B2B Marketing Trends for 2013

1.  Technology Matters: Every marketer needs to understand technology.  Increasingly, digital marketing IS marketing, and having the right technology will make the difference.  Many senior (read "old") marketers are afraid of digging into...

Webinar Recording “The Economics of Free”

I recently gave a webinar entitled The Economics of Free.  My host, Vindicia, is the leading provider of SaaS billing and marketing systems for digital content and services providers, and it was a lot of fun to field questions from their customers, who include dating...

What Salesforce.com Can Teach Us

I just finished reading Marc Benioff's book Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry.  While it wasn't exactly a story (it was more of a list of short blurbs,...

New Podcast Available on Freemium

Freemium is not a business model.  It is a marketing tactic, and can be used effectively for 3 primary purposes:  to build awareness and trial, to serve as a customer acquisition engine through referrals, or to help a business achieve a networked...

Palo Alto: Freemium Event

I will be hosting and moderating the following event.  The planned location isn't big enough to accomodate the crowd, so we are moving to a bigger space, likely also at the Faculty Club.  Please let me know if you plan to be there, so i can say hello!...