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Alterian’s head of marketing, passionate about unlocking organisations digital marketing potential with technology and also unlocking individuals digital potential to help grow the companies social capital and their own.

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Bob Barker

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Wake up and smell the digital coffee – the Digital Business Britain Manifesto launched today

The biggest motivator for me to get involved in creating this Manifesto was that when people talk about the digital future they talk about broadband in the home, but they ignore the potential for business. By doing this they also ignore the people within those businesses, who’s digital competence and mindsets are needed to compete in the global digital economy, ...

How to operationalize Social Media – The 10 ways we are trying….

As social media processes become more of a requirement for marketing, I thought I’d share a list of 10 ways that we at Alterian are working on the shift to building a social media business, based on our own experience: Regular Brand Monitoring/Listening reports for management Building a Listening Centre for service PR Crisis Management processes Corporate guidelines and SM ...

Social Media and your brand – it’s all about how you play the game

Today sees the release of the world’s first Social Media Reputation Index. Alterinan Partner Yomego, crunched the data with Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool and the results make for interesting reading

It’s not Engaging Times, yet – Alterian Annual Survey

It’s somewhat alarming that nearly 80% of the marketers surveyed in the Alterian Annual Survey admit they are concerned their brand is at risk from not being engaged with customers. At least the majority say they recognize the problem areas and are taking actions to rectify them, such as dedicating a larger portion of the marketing budget toward the social/digital ...

Operationalizing large scale engagement: Insights from Don Peppers

Who’s responsible for engagement? – a strategic issue in any organisation. In this video Don Peppers discusses the two main organisation challenges related to this: 1. If its really about the organization becoming customer centric because the customer is important to every part of the business, then should the person responsibility for the overall profitability of a specific customer own ...

Top marketers share their thoughts on measurement, value and ROI

Or rather is it Return On Customer?, find out in this video blog. Don Peppers explains the principles of Return on Customer and that one has to maximise value around the customer as it is the customers who are the scare resource these days. Stan Rapp then picks up on that theme talking about what a “friend” of the brand ...

Unlocking the power of Marketing Data for Cisco

Cisco Systems explains how they use Alterian’s Engine database technology to manage their global marketing database, and give the insight their executives need to make better and quicker decisions.