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Reflection on AcWriMo 2012

Phew! I survived AcWriMo 2012, a month long initiative of focused academic writing (more information here). My pledge for AcWriMo was to write 100 minutes every day and to produce 6 specific outputs, including revising and resubmitting one paper, writing a book review and working on other articles. In the end, I wrote an average … Continue reading Reflection on AcWriMo 2012

Big data – What every marketer needs to know

Here is a first for me: while I do share my presentations here on the blog, I usually upload the slide set after the events, only.   This time, though, I am doing it the other way around. Below is the slide set for a presentation that I am doing at the Oxford Brookes University … Continue reading Big data – What every marketer needs to know

Gratitude in marketing

My twitter feed is reminding me that, today, North America celebrates Thanksgiving. It is a festival of religious origins encouraging people to be thankful for the good things and the opportunities in their lives – more information is available here. I thought this would be just the right excuse to tell you about some research … Continue reading Gratitude in marketing

Diffusion of Innovations

In the summer of 2000, I did my MBA internship with a management consultancy company based in Barcelona – level of 34 of this building, actually. I was part of a multi-national team advising a major telecommunications company bidding for third-generation (3G) mobile-phone licenses across Europe. That year, several governments had been auctioning 3G licences … Continue reading Diffusion of Innovations

If Darwin were a marketer he wouldn’t publish in a top journal

‘If Darwin were a marketer he wouldn’t publish in a top journal’ – that’s the observation made by a member of the audience at a recent presentation on the criteria for publishing at top marketing publication, Journal of Marketing. In a refreshingly frank and pragmatic session, Professor Gary Frazier, editor of the Journal of Marketing, … Continue reading If Darwin were a marketer he wouldn’t publish in a top journal

You say potato – or the project that nearly wasn’t

I recently presented to colleagues the findings from a study that I have been working on, looking at segmentation and social media. Data collection took place in the summer and autumn of 2011 and we interviewed 28 senior managers. By all accounts, this was a really good number of interviews and the findings were most … Continue reading You say potato – or the project that nearly wasn’t

The state of segmentation and customer engagement research

What does digital mean for the development of target market strategy, segmentation and customer engagement? That’s what several academics discussed today at a workshop combining the interest of two of the Academy of Marketing’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs): the Market Segmentation and Target Market Strategy SIG and the newly formed SIG in Customer Relationship Management … Continue reading The state of segmentation and customer engagement research

Google data centre

We get so accustomed to the technology that we use everyday that we stop questioning how it works. We forget how amazing it is, as I discuss in this post. One of those amazing technical developments are search engines. They revolutionised how we obtain information about people, places, products, organisations, events... So, I thought I … Continue reading Google data centre

Sandy and Social Media

If anyone doubted that Social Media is now a key means of communication, s/he only had to look at the advice by the US's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with regards to Hurricane Sandy. Several hours before the Hurricane was due to arrive on the US's East Coast, FEMA posted the following tweet: #Sandy tip: Phone lines … Continue reading Sandy and Social Media