Can big brands learn from Uber, Kickstarter, Airbnb and the Maker Movement? Yes, they can. They’re using the same strategies as those startups to connect to their markets and they are doing it at a rapid pace. The Collaborative Economy is a movement. People are … Continue readingStudy: How Corporations are Deploying in the Collaborative Economy
Brands Focused on Managing Social Proliferation For those that like to be where they money be, this data is for you. Altimeter’s research continues to survey buyers of disruptive technologies, and continues our coverage on social technologies. In our recent Q4 survey to enterprise buyers, … Continue readingSocial Business Buyers Invest in Scaling
Altimeter Data Above: Social spreads further to the edges in Hub and Spoke, and Distributes to Multiple Hub and Spoke, aka “Dandelion” Social Business Evolution Spreads In Corporations Altimeter’s most recent social business buyers survey of global national corporations with over 1000 employees has yielded … Continue readingAltimeter Research: Social Business Spreads Across The Enterprise
This latest Altimeter Report, by my colleague Industry Analyst Chris Silva, focuses on how companies must develop a mobile marketing strategy. It sources research from 26 ecosystem contributors including brands, agencies, and technology providers. To learn more about this report, please register for the webinar … Continue readingHey Retailers! Refine That Mobile Marketing Strategy (Altimeter Report)
Research reveals corporations to focus on integration, staffing, advertising, and measurement in 2011. I’m sharing these slides as I take the stage for one of the few business focused tracks at the largest European internet conference, LeWeb (pic). The following slides are based on the … Continue readingSlides: Social Business Forecast: 2011 The Year of Integration (LeWeb Keynote)
Part 1: External Goals Part 2: Internal Goals (You are here) This is part 2/2, yesterday, I released research discussing the priorities companies have for external also known as ‘go to market’. To balance out the data, Altimeter Group has posed similar questions to Corporate … Continue readingAnalysis: 2011 Internal Goals In Corporate Social Strategy: Proving Value and Change Management (2/2)
CMOs must approach social technologies in an integration fashion Although social technologies have been capturing marketers time for over four+ years in corporate, they’ve often been operated in a silo as experimental, or a separate deployment from traditional marketing. Yet the savvy marketing leader knows … Continue readingCMO Matrix: How Social Technology Must Integrate with Traditional Marketing, a Horizontal Approach
Data is important. It helps us to guide our decisions based on facts –not just gut instinct. Lately, this data from eMarketer (thanks Scott Monty) has been floating around the web, and I want to add my own thoughts. Having conducted similar trust research, or … Continue readingAnalysis: Consumers Trust Friends, Brands, and Independents (eMarketer data)
A Collaborative Effort Between Two Firms: Web Analytics Demystified and Altimeter Group It’s just been over a month since we published the Social CRM Research paper (over 36k views on slideshare) and we’re continuing our cadence here at Altimeter Group of publishing widely available reports … Continue readingAltimeter Report: Social Marketing Analytics (Altimeter Group & Web Analytics Demystified)
The Altimeter Group was pre-briefed by Twitter COO Dick Costolo last week about this upcoming launch, we’ve had some time to think over what it means to the industry. Help your boss fight through the clutter, send them this post. Summary: Twitter has launched Promoted … Continue readingFirst Take Analysis: What Twitter’s “Promoted Tweets” Means To The Ecosystem
