Hi, my name is Paolo Provinciali, and this is my blog. Since you are reading this page, you either googled me and ended up here, or you browsed through my site after following a link to one of my posts. In any case, welcome!
I created this site a few years back, charmed by the idea of owning the domain with my name and with all the good intentions of sharing my thoughts with the world. Unfortunately, I haven’t been updating it as regularly as I wanted, mainly because running a well-maintained blog takes more time and effort than I was ever willing to commit.
Since I’m truly passionate about what I do for a living, I decided to use this blog to share views, insights, and learnings on marketing and media. There are indeed many sites out there covering this topic, but I believe there is value in providing a practitioner’s perspective. While extremely insightful, professional journalists and academics have constraints in their publishing that I don’t have in my personal blog. Similarly, those who work for a company providing products or services in the space will likely offer a biased view.
Even if I’m going to speak often about new technologies, media, or data sources and applications, I’m not interested in them for the sake of innovation alone. I’m interested in how they force us to continuously change our routines to leverage them to their full potential. That’s why in this blog, I try to focus more on the shift in behavior needed to have the correct execution, more than the specific actions to be taken.
In a nutshell, this blog is about the need for continuously changing the approach to the marketing discipline. I don’t see myself as a guru in the space, but I value the insight brought by expressing thoughts in a semi-organized manner and the thoughtfulness that the public forum forces on you. Besides, I believe there is the added karmic benefit in the possibility of helping someone else by sharing my perspective and experience.
Reading these pages, you may notice my evident lack of professional writing skills, but I would also like to warn you that I don’t spend time updating old posts. If it’s true that we grow wiser over time, it also means that there may be some things in past posts that are somehow incorrect or that time has proven wrong. Frankly, you could find that I’m wrong about many things. If you would like to tell me how I could do better or find the content interesting or valuable, drop me a line; I will surely appreciate it.
In essence, you should read this blog like an email sent from a smartphone: you may need to overlook the occasional typo, mistake, or lack of nuance, but hopefully, the message still has some added value. After all, you’ve got to appreciate the effort that someone spent time writing it up while clumsily walking into stuff (smiley face).
Ciao,
Paolo