Persona Development – An Update

In this great post from Perianne Grignon of [x + 1], she argues that the concept of media is dead, saying “obviously at one level – as a means for reaching the right audiences with relevant messages – the answer is “yes”. But if you’re still thinking of media as an array of discreet channels that need to be individually planned for, bought, optimized and managed, the answer needs to be a loud and emphatic “no.”

At Pluris, we wholeheartedly agree with this message.  Our Offer Optimization solution runs across all channels, and its goal is to deliver a consistent message to each consumer regardless of channel.  About a year ago, we posted our thinking on personas as a means to provide “color” to statistics. 

Big Data? Let’s Take A Step Back.

Big data is the rage.  Big data companies are getting funded.  Big data scientists are getting hired.  A slew of blog posts are screaming for marketers to understand and use big data.  So what is Big data?  In a nutshell, it is doing what Google has been doing for over a decade.  Taking in, indexing and categorizing massive amount of data generated from the web.  It involves new hardware and software paradigms and new skill sets to further challenge us.