Sounds like you are still in product development and in need of really defining who your customers really are. (Actually, in an ideal world, you should know who your customers are before you build, but anyway). Some people call it Customer Development. Basically, you're in the area of defining the real product-market fit.
I know it sounds obvious, but I have many clients that aren't aware that their product doesn't fit the market and just think they need to hire PR people to "get more buzz."
Tech marketing is also different in many ways from traditional brand-focused marketing that consumer products have. Run screaming away from people who will focus on your brand and PR at this stage. What you need to focus on is your positioning, which includes understanding your differentiation, category and competitive situation.
Marketing is great at amplifying success. Hoping that outbound marketing will cover up flaws in strategy and product will always result in failure.
Big Oil is being replaced by Bigger Oil, namely the government-owned or -influenced entities like Gasprom/Rosneft/Lukoil/CNOOC/SINOPEC or other nationalized entities like Petróleos de Venezuela.
What we have now is a dreamworld compared to what's coming soon when nationalistic or patriotic tendencies mix in even more obviously than today.
"It is the shared interest of all nations to act responsibly in ways that emphasize openness and transparency, and help prevent mishaps, misperceptions, and mistrust."
Not if you are the only nation that has this policy.
What is expected of this CTO? Is he supposed to be like the Surgeon General is for healthcare, but without the nifty outfit? Will he be in commercials saying "Hey Kids, Watch Out When You Surf to Pr0n sites?"
Basically Microsoft just peeled off a few bills to give to Facebook to keep it out of Google's hands. They basically can afford to pay out this money without blinking -- and now Facebook has a valuation that's way too rich for it to be acquired or go IPO now.
I don't think Microsoft expects to get this money back. They just basically did it to screw everyone.
That London has basically a Communist mayor (but Labour in name) and the self-proclaimed center of liberalism here in San Francisco is looking to add more of these cameras. Why is it the left-wing areas leading the way here? I thought the Republicans were the enemy of my rights.
There is no moral purpose to insurance. It's a risk mitigation service and arbitrage/investment business model. There is no moral obligation to offering insurance on anything.
Have you ever been to the South? It's actually more progressive than the self-proclaimed liberal city San Francisco WHERE I LIVE. It's about as dogmatic, closeminded and conservative (anti-change) as you can get.
Get over your stereotypes. San Francisco is the bastion of pompous conservatism.
Because there was so much pressure from the press to go after whoever leaked Valerie Plame ("classified" information, apparently), is it wrong for the government to apply the same rules for everything?
The whole push to go attack the Administration on Valerie Plame has now officially backfired on the press. They made their own bed, and now they have to sleep on it.
From a marketing standpoint, Duke Nukem lost its brand effectiveness a long time ago (and arguably morphed into something very negative). It's like releasing Q*bert Reloaded. Who's going to buy this damn thing?
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Right. Just go here:
http://www.inventables.com/
...your marketing needs will differ.
Sounds like you are still in product development and in need of really defining who your customers really are. (Actually, in an ideal world, you should know who your customers are before you build, but anyway). Some people call it Customer Development. Basically, you're in the area of defining the real product-market fit.
I know it sounds obvious, but I have many clients that aren't aware that their product doesn't fit the market and just think they need to hire PR people to "get more buzz."
Tech marketing is also different in many ways from traditional brand-focused marketing that consumer products have. Run screaming away from people who will focus on your brand and PR at this stage. What you need to focus on is your positioning, which includes understanding your differentiation, category and competitive situation.
Marketing is great at amplifying success. Hoping that outbound marketing will cover up flaws in strategy and product will always result in failure.
Big Oil is being replaced by Bigger Oil, namely the government-owned or -influenced entities like Gasprom/Rosneft/Lukoil/CNOOC/SINOPEC or other nationalized entities like Petróleos de Venezuela.
What we have now is a dreamworld compared to what's coming soon when nationalistic or patriotic tendencies mix in even more obviously than today.
"Humans have demonstrated time and time and time again, that they are lazy and reactionary for the most part."
Humans have demonstrated time and time and time again that they spend way too much time disparaging their own kind in a fit of self-hate.
Wow. That must make me CEO at my company.
"It is the shared interest of all nations to act responsibly in ways that emphasize openness and transparency, and help prevent mishaps, misperceptions, and mistrust."
Not if you are the only nation that has this policy.
With so many women using Macs and iPhones, now I understand why you haven't had a date for a while.
Take other classes, like Econ 101. Get a broad education, and with real life applicability.
Plus the chicks are hotter.
John Chambers is now required to grow a neckbeard.
What is expected of this CTO? Is he supposed to be like the Surgeon General is for healthcare, but without the nifty outfit? Will he be in commercials saying "Hey Kids, Watch Out When You Surf to Pr0n sites?"
This is marked as interesting? Regulations benefit those who have lobbying power. And since when do consumers of technology have any lobbying power?
They don't think government can help with anything.
Do you think the government issuing franchises that creates monopolies backed by the power of the state has helped?
Seriously. Does anyone really want to go back to the days before the 1984 consent decree?
Basically Microsoft just peeled off a few bills to give to Facebook to keep it out of Google's hands. They basically can afford to pay out this money without blinking -- and now Facebook has a valuation that's way too rich for it to be acquired or go IPO now.
I don't think Microsoft expects to get this money back. They just basically did it to screw everyone.
That London has basically a Communist mayor (but Labour in name) and the self-proclaimed center of liberalism here in San Francisco is looking to add more of these cameras. Why is it the left-wing areas leading the way here? I thought the Republicans were the enemy of my rights.
There is no moral purpose to insurance. It's a risk mitigation service and arbitrage/investment business model. There is no moral obligation to offering insurance on anything.
I knew there was a reason to use Safari :-)
On in the small community of slashdot do users = programmers.
99.9% of *users* don't care about recompiling the software on their iPhone.
Sheesh.
Have you ever been to the South? It's actually more progressive than the self-proclaimed liberal city San Francisco WHERE I LIVE. It's about as dogmatic, closeminded and conservative (anti-change) as you can get.
Get over your stereotypes. San Francisco is the bastion of pompous conservatism.
N MSN survey has (at the moment I looked at it) 88% out of 482424 respondents saying Bush should be impeached.
Citing an Internet survey as a real poll says more of the person citing it than anything else.
Did you ever try clicking on the "switch back" link? It takes you back to the Y!M classic interface.
Because there was so much pressure from the press to go after whoever leaked Valerie Plame ("classified" information, apparently), is it wrong for the government to apply the same rules for everything?
The whole push to go attack the Administration on Valerie Plame has now officially backfired on the press. They made their own bed, and now they have to sleep on it.
From a marketing standpoint, Duke Nukem lost its brand effectiveness a long time ago (and arguably morphed into something very negative). It's like releasing Q*bert Reloaded. Who's going to buy this damn thing?
RIM's Canadian. Go ask Stephen Harper.
Yeah, like those Chinese factories. They run on switchgrass.
Er no. As noted below, BASIC is so 70's. I would say C and Pascal are so 80's.