In 2007, 18 months after it was launched, Guitar Hero made a revolution in the video game industry and nailed down most of sceptics complaining about the viability of this type of game. However, the myriad of enthusiastic players around the game was also accompanied by other less enthusiastic people who clearly didn’t get it. [...]
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On the “super raining” Thursday September 30th, along with a delegation of more than 10 people from the RBC research Chair at HEC Montréal, I attended “the Art of Marketing” conference, an event targeted to marketing practitioners where I was a spectator to 6 best-selling presenters. However, even though I was not the target audience, [...]
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Loads of Hope,
Max Lenderman,
Mitch Joel,
oh yes we did,
Seth Godin,
The art of marketing,
The Journey
I recently took part, along with 60 other bloggers from Québec, in a video ad (you can see me in the video at 0:33) for Commensal restaurants where the message urges Stephen Harper’s government to fight against climate change and, to a more global extent, to generate more awareness of the climate change issue. The [...]
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honesty,
oscar wilde,
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The BIXI (Bicycle taxi) – the new public bike system in Montreal – was officially launched this month, but still only a few Montrealers have tried this new service. Last Sunday afternoon, I went to the Old Port without any specific intentions and ended up trying one of these futuristic-looking bikes proudly sponsored by Rio [...]
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Rio Tinto Alcan,
works
Convergence, convergence and convergence, but what the heck are you talking about? Convergence can take many forms and since it is a buzzword for managers – along with words such as “viral”, “word-of-mouth”, “social media”, “sustainability” or “economic crisis” – there are still many individuals that have difficulties to define what convergence really is. According [...]
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smartphones,
technology,
technology convergence
The famous expression “Big Brother is watching you”, directly taken from George Orwell’s visionary book entitled 1984, written in 1948 and published in 1949, hits the field of marketing one more time. And this time, in-store advertisers are the “evil” marketers involved. In this way, in-store advertisers have started to use facial recognition software incorporated [...]
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information gathering,
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intelligent technology,
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interactive technology,
Paco Underhill,
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