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How to Create More Engaging Social Content: Step Two, Understand the Buying Cycle
In the first post of this series, we discussed the importance of better understanding your customer and using buyer personas as a tool in that pursuit. Once you have that insight into who your customers are, it’s time to consider where they are in their purchasing decision-making process. Social media expert Chris Brogan published a fantastic and simple to use resource on this recently. Fishing Where the Fish Are is a short report to help marketers map social media to the buying cycle. Before making any purchase, customers are on a journey through their discovery of […]
Building Out A VMware Home Lab
February 25, 2013 in Networking, Storage, Tech, Virtualization
Sounds exciting right! Well a while back I wrote how I was going to build out a view environment in the Dell TechCenter lab. Due to some circumstances out of my control that idea passed and I have not been able to covert the dream into reality. Hence I have turned my attention to building out a “Mobile Lab” that will allow me to learn more about the products/technology themselves and also be able to take it to any events that I may attend. I will be posting some updates […]
Which (Free) Cloud Storage To Choose
December 20, 2012 in Non-Tech, Storage, Tech
There are many free cloud storage options out there to choose from, but which ones are the best? Do you go by who gives you the most free storage, the one recommended by a co-worker, by a friend, or by the latest pop-up you saw? Maybe you go the more responsible route and choose based upon reliability, security, ease of use, cost and their support. Any way you decide there are a few names that keep popping up. Microsoft SkyDrive, SugarSync, Mozy, Dropbox, Box, Google Drive. There’s a good article […]
My Time With The SonyX Headphones
There are a lot of differing options about Klout, but the one thing they excel at is getting brands to participate in their perks program. This is a great way to get people talking about or even promoting your brand (plus people get free stuff). I was lucky enough to snag one of the Simon Cowell SonyX headphone perks a few moths ago. Granted these headphones are something I would have never thought about purchasing, mainly because I was not a fan of the huge headphones that looked like they […]
Hands On With The PS-M4110
June 12, 2012 in Events, Storage
So the PS-M4110 was announced Tuesday at the Dell Storage Forum keynote and since then there have been a few questions. A better part of those questions have been asked around management. So we pulled David Stevens, Dell EqualLogic engineer for a bit to talk about it. There’s a link to the blog post at the end. First let’s talk a little about what the array is. The PS-M4110 is a double-wide, half-height blade form factor that will support up to 14 x 2.5” drives. The blade features up to […]
Dell Storage Forum – Boston!
June 5, 2012 in Events, Storage
Next week I will be in Boston for Dell Storage forum! This will be my first trip to Boston, but between the conference and the events they have planned it should be a good one. For the conference part me and Lance (@iSCSIKing) will have a booth on the expo floor where we will have our DTC shorty rack and will once again host our SAN challenge. We will also be going around getting the latest and greatest info from others their and always looking for our customers and community […]