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Infographic: The Facebook Power User

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Today’s the day! Facebook will officially be a $100 billion property, skyrocketing the company to the top of the most valuable companies in the United States. Quite honestly, I wouldn’t buy a single share if I were in a position to. I may be naive, but I don’t think there are enough humans on the Earth to sustain growth enough to recoup the investment with some good profits. I believe they simply waited to long. But I digress. There’s no doubt that, with 900 million members, that Facebook is the … Continue reading →

Video: Innovation is Achieved by Solving Problems

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On Friday, I was provided an amazing opportunity to participate in Compendium’s Innovation Summit. Under the leadership of President Frank Dale, with an idea from Blake Matheny, and with the support of founder Chris Baggott and Sales VP Scott Blezcinski, the company took a “time out” from working and, instead devoted a day to innovation. Chris started out the initiative with the amazing story of how he failed in one business, but after identifying the problem, built another amazing company – ExactTarget. The key to his story is that innovation … Continue reading →

SaaS Shifts to Offer Database as a Service

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A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of listening to ExactTarget Chief of Operations, Scott McCorkle, speak to the evolution of their platform. I’ve written in the past that I believe Email Service Providers have jumped the shark – and it appears the forward-thinking ESPs have already taken note. Scott spoke to ExactTarget’s goal of being the Marketing Hub for companies. Instead of simply being a send engine for email, ExactTarget is pushing to be the database of record for many of its clients with the following goals: Data … Continue reading →

It Is Not the Critic Who Counts

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends … Continue reading →

Why ExactTarget and CoTweet Makes Sense

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At first I was a bit shocked by the news, ExactTarget and CoTweet? Email and Twitter? They seemed like distant cousins to me, I didn’t exactly get it. Tonight I spoke to Chris Baggott, co-founder of ExactTarget and now CEO of Compendium Blogware. Chris couldn’t say enough great things about the move, was incredibly excited for Scott Dorsey… and explained how it really does make sense: Email and Twitter are not unlike one another. They are both opt-in and push-style communication methods. CoTweet is an enterprise management system for Twitter, … Continue reading →

ExactTarget Connections 09: Success By Design

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More to come this week on ExactTarget, but today’s opening of Connections ’09 was an incredible event. Being a prior employee of this incredible organization, I’ve participated in previous events and each year the ExactTarget team seems to out do the year before. I spent the morning down in the vendor and partners conference center. There were some familiar companies as well as some new ones. Joel Book pointed out the folks at Digital Evolution Group, who have actually integrated a print on demand system with ExactTarget. Here’s a quick … Continue reading →