Last week, I had an argument with a friend about HP’s decision to drop out of the hardware market and their attempts to shift warehouses full of unwanted HP Touchpad stock at the firesale price of £89 (or $99 in the US). I put forward the notion that, with the Touchpad launching with such tepid [...]
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HP Touchpad – the best marketing ploy ever seen?
Posted: 31st August 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, General Content, ProfessionalIt has been just over 24 hours since I was officially announced as Managing Director for Reading Room Manchester. First point of business – a new website! Exciting times lie ahead, most likely with a fair amount of stress and gin. And Greggs.
Properly Positioning Your Proposition
Posted: 19th May 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, ProfessionalI’ll keep this one nice and short. In summary, I was chatting with a friend the other day and we were discussing something she’s working on and the feedback she’d received from a recent panel review of her idea. The upsum was, make sure you’re concentrating on the right people when you’re putting your idea [...]
Gamification in Action
Posted: 19th May 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, ProfessionalI blogged recently about gamification and game theory (actually on my employer’s blog, repeated here). I thought I’d quickly follow that up now with some examples of where this sort of thing is already happening, just so you’re clearer on both the obvious and less obvious instances of such things. Firstly, let’s look at one [...]
Setting Realistic and Strategically Relevant KPIs
Posted: 16th May 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, ProfessionalSomething I see a lot when reading through client briefs and tender documents in general is a list of Key Performance Indicators – essentially a list of what the client will use to measure the success of their new website. When I don’t see them listed, I ask for them as they’re vital in being [...]
Gamification and Game Theory – How It Applies to Your Digital Strategy
Posted: 15th May 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, ProfessionalGamification, and to a lesser extent Game Theory, are terms you’re going to be hearing a lot of over the next six months or so. They are going to be used in the context of digital marketing strategies, and will probably be poorly explained to you. But what actually are they, and should you really [...]
If you’re wondering why the recent EU legislation on cookie usage has come about, it’s basically because of the kind of thing B&Q are doing here. This advert appeared on TVGuide after I went a looked at a few pages of kitchen units on B&Q (diy.com) this morning. I wasn’t actually interested in a new [...]
Realtime Cubic Content Relevance
Posted: 10th May 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, ProfessionalTags: content, realtime relevance, relevance, search, taxonomy
Erm….what? Realtime Cubic Content Relevance is something I came up with whilst holidaying on my own in Melbourne in 2009. I did a lot of walking and thus a lot of thinking. I also scored some mammoth blisters, but that’s besides the point. Realtime Cubic Content Relevance (RCCR) explores the concept of removing the traditional [...]
Geo-Marketing in Digital – Done Right and Wrong
Posted: 10th May 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, ProfessionalI love geo – I think it’s my love of data usage that draws me to concepts that rely on analysis to work. I’ve been working with geo-marketing on and off for a decade across many concepts – my first real foray being an ultimately canned project to do location-based competition marketing via mobile phone [...]
Second Layer Insight – Concept Launch
Posted: 22nd November 2011 by boboshady in Digital Commentary, General Content, ProfessionalI won’t put the full post here, but it’s worth a cross-link – Today I launch the name of something you’re all going to care about in the future. http://boboshady.tumblr.com/post/13156694331/second-layer-insight