First Blog

This will be the first blog of many for me. I will soon be using my education and life experiences in a work environment. I am a graduate of Boise State University in Business Marketing. I wanted to start blogging about my work experiences and other thoughts about Marketing and Technology.

I work for MySQL, the world's most popular open-source database. I was recently promoted to a Marketing Manger position for the company. This will involve many diverse responsibilities and challenges. I will be working with some extremely talented and well know people in the industry. While at college, most of my courses focused on advertising and campaigns for Consumer products. Towards the end of my University experience I took some classes that opened my thoughts to other aspects of marketing. Specifically a class on Customer Relationship Mangement (CRM) and Internet Marketing Strategy. It was nice to learn some things that were somewhat new to college curriculum yet important in the market place. This helped me quite a bit moving from an entry-level sales position to an opportunity in the marketing department of my company.

I look forward to moving into this position and will continue to voice my opinion about various aspects of Marketing in the Database and Technology market. Don't hesitate to give me your feedback.

Rich Taylor