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EMC is a Laggard Playing by the Old Rules of Marketing

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I was talking to a friend who does marketing at EMC, a gigantic and successful technology company (over 30,000 employees).  I asked him what he thought some of the most important marketing activities were that they did at EMC.  He gave me the normal "old school" marketing answer about paying analysts a bunch of money to write reports, developing customer case studies, presenting at conferences, etc.

I asked him to tell me how to describe EMC in two words, and I suggested the phrase "data storage".  He said that they would prefer "information infrastructure".  I said, let's do an experiment with both terms.  I did a simple Google search for each phrase, you can see the results below by clicking on the links.  I was shocked to see that EMC is not on the first page for either search phrase.

Google search for "data storage"
Google search for "information infrastructure"

How could a company as large as EMC not be listed in search engines for a basic search term that describes their company?  This is like opening the Yellow Pages in 1990 and looking under "car rental" and not seeing an ad for Hertz!

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Posted by Mike Volpe on Wed, Sep 26, 2007 @ 10:29 AM