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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The Millennial Behavior Change and How Education Marketing Must Adapt

As an education marketer, you have more stakeholders with more different needs than any other sector. Prospective students, parents, alumni, faculty and administration pull your messaging in different directions. How do you serve all masters – especially the millennials who have abandoned most traditional channels of communication? Well, there may be a new set of tools that can help you
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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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Self Storage Marketing | How to start thinking, and acting like a brand.

It was a great ride while it lasted. In the early days of self-storage, you could pick up commercial property, convert it with cheap facilities and rent away. Competition was there, but there were still lots of opportunities to make money – renting a box full of air. Business was good. Self Storage as an industry has matured dramatically in
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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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When Social Media Means Having to Say You’re Sorry

Social media campaigns occasionally achieve greatness.  We’re fond of the Breaking Bad app that lets you imitate the credits with your user name) http://www.avclub.com/articles/breaking-badify-your-name-with-this-app,99373/ But what should a company do when things go wrong? Take Citibank as an example.  Occupy Wall St protestors found out that Citi staffers had dialed 911 and sent out the word across social media about
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Top Planning Tools for 2014

Is it August already?  For the kids it’s back to school, for the rest of us, it’s time to lock and load on our marketing plans for 2014.  If your frontal lobe is a bit rusty, these will help: some of our favorite planning tools and overviews. The Things to Come This will get you started with a 30,000-foot perspective. 
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Get up to Speed: Marketing Automation

With promises to drive sales conversion through the roof, here comes marketing automation — delivering improved email targeting, real-time triggered messages, customer relationship management integration, and stay-in-touch campaigns. Businesses around the globe are implementing automation with success. Their seeing lower overheads and more customer intimacy. They’re gaining access to useful return-on-marketing-investment (ROMI) metrics, because automation tracks the effectiveness of marketing
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