Author Archives: Nick Van Weerdenburg

Why Concurrent Marketing is Becoming a Competitive Necessity

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Nick Van Weerdenburg

Talking with an agency customer today, he said, “our work is becoming so complex and intricate it’s more like product development”. That’s a great insight, and one that I think marketers have been avoiding. They are happy to talk about … Continue reading →

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Mobile Digital Asset Management Completes the DAM Value Chain

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Nick Van Weerdenburg

At Henry Stewart last week we announced our iPad interface and our mobile digital asset management strategy. You can read more here-  North Plains Puts the Power of an Enterprise DAM Solution on the iPad. One of the interesting aspects of … Continue reading →

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Mind the DAM Gap

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Nick Van Weerdenburg

Business software solutions are known for running into trouble when they try to “boil the ocean”- trying to do too much too soon with inadequate understanding. However, just as big an issue are the “unadopted” enterprise solutions that tried to … Continue reading →

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A Digital Asset Ecosystem Outlook is Critical to DAM Success

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Nick Van Weerdenburg

A digital asset ecosystem outlook is one where you look at your digital media value chain across all of your creative partners. With so much marketing outsourced, this is an essential consideration for any modern DAM. This is reflected in … Continue reading →

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Does Regular Marketing Content Have a Place in Social Media?

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Nick Van Weerdenburg

There is a lot of talk about social media monitoring, and social media participation, but not a lot, if any, talk about social media publishing. If fact, some would argue that it’s not relevant, and contrary to social media. But … Continue reading →

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Can Rich Media Make a Toaster Cool?

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Nick Van Weerdenburg

A lot of companies, particularly in traditional manufacturing, look at online marketing, content marketing, and social media marketing and wonder if it applies to them. They don’t want to waste time and effort following unsubstantiated trends, and they are carefully … Continue reading →

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Digital Asset Management: The History Channel for Your Company

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Nick Van Weerdenburg

Digital asset management systems are many things, but one thing that isn’t discussed much is the historical value of DAM to an organization. We usually think of DAMs value in immediate ROI – capturing and distributing our rich media assets … Continue reading →

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Ghost of Greeting Cards Past: Marketing Lessons Learned from this Year’s Seasons Greetings Cards

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Nick Van Weerdenburg

As I’ve been working the last two weeks I’ve been impressed by the wide variety of holiday greeting cards companies are sending around. It used to be that paper cards were the more thoughtful ones but the production value going … Continue reading →

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Your Brand is Now Mostly Digital

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Nick Van Weerdenburg

All commerce is now e-commerce. Customers may purchase a product in-store, but the chances are that the purchase has an online history behind it. Three of four hours researching a new tire purchase, a couple of weeks reading up on … Continue reading →

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How to Overcome the Content Barrier in Marketing Operations

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Nick Van Weerdenburg

In the online world, marketing is about the conversations visitors have with your content while you aren’t there. At some point in the last five years we crossed a line where all of our customers were online and actively looking … Continue reading →

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