The fine volunteers and staff of the Business Marketing Association are doing a great job recapping the event so far. Here is the link to the official BMA Social Media site at http://www.marketing.org/unlearnlive for links to twitter updates (#bma09), blog postings and official recaps. Here are my quick thoughts. Someone said it best when commenting […]
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What is the value of the national infrastructure? What value do people get from being members rather than just attending events? How do we attract new corporate marketing members and leaders? Should there be a focused effort at attracting “millennials” to BMA and b-to-b marketing. Those were some of the main topics discussed at
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We will be blogging and tweeting from this year’s national Business Marketing Association Conference being held in Chicago this year starting June 10. Probably more tweeting than blogging, but we’ll see how the week goes. I have been to many national BMA conferences, especially within the last 10 years. It was always exciting when we
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Here are some final thoughts, but also some summary comments since we want this blog to live for a while for people interested in the reasons we made our trip to India during February 2009.First, BlueSilver Inc. is a marketing consultancy that uses a variety of resources to help develop and execute marketing and marketing
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We had a great trip to India to visit our design production and programming partner, Basil. But it sure is nice to be home and back in Chicago – even though we had to experience a nearly 50 degree difference in temperature. Over the next day or two, we will be summarizing our trip
We are having some great dialogue today with Basil executives and the agency that is visiting from the United States. One hot topic is about potential challenges and obstacles. In short, people get used to working in certain ways. And when looking at any kind of change, many things come into play and get in
Agencies need to start exploring global production sources and bring solutions to their clients before they get an e-mail from procurement telling them they must explore global resources, or worse mandate a particular organization to work with off shore. For Fortune 500 marketers, you also want to stay ahead of procurement and work with
BlueSilver founder and CEO Sanjeev Ahuja and N Krishna Kumar, Basil‘s Chief Operating Officer, collaborate on an RFP response at Basil headquarters in Bangalore.
We have had a fantastic trip so far, but meeting with our partners at Basil is the main reason for our long journey. It is great to be here and we are looking forward to a productive 24 hours. They have very cool space in the AVS industrial corridor of Bangalore. They have been at
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So who is Basil and how does BlueSilver work with their team in Bangalore? Basil is a creative design production and programming studio that BlueSilver represents in the United States. BlueSilver also uses Basil services for current consulting clients who have various print production and programming needs. The full scope of services through Basil includes
