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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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The internet mindset: “its a jungle out there”

One of the key principles in economics is that economies revolve around the concept of the scarcity of  products or resources. With the internet, companies tend to think purely economics also questioning : “how do we make money out of the internet?”, “how can we control the market on the internet?”, “how do we restrict what people say about us ...

Do you have marketing goggles for your website?

As a marketer working in the technology sector for 25 years when I look at our website or indeed any website I immediately pick up on the obvious stuff that probably isn’t working from a marketing and engagement perspective for that webpage e.g. its boring, not engaging, not on brand , the content is out of date, isn’t linked etc.

Heads out of the sand time

Whether or not social media has lived up to expectations of really defining the General Election, there can be no question that it opened the eyes (and ears) of politicians as they realise that they can now not only talk directly to the media without it being misinterpreted, but the public can now answer back, put their view across and, ...

Have you been engaged?

Yesterday over 400 marketing heads and decision makers gathered in London for the inaugural Alterian Engaging Times European Summit. If the twittersphere was anything to go by, and I hope you were following the #engagingtimes hashtag, customer engagement is definitely now on the minds of the brands and agencies that attended.  Highlights for me would have to be marketing legend ...

Are you ready to engage?

The last 18 months has seen some of the most significant changes in the marketing space in decades. As social media has exploded in popularity, businesses have begun to realize that anyone with an internet connection has the ability to damage their brand. Subsequently poorly targeted email campaigns or generic websites are no longer good enough to engage with both ...

How long is 5 minutes?

If you ask a cab company, when you are phoning to find out where your cab is, its at least 10 minutes, if you have arrived to pick up a take-away curry thats not ready probably 15 to 20, and if you on the tarmac at Heathrow waiting for a take off slot, at least 30, make that 45 minutes. ...

Customer Engagement Demystified

The words engagement and customer engagement are beginning to pop up all over the place, in fact I went round the DMA last week in San Diego “Engagement” spotting as only a marketer focused on customer engagement might. So whats new, why all the fuss and generally what does it all mean to the marketer? In order to get a debate ...