Hi, I'm John Balla - I co-founded the SAS Customer Intelligence blog and served as Editor for five years. I held a number of marketing roles at SAS as Content Strategist, Industry Field Marketing and as Go-to-Marketing Lead for our Customer Intelligence Solutions. I like to find and share content and experiences that open doors, answer questions, and sometimes challenge assumptions so better questions can be asked. Outside of work I am an avid downhill snow skier, hiker and beach enthusiast. I stay busy with my family, volunteering for civic causes, keeping my garden green, striving for green living, expressing myself with puns, and making my own café con leche every morning. I’ve lived and worked on 3 contents and can communicate fluently in Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian and get by with passable English. Prior to SAS, my experience in marketing ranges from Fortune 100 companies to co-founding two start ups. I studied economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and got an MBA from Georgetown. Follow me on Twitter. Connect with me on LinkedIn.
Thanks for your feedback on this topic. As promised, I am circling back on the Advertising: To Gate or Not to Gate post I wrote in late April. As you'll recall, I initiated a little experiment to offer one of our assets via an online ad without registration. For a
We’re pleased to offer another segment of “The Nuts & Bolts of Social Media,” this time with my esteemed colleague, Justin Huntsman. In this short video, Deb talks to Justin about how he’s integrating social media into his campaigns. During the discussion, Justin provides some great ideas about how to
“The Nuts & Bolts of Social Media,” is the title of the series of video interview segments we're producing, beginning with the Chris Brogan interviews, and continuing on with some of our internal social media champions, and when possible, with customers. Look for future posts tagged "The Nuts and Bolts
So here we are trying to put our best feet forward with this group blog and be serious about the topics on the minds of marketers today. As part of that, we thought we should all have pictures for our profile that are somewhat uniform and vaguely professional. We scheduled
On a recent trip to SAS, Paul Greenberg shared his thoughts and ideas about marketing and social media. He pointed out that the rise of social media is not simply a change in how we do business; it signals a deeper transformation in how humans communicate online. Paul cited examples,
Just the other day, we had our regular review meeting with our advertising account team, where we look at our inventory of ads, check their performance and discuss any needed refinements and next steps. During that review, we considered our plans to promote our new Social Media Analytics solution, which
For those of you headed to Seattle next week for SAS Global Forum or SGF Executive Conference (#SGF10 and #SGFXC on Twitter), there are a number of great opportunities for you to learn new things and meet your peers. Here’s what you can expect related just to Customer Intelligence or
At this point, I have started three potential posts for this blog and each feels like we’re at a party together and we just got introduced, and then I start out by blurting a random, weird factoid that is sure to repel you. So let’s not do that, and instead
