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Wister Walcott is the co-founder and vice president of products at Marin Software.

Wister is an experienced technology executive with proven sales and marketing expertise. Prior to Marin Software, Wister was vice president of marketing at Composite Software, an innovative analytics middleware vendor.

He also served as vice president of marketing at Pilot Network Services, an Internet security provider that went public in 1998. Prior to Composite, Wister spent nearly six years at Siebel Systems.

He founded the Employee Relationship Management product line and grew it to $30MM in revenue. Other Siebel roles included general manager of Sales.com and Siebel marketing automation products. Earlier in his career, Wister held a number of technical, product management and business development positions at Oracle.

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Google Trademark Process, Shifting Burden to Brand Owners

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May 20th 2009
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  |   Wister Walcott

ADOTAS — Last week, Google announced it would allow limited use of trademarks in the text of some search ads, even if the trademark owner objects. Here’s a brief rundown of what the decision means for search marketers. What is the change? · The prior process allowed brand owners to specify to Google [...] More...

Spend More, Spend Better … See ROI Rise

Written on
July 28th 2008
Author
  |   Wister Walcott

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — In today’s economic climate, many marketers are understandably looking for ways to cut their spend. But there’s one area marketers should be increasing their budgets: search engine marketing. The truth is, you can’t afford NOT to increase your search marketing spend – because SEM consistently delivers the [...] More...

Ban Negative Keywords To Boost Conversion

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May 23rd 2008
Author
  |   Wister Walcott

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — In these rocky economic times, marketers need to get the most out of every penny spent on search advertising. One way to do that is to make sure “negative keywords” aren’t sabotaging your marketing ROI. Negative keywords are the unrelated search terms that mistakenly trigger your ad. (For [...] More...




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