Evolving digital capabilities allow healthcare providers to develop better, more personalized care for patients. While the fascinating technological advances are fun to talk about (care to implant a microchip of your medical history?), the more pressing side of technology is how it changes human behavior: how technology reframes the process of finding and using healthcare as patients find new ways to
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Porter’s Five Forces: Focus on Higher Education Marketing
Higher Educators have more varied challenges than perhaps any other field. You have enormous client service issues, administrative challenges, budget challenges, etc. Day to day crisis management gives you little time to think about the big picture – and when you do, focusing the conversation on workable solutions usually entails negotiations across departments and lines of authority. Here’s a tool
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Trend Convergence For the Food Marketing Industry
We see three threads coming together that could spell opportunity for food marketers. First, IRI MarketPulse Survey Q4, 2014 came up with this prediction for 2015 CPG shoppers: 43% of Shoppers plan to buy large packages to get the lowest price per serving. 43% is a big number, but so what, you say? Bulk is nothing new to the likes
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Specialty Food Marketing Meets Special Delivery
30 years of specialty food marketing teaches you that food people are a breed apart. The passion for great food, delight at a clever new idea, and the compulsion to share our discoveries with others are the hallmarks of a group unlike any other. So for my fellow hopeless addicts, here’s great news: two really smart services that are taking
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140 Bites – Trendwatching at the Fancy Food Show
Who wouldn’t love the New York Fancy Food Show? Walking around eating in the name of specialty food marketing is something I look forward to every year. The other treat? Trendwatching. There was the year of mustards, the year of salsas, the year of artisanal chocolates, the year of tea. This year? Quick high-impact bites. Brownie Brittle delivers just the
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Budgeting for Small Brand Marketers needs Marketing Effectiveness
2015 is coming. Time for ambitious brands with limited budgets to make really tough choices. We’ve just won our second award for Marketing Effectiveness, for a project that came in under $350,000. So we hope you’ll find this helpful: Two things to know about changes in Social Media Be aware that an algorithmic change will drastically reduce your Facebook exposure: Facebook
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Specialty Food Brands – David versus Goliath battles
We worked with Rena through the creative food company she founded in 2000 with Tom Eckerle, Soup to Nuts. Together they created and photographed over 200 recipes for our agency client, Arla Foods. Rena’s expertise in every aspect of food, from recipe creation for the home cook to food service design to the taste preferences of individual markets, was
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Pinterest Marketing Matures for CPGs
Boris is the keeper of the data around here and he called me over the other day all excited. I looked over his shoulder at the client’s website analytics and he pointed to where Pinterest had surpassed Google as the number one driver to their website. This is huge, people. With 70 million users – 80% of them female, Pinterest
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Food Marketers for CPGs Seeking the Secret Weapon – News from the Food Aisle
Part of our job (the fun part) as food marketers is to keep up with digital and mobile innovations. Some clever solutions are in beta with major brands, and if they can train consumers to use them, they’ll do magic: enhance the shopping experience and help brands make noise at point of purchase. Overcoming Point Of Purchase Block Point of
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The Fifth “P”: Selling in the Era of the Maximizing Mindset
You built your brand on the four P’s – product, place, price, and promotion. Now you need to think about how your company approaches the fifth ‘P’ – Personhood. Anyone who’s read Groundswell, the seminal text on how social media changed business forever, is familiar with the new reality – that the ‘fourth wall’ has come down. Corporations used to
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