Author: Neville Hobson

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #756: May 19, 2014

    Intro: A big shout-out to new business podcaster, Stephen Waddington; Shel moderating a WOMMA webinar on May 20; Quick News: Welcome to Heathrow’s “Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5”, Target’s CMO responds on LinkedIn to employee rant published to Gawker, Wired and…

  • Customer disservice from Virgin Media

    Customer disservice from Virgin Media

    I thought I was over writing posts about ineffective customer service, the kind of thing that was pretty common four or five years ago. The type of customer service that revolves around call centres and staff that, while friendly and…

  • How up-to-speed are you about mobile?

    How up-to-speed are you about mobile?

    If you use social web services like Instagram, Vine or Snapchat, you’re probably aware that these particular services are very much designed for use on mobile devices. By 98 percent, 99 percent and 100 percent of users, respectively, to be…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #755: May 12, 2014

    Intro: FIR Book Review coming: ‘The Mobile Mind Shift’ by Ted Schadler, Josh Bernoff and Julie Ask from Forrester; Quick News: Marketing executives call PR an underutilized strategy; ready or not, the new Twitter profile will roll out to all…

  • #Socialnomics 2014: A lot happened in five years

    A popular video in corporate presentations, seminars, webinars and other events aimed at educating business people about social media is Social Media Revolution, published in 2009 by author Erik Qualman to support his best-selling book, Socialnomics. Since 2009, the video…