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This is the first year where travel and hospitality is a core and strategic vertical. Stats: 50% of your customers start their travel journey with no brand in mind 100% of your customers expect a to be remembered by their airline or hotel This is about “marketing” beyond marketing. In other words, support the entire […]

Today at Adobe Summit, Urosh Pajic and Peter Krmpotic of Adobe spoke about best practices in content optimization with Adobe Experience Manager. Remember the time when it was enough to just put your content out there and gain customer attention? These times are long gone, and today’s customers expect personalized and relevant content across all […]

A key question for a technology vendor is “Do you use your own technology for what you are selling to the rest of us?” It’s often frustrating to me to visit a web content manager’s web site and find that they don’t use their own product to manage the site. At the Adobe Summit, I’m […]

The theme is reinvention. Michael has reinvented himself many times. Starting with standup then on to comedy then on to more serious roles.  Then…….. he was Batman. A recap of today’s Adobe Summit interview: Question: Did you steer your career or did you go with the flow? I started something in college then dropped out. I […]

My notes from an interview with Nate Silver, founder of  FiveThirtyEight.com, at Adobe Summit: Question: When did you say you could have a profession in number and stats? I don’t know when really but I took a boring consulting job right out of college.  In my spare time I started working on a program to […]

Highlights from Adobe Summit’s Day 2 session with Steve Young and Collin Resch: Question: If you were still playing, would you throw to Richard Sherman? In college, everyone was open. In the pros, no one was open.  To me, I don’t care who is out there. If you are open, you are getting the football. […]

With any Digital Transformation journey, various groups within your company need to coalesce together in order to move the organization forward.  Adobe CIO Gerri Martin-Flickinger spoke about how Adobe had to harmonize their Marketing, IT and Product efforts to ensure their transformation journey was a success.  You can read my blog article about what Adobe […]

At Adobe Summit 2015, Jeff Allen (@JeffreyAAllen) with Adobe presented this session about justifying an investment in analytics. Jeff has developed a model for this over the past 20 years. His mantra comes from Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen: “Instead of telling someone what to think, I taught him how to think.” Here are […]

Sean Dickson (Adobe) and Kathleen (Intuit) presented at Adobe Summit 2015 on identity management. This becomes increasingly important with the proliferation of both channels/devices and services (think all the services in the Adobe Marketing Cloud) Mapping the customer journey and marketing touchpoints in the cross-device ecosystem is critical to understanding the path to conversion. The data management […]

Russell Lewis (Adobe) and Daniel Stubs (Conde Nast) spoke at Adobe Summit 2015 about how to combine a variety of tools for a personalized experience. A testing solution and personalization engine are only as effective as the quality of data fed to them. Combine the powerful data aggregation and audience mining capabilities of Adobe AudienceManager […]