Author Archives: Matt Collins
Understanding Your Brand’s ‘Mobile Moments’: Valuable Insight From Forrester Research
Though I don’t read about them much in the more popular tech press, mobile user interface or user experience (UI or UX for short) specialists have some of the toughest jobs. They typically have just a four inch screen with which to deliver a mobile app or website. Their end users often have must minutes, […]
Are We Building Mobile Ecosystems Or Economies?
Every industry produces its fair share of terminology. Tech companies are especially prodigious suppliers of new business vocabulary. Sometimes, our vernacular achieves escape velocity, going beyond the realm of its native space and spreading to other businesses and sectors. I can’t think of a more obvious example of this than the word “ecosystem.” What began […]
Downsizing’s Silver Linings
I joined Microsoft about three months ago as a result of its acquisition of Nokia’s devices business. Last week, Microsoft announced a restructuring that will result in the loss of thousands of jobs, including many previously held by friends of mine. When I include my years at Nokia, I have survived layoffs, including last week’s, […]
Taking The Long View In The Rivalry Between Mobile Web And Apps
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the domination of apps in the battle for the time we spend with digital media. Over a recent lunch with a friend of mine who runs a company specializing in mobile marketing, I asked if he thought that mobile apps had secured a permanent advantage over mobile web. […]
The Joy And Frustration Of Creation
My adventures in building my very first app, and the lessons I learned along the way.
A Warning Sign For Brands: You May Not Be Keeping Up With Your Mobile Customers
Last week, I met with two marketing agency CEOs whom I’ve gotten to know over the years. As we caught up on their businesses, I asked them the same question I ask a lot of non-mobile native company executives. What mobile projects are keeping you busy? The surprising answer, for them and me? “There really […]
Podcast: Mobile Marketing’s Role In Attracting Prospective University Students
http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/2856672#.U6DvHxJST5k.twitter Last week, I had the good fortune to speak at Intead’s Global Marketing Workshop for Academic Leaders about the role mobile and mobile marketing can play in recruiting new students, especially in emerging markets. As a build-up to that event, I joined Intead’s CEO, Michael Waxman-Lenz, for a podcast. We spoke extensively about mobile, including […]
Could This Be The World’s Tastiest App And Social Network? Meet feedfeed.
At Social Media Week in New York City this year, I met Julie Resnick, an entrepreneur who, with her husband, Dan, is embarking on a two-headed business challenge: building an all-new social network based on food, and an app to help bind members and their favorite recipes together. They call it feedfeed. Though their business is […]
Apple’s WWDC Takeaways For Mobile Marketing: Your Success Is Up To You
Actor, host of one of my favorite podcasts, writer, and comedian, Kevin Pollak, reminded me of a truth about success in a recent interview with actress Anna Faris: those who wait around for the phone to ring typically don’t achieve much. Performers, entrepreneurs in the purest form, know that they have to make their own breaks. I […]
Mobile’s Principle Of Giving And Getting
Of all the revenues that mobile phone OEMs can measure and that are generated via apps (and here I’m excluding in-app advertising), over 90 percent come from “freemium” apps. “Freemium” means free to download and use, but with costs for getting more. A game might be free to download, for example, but if you want to advance […]
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