by Mark O'Brien | Sep 18, 2015
I got the scare of my life this morning. While reading through my various feeds, I saw this headline: “5 Ways Cloud-Based EPM is Altering the Landscape of the Business World”. I suddenly imagined the business world being decimated by equine protozoal...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 17, 2015
People are coming back into vogue, at least in marketing. And I can prove it. Since I’m a believer in the cyclical nature of all things, I knew people would reappear in marketing. I didn’t know when. But I did know why: Data doesn’t buy anything....
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 16, 2015
As Victor Frankenstein discovered, sometimes you don’t know you’re creating a monster until it’s been on its feet for a while. And, as young Vic also found out, once it’s up and around, getting rid of it might pose something of a...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 15, 2015
If you read as much as I do, you can be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of content being pumped out daily. But if you’re anything like me, you’ve discovered that, like the effort required to find the figurative needle in the proverbial haystack,...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 10, 2015
Sometimes LinkedIn posts are as valuable for what they don’t say as they are for what they do say. Case in point: Jeffrey Strickland, Ph.D., CMSP (which stands for County Medical Services Program, California Motorcyclist Safety Program, Custom Medical Stock...
by Mark O'Brien | Sep 9, 2015
I’m really worried about the future. More specifically, I’m really worried about the future of marketing. A vague sense of uneasiness morphed into full-blown agita when I read something called, “The New Marketing Leader”. I don’t know who...