In his 1954 book, “The Practice of Management,” management guru, Peter Drucker, famously declared: Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two–and only two–basic functions: […]
The War on Cyber Terror—the Future of Business Depends on the Business of the Future!
Back in December 2013, Steve Durbin, global vice-president of the Information Security Forum (ISF), outlined the top security threats for 2014, which The Marketing Id has paraphrased below: BYOD (Bring Your […]
Market the Cloud; Don’t Cloud the Market!

“The Cloud” is one of the principal Cs of The Marketing Id’s E=MC5 theory of connectivity, which states that a social Enterprise must support Mobility, Cloud-based Communications, Cyber-security, Collaboration & Content. While […]
Social Media in the B2B World – A “Social Enterprise” Requires E=MC5 Connectivity!
Jeff Bullas, a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer on Forbes.com, recently wondered whether social media had reached a digital tipping point. Jeff believes that social media, smartphones and search engine evolution […]
Facebook IPO Fallout–The Seven Doggone-Its of Highly Effective People!
In our April 14th post “If Facebook Were a Country…” we hinted at the “irrational exuberance” that was being generated by the Facebook IPO. Since early April, MahaTweeter (The Marketing Id’s Twitter […]
If Facebook Were a Country…
Facebook, the world’s largest social network company, is set to launch its Initial Public Offering (IPO) next month. Given all the hype that this IPO has generated, The Marketing Id would like […]