which drive you nuts, and what’s your biggest IT challenge today? This post will cover the [...]

The C Team is less a team than you might think

An interesting article in June’s CIO Asia points up a fact that still goes unacknowledged from time to time: just because a bunch of executives sit in over-sized offices along a cosseted mahogany row called The C Suite doesn’t mean that the communicate well or even see eye-to-eye on most matters.
It shouldn’t be so surprising, [...]

BRICs on the Beach

It’s summer, I’m told, and this year we packed up the dogs as well as my sister and her son (my brother-in-law was in waiting for my niece’s arrival back from doing the Silk Road thing in China), and headed for Inverness, Nova Scotia. The beach there is pretty swell, but you have to be [...]

Welcome to Google, your second home page

One of the fine folks from Avenue A/Razorfish dropped this bon mot in a recent presentation to a client we share, and it got me thinking that a disconnect still exists between many BtoB companies and how much they should be devoting to search. As a client put it to her own eMarketing team, “We [...]

Frailty, Thy Name is Non-Transparency

Transparency. Everywhere you look, you can see it – well actually, you can see through it. The point is, it is a buzzword that has a lot of traction in any industry that is bounded by trust. It’s especially important to marketers and is the hallmark of various channels of social media. If a [...]