When you invest in promotional products, you want to make the most of them. Why just use them as giveaways at a trade shows and events? When promotional products do…
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Branding can help local businesses avoid the “growth trap”
Local businesses have a very pragmatic attitude about branding: they ignore it. Many of them are more worried about meeting payroll, making rent, paying taxes, and other cash crises than…
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Reinvent your marketing plan assignment in 10 easy steps
An effective marketing strategy is a must for the success of even the best product of industry. Reaching the minds of target buyers in the right way is essential for…
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Intentional inventing: own the intellectual property that leads the future
Lesson for leaders Innovations rule today’s world, so everyone wants to innovate. Innovations are filed for patenting and claimed as property before they are launched. If someone else had…
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Integrating and automating email marketing and your website
If third time’s the charm, why not a fourth piece related to email marketing?! (You can check out the last few here.) This time, though, we’re going to relate email…
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3 reasons to avoid Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs)
I often get asked about IBM‘s position on Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs). AMPs are mobile-first web pages that you submit to Google, so that it caches them for quicker load…
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How to triple your digital marketing results
What metrics do you use to define digital marketing success today? Clicks? Traffic? Followers? Leads? Sales? ROI? Notice what these metrics have in common: they all require some action on…
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Millennials are finally taking action in brand support
Marketers and political leaders have been frustrated for years with the reluctance of millennials to actually follow up on their complaints and take real action on brand issues. As the…
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Emotional branding vs. quantitative measurement. Or how fear, happiness, sadness, anger, anticipation and surprise beat “Buy Now” every time
Working on a CM project recently, I had the privilege of collaborating with one of the industry’s thought leaders. While laying down the basic building blocks of our strategy, something…
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