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We’re running two webinars in 2 weeks – one for marketing on June 15th and one for sales on June 17th. Each one is focused on how our successful “rainmaker” customers use FirstRain to sell more to their leading customers. If you know more about your major accounts than anyone else, and if it takes [...]
We’re holding two educational webinars in June on how to use strategic intelligence to accelerate revenue – both for marketing or for sales – and Pete Krainik posed a few questions to me for the CMO Club website last week. This is just a preview – if you’d like to join us for a live [...]
We’ve formally announced the research engine to the press today – you can see the press release here. I’ve been briefing editors for a few days now, and expect I will be through this week to. It’s the first time we’ve talked with the press about our new capability and the category “intelligent business search” [...]
Google just entered the world of faceted search, following in Bing’s footsteps, and it’s a good move. John Battelle, wrote a strong piece on what they are doing “Google Steps Gingerly Toward Search As Application” and on why this is a necessary move for Google — to deliver search as an application rather than as [...]
There’s a great example of the impact of a rising trends on companies and regions on the stock research page of Fidelity.com today. You can get to this page here. First look down on the right hand side – you can see the hot topics rising on the web. Not surprisingly Oil and Gas Ecological [...]
We find and analyze management for our customers. It’s one of the most popular things we do. So we know that helping users get a better, richer picture of who matters in the companies and markets they care about is valuable intelligence. Enter from stage left: Salesforce.com buys Jigsaw.com today. Jigsaw has a mixed reputation [...]
Matt Brown from Forrester shared a very interested survey result with me: Forrester surveyed 2,000 US information workers last year, aged 18 to 64, and broke them into two groups for the analysis: GenX and Y (18-43) and Boomers (44-64) . And one area of interest was information workers ability to find what they need [...]
Diversity is a strength – especially in management teams – but it can also lead to tension, misunderstandings and all the challenges that can appear when two people are very different and don’t “get” each other. Years ago it was popular to hire expensive consultants – often called coaches – to work with executive teams [...]
I had the opportunity to speak at the Montgomery Technology conference in Santa Monica yesterday and, as often happens, the experience of presenting FirstRain every half hour for hours was exhilarating. The conference is run by the specialist investment bank – designed for investors to talk with companies – and it attracted about 1,100 people [...]
We’ve been hearing from an increasing number of customers and prospects that they are not only trying to reduce their budget, but specifically trying to reduce their Bloomberg costs or replace Bloomberg altogether and I’m curious as to what’s really going on behind this. Bloomberg has the premier platform today. It’s known for the deepest [...]
