Brand marketing has evolved from product-centric to consumer-centric to values-centric today. CSR (corporate social responsibility) has become an essential ingredient in the marketing strategy and an integral part of the…
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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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Half of your audience hates you
The contentious political times we live in offer scant places to hide for the average company. For every Patagonia that wears its collective ideology on its sleeve, there are thousands…
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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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How motion in technology business videos provides meaning
“Motion provides meaning,” according to Google‘s Material Design language for mobile application design. Motion guides our interactions with mobile devices. Motion is equally central to our experience of watching videos….
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How the new tax bill exacerbates millennials’ frustration with “brand capitalism”
Capitalism is really the brand of our free market economic system which has been the driving force for American commercial success since its founding. But is it working as a…
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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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Ten tips for customer reactivation
Are you looking for the best ways to reactivate dormant customers and reduce churn? Here’s a roundup of the ten most effective practices today, in both business and consumer markets….
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