Cloud-based marketing grows up with Kaboodle launch

After more than two years of development, Kaboodle, a cloud-based marketing collaboration platform launches today.

According to the company, marketers can ‘plan, track, communicate, collaborate, share and manage campaigns from initial concept to completion’. As we all like a one-stop-shop, this looks interesting and you can find out for yourself; the product is currently available to trial for free at www.kaboodlehq.com. Continue reading

Brand people are woeful at defining that we’re (actually) talking about

* Alistair Herbert is the founder of Linguabrand, a verbal identity management company that helps brands use words. He tweets here

“Brands need to put the same effort into creating a unique ‘tone of voice’ for the language used in call centres and on bills as they do for advertising campaigns or risk creating a disconnect that could hit sales.”

There’s a lot of trumpeting tone of voice at the moment, like the above quote from Marketing Week. But without some cold facts this sounds like hot air. Continue reading

Brand people are woeful at defining what we're (actually) talking about

* Alistair Herbert is the founder of Linguabrand, a verbal identity management company that helps brands use words. He tweets here

“Brands need to put the same effort into creating a unique ‘tone of voice’ for the language used in call centres and on bills as they do for advertising campaigns or risk creating a disconnect that could hit sales.”

There’s a lot of trumpeting tone of voice at the moment, like the above quote from Marketing Week. But without some cold facts this sounds like hot air. Continue reading