Archive | February, 2009

17 February 2009 ~ 6 Comments

The 15 Billion Dollar Question: Who Owns Customer Data?

The 15 Billion Dollar Question: Who Owns Customer Data?

Earlier in the week I asked the following question on Twitter: Question: Who owns customer data? Supplier, Agency, Customer. I would like your thoughts on this? The discussion first came up at the Enter 2009 Conference in Amsterdam where I argued that we, as an industry, need to spend less time hording customer data and [...]

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08 February 2009 ~ 0 Comments

5 Recommendations for Travel SaaS Providers: A Lesson from Spock

5 Recommendations for Travel SaaS Providers: A Lesson from Spock

You’ll probably recognize the Three Musketeer’s famous tag line “All for one and one for all”, but does it really work in a software as a service environment?  That is the challenge I was faced with this weekend after we released our latest round of updates to Rezgo.  The challenge I face everyday with Rezgo [...]

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04 February 2009 ~ 19 Comments

Some Travel Companies Just Get It! Uptake.com

With so much focus on technology and innovation, its nice to see a web company launch something as simple and effective as a good blog site.  Granted I can say its a simple technological solution because I know how these things work.  That said, the real work in launching something like the Uptake Blog Network [...]

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03 February 2009 ~ 13 Comments

10 Lessons Learned at Enter 2009

It seems I travel to so many of these conferences now that it is difficult to identify key take-aways from each one.  The thing I enjoy most about these conferences is the collaborating and sharing that comes from an industry that is, in all other cases, extremely competitive.  Here is what I learned from IFITT’s [...]

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