“When I die, I want to go like my grandfather. Peacefully. In his sleep. Not screaming like the passengers in his car.” A great joke delivered by my brand new colleague: Watson. Maybe a far out use case of a cognitive assistant for the marketer, but a bit of humour in this professional world does […]
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When was the last time you saw an ad from a brand you are engaging with online and had to wonder – don’t they know I am not interested in that or even worse that I have that product already? Seeing bad and bland advertisements follow me around has become quite annoying and it is
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I have a simple theory: nobody really reads emails (anymore). I have a simple test I do with clients when I visit them – I ask them to remember the last time they have not only read an email end to end, but then also went ahead and bought something. Most of these people work
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It’s October 2016 and I am finally getting a drone. It has taken some time to make that decision, but who would have known that it would be such a hard one. Reason? Well – I was dead set on my DJI drone of choice, but then Karma happened. Just look at this amazing video
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“The new era of marketing begins now” – a bold claim. Especially when it is in a marketing manifesto (which you can have a look at here).
Ever since having moved to the other end of the world – Australia – I have begun to embrace my new home also in my free time – by picking up surfing. I never thought that I would write about my new passion and reference it in my business life, but let me try
Spike Jonze is a visionary director and in his film ‘HER‘ he foresaw an interesting future for cognitive assistants. If you have not seen this all time favourite of mine, do yourself a favour and watch it. No matter how far away (and crazy) the notion to actually fall in love with a virtual assistant
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https://youtu.be/XHKHi9ItiKY “When you travel you want your needs to be understood – no matter where you go” says Lisa Seacat DeLuca in the ad above. Something I can very much relate to.
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It is hardly news that The North Face partnered with IBM to include Watson in the shopping experience. You get asked a simple, but yet very powerful question: Where and when will you be using this jacket?
Watch out – it is going to get a lot more personal! Read More »
We have lost another game to the AI – and what all of that has to do with marketing… After loosing the first game against a computer in 1952 (noughts and crosses), followed by checkers in 1994.
That was a very surprising move! Read More »
A recent comment from a good friend of mine made me go through a bit of my own data. He said that in 2015 he flew over 94 times. That is a lot. Since I moved to Australia I travel a lot too. But how much? All the data I could still get from my
Up in the air – a year of flying in review Read More »
“Marketers want to make better decisions.” A phrase I use in almost all of my presentations. But after reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner Daniel Kahneman, I am once more reminded of the fact that the right decision or a better decision is not always easy. Why? Because humans are
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