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Do you listen to your customers? Your clients? Your audience? You probably think you do, but if you’re the “expert” then chances are you are not. You know […]

Marketing from Behind

There once was a marketer from Mass Who’s bald head was as shiny as glass. He spoke of Big Data, Saying “It’s still in Beta”. Eventually they fired […]

There Once was a Marketer from Mass

As a marketer for several decades, I was deeply disappointed by the ads these last few Super Bowls. This is a time to dust off the talent and […]

Mediocrity Wins Big

Did you know that you can adjust your bids continually to improve your CPA? Did you know that you can create awesome landing pages that you can test […]

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Every group has its lingo, its variations of common phrases that has nuances that bond everyone a little closer. The language defines the culture of the group. Of […]

Tips for Your First Job: Learn the Lingo

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

So how’d you do? The holiday season is when everyone gets to experience what it’s like to be a marketer. You’ve got a list of tasks to complete, […]

Gift Giving is Marketing

This week as parents, as former students, as human beings the stories we are hearing, seeing, reading join us together in a shared mix of disbelief, horror, fear, […]

WTF – When to Ask Why, not What.

  Truth in Advertising Some of you may have heard about a little issue Nutella faced recently when a government agency politely told them that they have to […]

Truth in Advertising

Little Bo Retailer Little Bo Retailer was not getting clients And realized she had no retention. She called in the experts and set out her goals And offered […]

Little Bo Retailer

North Korea’s top leader named The Onion’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2012 It happened again. Content marketing rules. We thought, innocently, perhaps naively, that once the US Presidential […]

China’s Communist Party falls for Party Prank

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

If All the Audiences Were Simple If all the audiences were simple, And responded to words that were frank. And If all the clients bought all our stuff, […]

If All the Audiences Were Simple

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

It seems pointless to blog about marketing or business after the week we’ve gone through. The area I live in, although inland, was on track to take a […]

Finding Power in the Dark

Of course you know the P’s of marketing (ordered for the 4P’s, 5P’s and 7P’s): Product Price Place Promotion People Packaging Positioning

The P’s of Marketing

The time is coming to an end, the election is almost here. And we all know what that means. Yep, marketers, advertisers and creative folks will be on […]

Is it Real or is it Rote?

There’s no question that content marketing is the hot trend these days, with marketers and news companies talking about how we have to start focusing more on story […]

5 Reasons You Avoid Content Marketing

We can all think back to great jingles, taglines, commercials, and wonder what happened. Where did the talent go? Some of us remember the “It’s Morning in America […]

The Lost Art of Advertising and Marketing