The Steve Jobs rule “stay hungry, stay foolish” was directed at college grads but it also applies to startups; although for startups to evolve–thinking outside the box has to be coupled with […]
Jack Nargundkar
High-tech marketing is always a constant compromise between logical left-brain analytics and creative right-brain activities. Jack has been living this struggle his entire working career, which he began as a software geek after graduating with a BSEE degree from Bombay University. To hone his marketing skills, Jack went on to pursue an MBA degree from Columbia Business School in New York City. Jack has since gained wide-ranging marketing experience from working at start-ups to Fortune 500 companies in the global IT, Defense & Space, and Telecommunications industries.
In the past few years, Jack has focused on developing integrated marketing strategies and plans that incorporate a judicious mix of inbound and outbound marketing techniques. In addition to being a self-published author, Jack has been recognized for outstanding analytical and communications skills, authoring technical articles (self and ghosted) in numerous trade publications and editorial opinions in Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
Marketing & Management Lessons from “Steve Jobs” Biography–“This was a man!”
After reading Walter Isaacson’s biography, “Steve Jobs,” The Marketing Id has come to the conclusion that Steve Jobs was the real “iMan” after all. Maybe not the original “I-man”–that title probably still belongs […]
Top 5 B2B Concerns As Social Media Advertising Scales
The Marketing Id came across a very fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal recently, “Big Brands Like Facebook, But They Don’t Like to Pay,” pertaining largely to the consumer domain. Nonetheless, […]
Top 10 Social Media & Inbound Marketing Tips for the B2B Marketer
Social media is to sharing, what Google is to searching and GPS is to driving. It is important that B2B marketers not fall into the 80-20 trap of social media, where 80% […]
Attention B2Bs! Is your marketing mix social?
After Marc Benioff asked during his opening keynote address at Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco, “Customers and employees are social. Are enterprises social?” The Marketing Id responded with an enthusiastic “Welcome to […]
Top 5 Ways to Ensure a Customer Awaits at the End of Your Funnel
The Marketing Id has blogged previously about how a proactive B2B always finds light at the end of the tunnel. It’s called Revenue Performance Management and it helps a B2B to more predictively manage […]
