What would you do if you surveyed your customers and they all said you suck? It may seem like a worst case scenario, but companies are faced with this challenge more often than you would think. It is not easy to hear, and in part it is the reason many companies simply don't survey their
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3 Non-Tech Business Trends From CES That Matter For All Of U ...
The end of last week was the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which attracts more than 120,000 people from all parts of the technology industry together to Las Vegas to share their latest innovations and visions for the future. NBC was reporting live from the tradeshow floor, all the big tech publications were there and
Continue reading »The Colorful Secret Women Don't Want Us To Know
This is just a short post about a brilliant viral marketing campaign that is happening right now which you might have already seen. Women around the world are just posting a color in their Facebook status updates and sharing it with their girlfriends only. The whole thing is designed to raise awareness about breast cancer
Continue reading »What Vegas Can Teach You About Marketing
In a place best known for accidental weddings, expensive hangovers and overly plasticized lounge singers it may seem that there isn't much to learn when it comes to marketing. In fact, to amend a Vegas cliche, it may seem that what works in Vegas (for marketing), only works in Vegas. That's not entirely true, though.
Continue reading »5 Non-Obvious Marketing Trends To Watch In 2010
In these last few weeks of 2009, one of the things that nearly everyone is doing is getting ready for what is to come in 2010. Like many bloggers, I have already started reading some "predictions" for 2010 – which often take lessons learned for 2009 and project them into the next year. For my
Continue reading »What Do YOU Want On Fridays? (A Live Poll)
So today is the last Friday before many people in the US head out for a holiday (including myself) and over that time I am planning to make some changes to the content of this blog – followed by a long overdue design overhaul early next year. As part of that, my aim is to
Continue reading »7 Destination Marketing Tips For Selling Your "Experien ...
What if what you are selling is neither a product or a service? Most marketing advice is distributed based on the assumption that you fit one of these two categories. The unfortunate gap between them is the large category of organizations or businesses that provide an experience – which are often left out. If you
Continue reading »Are You Accidentally Sharing Your Secrets Online?
There is a character on Dilbert called Mordac. If you've seen him, you know he is a caricature of an unfortunately real person in many corporate organizations who worries solely about data security at the expense of usability, accessibility and just about anything else: We all hate Mordac. Of course, on a logical level, most
Continue reading »Sealy Admits Reality: No One Gets 8 Hours Of Sleep
In the health communications world, there are some messages that you could call prevailing. Whether or not they are true, they are the ones that seem to stick in people's minds. Messages like getting 5 servings of fruit and vegetables a day, or trying to keep your daily calories under 2000, or getting 8 hours
Continue reading »4 Social Media Ideas For The Reluctantly Social Brand
It is not easy to know where to start when it comes to social media. The stories of brands that have taken missteps with fake profiles, and become a lightning rod for negative comments are aplenty – causing more than one marketing team to take a big step back and wonder where and how best
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