Mobile Marketing


Who’s Getting to Know You? Big Brother? Crazy Cousin? Or Someone else? Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you. Getting to like you, Getting to […]

Who’s Getting to Know You?


Big Brother Probably Isn’t Watching You You’re Just Not That Interesting   OMG, did you hear? The CIA spies on people. OMG, that’s out-RA-geous. It’s been a busy news […]

Big Brother Isn’t Watching You


You’ve heard it many times, you may have even said it. “Email doesn’t work for us.” “Our audience doesn’t respond to ads.” “Our customers aren’t on Social Media.” […]

Marketing really hasn’t worked for us


Recently I have been focusing more and more on working with very small companies. Most of my clients are either taken their maiden steps into the world of […]

The Reluctant Marketer




Most smaller brands and entrepreneurs use social media as one of their main marketing strategies, and rightly so, it’s a very powerful channel. Social Media Marketing by nature […]

Social Media Marketing is Still Marketing


I gave up and slammed down my phone (well, not slammed, I’m too keenly aware of the cost of technology, so I “angrily” hit the button to shut […]

#$@&%* Marketers!




I’ve seen about 30 posts and articles so far about the varying success or failure of retailers to match the projections of holiday shoppers, about half of which […]

The 2015 Holiday Shopping Frenzy


As we welcome the onset of fall, so begins the process of finalizing strategic plans, budgets, and innovative initiatives for the coming year. You can see that in […]

Coming Soon – 2016: The Year of …


Adobe and EConsultancy Releases the 2015 Digital Trends Report Adobe just published the 2015 Digital Marketing Trends for 2015, a study based on survey results with Econsultancy. The […]

And the Results are In


The headline called out to me: The Top 7 Online Marketing Trends That Will Dominate 2014 As I eagerly consumed the short summary of the article to find […]

You Had Me at “Marketing Trends”




So now that the holiday shopping season is essentially over (cue the post holiday and new year sales) it’s time to look back and see how everyone did.

Market to People, not to Consumers


Are you getting lost in your data? You’ve got your strategy, you’ve used it to identify your KPIs, and you’ve set up your tactics and have launched your […]

Lost in Data


That’s the mantra we heard beginning the day after the election about the outcome of the election. So much of the “blame” for why one party won and […]

Digital Advertising Didn’t Work






I had a client tell me that they don’t advertise, they don’t NEED to. Over 20 years of experience allowed me to smile on the inside, and not […]

Oh, We Don’t NEED to Advertise



If your email delivery rate is high and your open rate is low, your email subject line is to blame. How much time and thought did you put […]

Does Your Email Subject Line Suck?


Classical Mythology, Reality TV, and Marketing Three concepts that are not typically thought of together. Marketing and Reality TV definitely go hand and hand, but where does Classical […]

What Mythology and Reality TV bring to Marketing


How many times have we heard someone say, “Failure is not an option in this case?” It amuses me, at first. Every time I hear that my first […]

Is Failure Really Not an Option?


I read a blog recently that noted at a basic level, inbound marketing is unpaid, outbound marketing is paid. I understand that it was a high level statement, […]

Inbound vs Outbound marketing