I’m a big believer in the Social Media Listening space. I started a company in July, 2009 to provide reports and insights using social data and it has since changed its name three times through a merger and two acquisitions. Yet, the opportunities are just beginning. If you are an entrepreneur or an investor interested in the Social [...]
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Five Segments in Social Listening to Help Plan Your Move
Posted in business, Digital Marketing, entrepreneur, tagged Alterian, Altimeter, Dachis Group, social analytics, social listening, social media on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Succession Planning Leads to More Effective Team
Posted in business, entrepreneur, tagged Alterian Vietnam office, social media, succession plan on April 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Succession planning is a critical part of management that is often overlooked. Great leaders develop great teams. Some mistake charismatic people as naturally effective leaders. These people can be very effective in doing amazing things by themselves but often times over-shadow their team, not allowing others to grow around them. If one thinks in terms of a succession plan, [...]
Social Media Disruption
Posted in business, entrepreneur, tagged evolve24, kosmix, Overtone, Radian6, social media, sysomos on April 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What does opportunity look like? How does disruption impact an industry? Here are social media monitoring tools recently acquired by variety of industries (CRM, PR, Market Research, Retail): – Techrigy – Biz360 -Drillteam -Stepchange -Crayon -Jitterjam -Evolve24 -Sysomos -Overtone -Kosmix -Radian6 How about these consultancies, which all focus on Social Media and were recently acquired? [...]
Social Media Market Opportunities Moving Forward
Posted in business, Digital Marketing, entrepreneur, tagged Alterian, Overtone, Radian6, social insights, social media on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a whirlwind of a week here in the UK. After the resignation of Alterian’s CEO, David Eldridge, I arrived to share my ideas about moving our ‘Social’ line of business forward in the upcoming fiscal year. The opportunity ahead remains tremendous. With Radian6 being acquired by Salesforce.com a couple of weeks ago and then Kana [...]
PART III: When 1+1 Can Equal Something Greater Than 2
Posted in business, Digital Marketing, entrepreneur, social media, tagged Alterian, Intrepid, John Song, lift9, Liz High, market research, Misia Tramp, social media on September 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
PART III: When 1 + 1 Can Equal Something Greater Than 2 We met at Wild Ginger for the first time in December, 2009. Misia Tramp and I talked about leveraging the available social media data for market research projects. She obviously knew her subject matter as she had been providing market research services through [...]
PART II: Continuous, Honest Self-Evaluation of the Business
Posted in business, entrepreneur, management, tagged Intrepid, John Song, Lft9, social media on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
PART II: Continuous, Honest Self-Evaluation of the Business Everyone loved the idea conceptually, but securing client contracts was a whole another matter. We started selling our social media solution in late October, 2009. This had given us time to set up and train our researchers in Vietnam. When presented with our sample Lift9 reports on [...]
Intrepid Acquired by Alterian
Posted in business, entrepreneur, tagged Alterian, Intrepid, John Song, M&A, social media on September 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It was shortly after we signed on as a customer of Techrigy’s SM2 last year that we heard about Alterian’s acquisition of the social media tools company. Now, our company, Intrepid, has just been acquired by Alterian as well. Obviously, I applaud Alterian’s vision. Together, we will be able to provide a very compelling solution [...]
Disruption Creates Opportunities
Posted in business, entrepreneur, social media, tagged Intrepid, iphone, market disruption, market research, social media on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Disruptive forces in history make impact that is long-lasting and change the status quo. We as humans walked and ran for majority of our history. Then, the invention of wheels disrupted our lifestyle and allowed us to be much more mobile. The Mongols disrupted the world by using horses in warfare. The US became a [...]
Video blog: Back in Vietnam where it Began
Posted in business, entrepreneur, social media, tagged globalization, Ho Chi Minh, Intrepid, lift9, social media, Vietnam on May 26, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The first video blog post. Would love any feedback.
How Many Persona’s Are You?
Posted in People, social media, tagged blog, Facebook, Foursquare, Linkedin, persona, social media, twitter, Xbox on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How many personalities do you have? Or a more appropriate question is how many persona’s are you? Since we were little kids, we learned to project different persona’s depending on the situation, environment or the company around us. I know I certainly projected myself differently in church than I did around my jock friends in [...]
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