Tag: Marketing

How B2B brands talk past their customers

Author – McKinsey & Co.Curator – David EdelmanMedium: Slideshare I like this is a very short but extremely practical guide to understanding the value of marketing to B2B businesses who may tend to neglect this. In fact, the article draws a connection between B2B and B2C marketing – showing how…

What is Agile Marketing and links

Thanks to Marti Konstant for this great post with links that explain agile marketing ——- I noticed this discussion today. I was part of a team of marketers that got together a year ago last June to create a set of values and principles that would help people better understand…

Here’s Why Agencies Have To Buy Online Ads To Go With TV Ads

Source: Business Insider October 1, 2011 (With research sourced form Nielsen) Advertisers talk about the need to do cross channel marketing and publishers have caught on late to this. This chart is a message for publishers as to why they need to invest in cross channel delivery of content and…

Hidden Persuaders II

Source: The Economist (Schumpeter) September 24, 2011 A marketing guru reveals some of the secrets of his profession VANCE PACKARD was the Malcolm Gladwell of his day, a journalist with a gift for explaining business to the general public. But in his 1957 classic “The Hidden Persuaders”, he out-Gladwelled Gladwell.…

When it comes to Marketing Twitter destroys Facebook

SOURCE: Business Insider | Eunju Lie | Dec. 13, 2010, 10:29 AM Facebook makes up 78% of all social media traffic; Twitter is a measly 5%.  Despite the market share, a study by Social Twist says using Twitter for marketing is the better bet. After analyzing more than one million links on both platforms, researchers…

Talking to Your Customer: Leo Burnett’s Behavioral Archetypes

Companies struggle with what to say to potential customers and consumers. Too often, they fall back on a recitation of facts and claims: We are the leading…For over 40 years, we have been…Drawing on deep industry expertise, we…Headquartered in New York City, we are the… Messages like these are not…

Coca Cola reduces ad spend 6.6% for Social Media

“This article shows evidence that Coke ‘gets it’ with social media. It’s not about start and stop promotion tactics, it’s about long term engagement. The willingness to cut ad budget shows a focus on overall return.” Rick, MyCMO ARTICLE ———– The Grocer recently published its Top 100 advertisers report and showed…

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