Jeff Cotrupe: $400,000 Man

Final data on Jeff Cotrupe’s 2012 performance at Stratecast show that Cotrupe’s direct personal revenue contribution to the company was in excess of $400,000. That compares favorably with industry benchmarks associated with, for example, successful software companies, which post $200,000-250,000 in revenue per employee. Since joining Stratecast, Cotrupe’s 2010-12 personal and team revenues have exceeded plan, and preliminary results indicate this positive revenue momentum is continuing in 2013.

Cotrupe has helped organizations generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, M&A, and investment capital in:

  • Technology/B2B sectors
  • Consumer markets including automotive, electronics, and travel/hospitality
  • Public sector including U.S. federal government, Department of Defense (DoD), state and local governments, and education

About Jeff Cotrupe
Jeff Cotrupe is a Global Program Director at Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, where he conceived, designed, launched, and leads the firm’s Big Data & Analytics research and consulting practice. [Cotrupe is also a CrossFit, speedwalking, and Relay For Life enthusiast; his MarketBLOG pagetop photo was shot 04/20/13 at RFL.] A former research director at Gartner, and director strategic marketing at ADC Telecommunications (the latter now TE Connectivity), Cotrupe provides research, writing, digital marketing, products, & sales at the speed of business.™ He has launched and managed 20 products and services to help employers and clients generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, M&A, and capital.

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MarketPOWER+ Milestone: 11,000 Twitter Followers

Oceanside, CA, USA, 28th March 2013 – Jeff Cotrupe’s MarketPOWER+ page on Twitter reached 11,000 followers at approximately 7:00am PDT today. The page features a lively mix of topics, as reflected in its bio tags, including but not limited to analytics, Big Data, customer experience management (CEM), digital and mobile trends, music, news, products, research, the social sphere, software, sports, and writing. Cotrupe is not kidding himself about his follower count: “These are not Charlie Sheen numbers,” he said; “some celebrities can roll out of bed in the morning and pick up more followers than I have before breakfast.” Cotrupe often does have more followers than the companies he encounters on Twitter, which he said is gratifying, but added, “numbers do not begin to tell the story. What I value are the incredible business and personal dialogues I continue to have through Twitter. I appreciate every follower and promise to keep the page topical, relevant, and a good read.”

About Jeff Cotrupe
Jeff Cotrupe is a Global Program Director at Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan, where he conceived, designed, launched, and leads the company’s Big Data & Analytics research & consulting practice. A former research director at Gartner, and director strategic marketing at ADC Telecommunications (the latter now TE Connectivity), Cotrupe provides research, writing, digital marketing, products, & sales at the speed of business.™ He has launched and managed 20 products and services to help employers and clients generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, M&A, and capital.

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Jeff Cotrupe earns professional certifications from Rackspace and Microsoft

Oceanside, CA, 3rd January 2013 – Jeff Cotrupe earned two new professional certifications in December: he is now Rackspace Cloud University Certified and an Accredited BingAds Professional.

Cloud U badge_greyThe Cloud University certification serves as recognition that Cotrupe has a strong understanding of the key elements of Cloud Computing and how they can be applied in business.

The BingAds accreditation Accredited BingAds Professionalsignifies that Cotrupe has BingAds expertise and account management experience, and has been certified in the BingAds Find A Pro Directory.

“Earning Cloud certification from the world’s 2nd-leading Cloud services provider, and accreditation from the #2 search and content advertising network, is exciting,” said Cotrupe. “I appreciate the chance to enhance my knowledge and skillset in ways that can create business value and opportunities.” Rackspace leads all others except Amazon, and BingAds trails only Google, in their respective markets.

About Jeff Cotrupe
Jeff Cotrupe is a Global Program Director at Stratecast|Frost & Sullivan where he conceived, designed, launched and leads the company’s Analytics, Customer Experience & Marketing (ACEM) research practice. A former director at both Gartner and ADC Telecommunications (now TE Connectivity), Cotrupe provides research, writing, digital marketing, products & sales at the speed of business.™ He has launched and managed 20 products and services to help employers and clients generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, M&A and capital.

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Jeff Cotrupe presents Best Practices Award to Sitecore President and talks Big Data with its CEO

Presentation and interview take place at Sitecore Symposium 2012

VIDEO: Jeff Cotrupe, Stratecast, interviews Michael Seifert, Sitecore

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Oceanside, CA, 29th November 2012 | Jeff Cotrupe, Global Program Director, Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan, presented the 2012 Best Practices Award for Technology Innovation in Customer Engagement Platforms to Sitecore at Sitecore Symposium 2012 in Las Vegas. Cotrupe made the presentation to Sitecore USA President Bjarne Hansen. Also at the event, Cotrupe interviewed Sitecore CEO Michael Seifert. In this video of that exchange, the two discuss the Award and the major challenges and opportunities in Big Data, business intelligence (BI) and analytics.

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Jeff Cotrupe to present industry award to host company at Sitecore Symposium 2012

Oceanside, CA, USA, 31st August 2012 – Jeff Cotrupe will be at Sitecore Symposium 2012 in Las Vegas, NV, USA to present a 2012 Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award, for Technology Innovation in Customer Engagement Platforms, to host company Sitecore. Sitecore redefines how organizations engage with audiences, powering compelling experiences that sense and adapt to visitors both online and in-person.

“Web content management (WCM) is vital because a company’s online presence is now its front door to the world, and 3,000 customers around the globe, with more than 32,000 sites, depend on Sitecore’s WCM solutions. Yet Sitecore had the vision to understand that in order to continue delivering the highest strategic value to the market it had to add both analytics and digital marketing capabilities to the mix. It did so with a vengeance, crafting a full-bore customer engagement platform that delivers in all three areas,” said Cotrupe. Continue reading

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YOU’RE INVITED to Analyst Briefing: tackling single biggest challenge in telecom today

Deploying business intelligence and analytics to provide video delivery, assurance and quality of experience

Oceanside, CA, USA, 29 June 2012 – Jeff Cotrupe will deliver a Frost & Sullivan Analyst Briefing  titled Video Delivery, Assurance and QoE: Managing the Video Tidal Wave, 11 July 2012 at 1:00pm EDT. For more information and to register, visit the event page.

“Video is consuming an ever-greater share of network capacity and traffic,” said Cotrupe. “This creates huge business and operations issues for communications service providers–and resolving them is one of the most interesting, important and, in our view, revenue-worthy applications of BI and analytics today.”

About Jeff Cotrupe
Jeff Cotrupe is a Global Program Director at Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan where he directs two research programs: Analytics, Customer Experience & Marketing (ACEM) and OSS/BSS Global Competitive Strategies (OSSCS). Cotrupe has launched and managed 20 products and services to help employers and clients generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, M&A and capital, offering research, writing, digital marketing, products & sales at the speed of business.™

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Jeff Cotrupe evangelizes Stratecast research program through global speaking and media venues

Oceanside, CA, USA, 1 May 2012 – Jeff Cotrupe, who launched a new research program for Stratecast in 4Q2011, is on the road in 2012 to propel the growth of the new program. Analytics, Customer Experience & Marketing (ACEM), pronounced “ace-em,” is, in Cotrupe’s words, focused on “the intelligent application of analytics in business and life,” and he is speaking on analytics and business intelligence (BI) topics in a series of high-profile venues. In March he was quoted in Destination CRM on Pegasystems’ addition of social media monitoring to its existing customer relationship management (CRM) platform. On 1 May his white paper Democratizing BI: Enterprise-quality Analytics for Midsized Companies began appearing at the NEWS link of his Stratecast client CloudTrigger. On 14 May Cotrupe speaks on “BI & Data Warehouse Market Trends and CSP Initiatives” at the InTouch 2012 business forum (Twitter: #intouch12) in Miami, FL, USA, hosted by his Stratecast client and global communications software leader Amdocs. On 22 May Cotrupe speaks on a panel, “Opportunities and Challenges of Multiscreen Video Delivery,” at Management World 2012 (Twitter: #mwd12) in Dublin, Ireland. Continue reading

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Jeff Cotrupe tapped for Video QoE Panel at TM Forum’s Management World/Dublin 2012

Oceanside, CA, USA, 31 January 2012 – IneoQuest, which provides companies with video service assurance and management of the viewer experience, has invited Jeff Cotrupe, a Global Program Director at Stratecast, to speak on a panel at Management World 2012 in Dublin, Ireland. Cotrupe will join a representative from IneoQuest and a third speaker from an undisclosed communications service provider (CSP) on the panel, which will discuss solutions that ensure high quality of experience (QoE) for video viewers. QoE solutions are one of four areas Cotrupe and Stratecast analyze under the category of customer experience management (CEM). Continue reading

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Jeff Cotrupe tops 8,300-follower mark on Twitter

Oceanside, CA, USA, 15 December 2011 – Jeff Cotrupe’s Twitter site now reaches more than 8,350 followers, an increase of more than 14% over its follower base on 1 August. “Admittedly these are not Charlie Sheen numbers,” said Cotrupe, “but I often have more followers than companies we do business with–and the most important thing is the quality of the dialogues I get to engage in with great people across the Twittersphere.” Cotrupe also manages the Twitter site for Stratecast, and while that site deals with a more limited range of subject matter, he has built Stratecast’s follower base from 125 in September 2010 to nearly 1,400 today.

About Jeff Cotrupe
Jeff Cotrupe is a Global Program Director at Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan, where he directs two research programs: OSS/BSS Global Competitive Strategies (OSSCS) and Analytics, Customer Experience & Marketing (ACEM). Cotrupe has launched and managed 20 products and services to help employers and clients generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, M&A and capital.

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Jeff Cotrupe leads panel of industry stars at GIL 2011: Silicon Valley

Twitter site tops 7,500-follower mark

Oceanside, CA, Scan code to visit GIL11 onlineUSA, 17 September 2011 – Jeff Cotrupe led a panel on analytics at GIL 2011: Silicon Valley (Twitter: #GIL11sv), Frost & Sullivan’s Growth, Innovation and Leadership event at the Fairmont San Jose, San Jose, California. The panel, “Meeting of the Minds: Rediscovering Your Business Through High-Impact Analytics,” covered topics across the business analytics & intelligence (BAI) and web analytics spectrum. The panel also featured an industry star-studded group of panelists: Brett Error, Vice President, Chief Technologist, Omniture Business Unit of Adobe; Erick Brethenoux, Program Director, Predictive Analytics and Decision Management, IBM; Indranil Chatterjee, Vice President of Mediation Platforms, Openwave Systems; John Zell, Vice President Global CRM Solutions, Razorfish, and Nanda Kishore, Chief Technology Officer, ShareThis. Continue reading

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