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The Master of Guerilla Marketing Turns Microsoft's Prank Around

The Master of Guerilla Marketing Turns Microsoft’s Prank Around

By Zoli Erdos on December 10, 2010

CloudAve readers know I am a fan of edgy marketing.  Now it’s time to update my recently compiled inventory of software marketing pranks.  A major show like Salesforce.com’s DreamForce would not even be real without some guerilla marketing activity – except the players seemed to have traded places this year.  Guerilla Marketing is normally David’s [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged conferences, CRM, df10, dreamforce, edgy marketing, forced, Guerrilla marketing, marc benioff, marketing pranks, microsoft, microsoft dynamics, salesforce.com, software marketing, zoho | 1 Response

Software Marketing Pranks

Software Marketing Pranks

By Zoli Erdos on October 26, 2010

I envy software marketing types.  They get to stay kids forever: pull pranks and even get paid for it.:-) Today’s example comes courtesy of TechCrunch: PayPal competitor WePay dropped a 600lbs ice block at the entrance of the Paypal developer conference.  They got chased away and Moscone security removed the ice block.   My question: who [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Just for fun, Marketing | Tagged billboards, box.net, boxed software, conferences, edgy marketing, Great Plains, humor, kashflow, marketing pranks, microsoft, netsuite, Oracle, paypal, saas, sage, salesforce.com, sap, sharepoint, siebel, software marketing, wepay, zoho | 5 Responses

From 24SevenOffice to 24SevenTravel and On to ...

From 24SevenOffice to 24SevenTravel and On to …

By Zoli Erdos on December 15, 2008

A good 3 years ago I "discovered" a Norway-based SaaS All-in-One business suite provider, 24SevenOffice, and for a while wrote about them extensively.  I truly believed I found a gem.  They offered a modular but integrated system to the SMB market with unparallelled  functionality: Accounting, CRM (Contacts, Lead Mgt, SFA), ERP (Supply Chain, Orders, Products, [...]

Posted in Small business, Strategy | Tagged 24SevenOffice, all-in-one, CRM, erp, saas, saas strategy, smb, smb software, sme, software marketing | 2 Responses

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