(source – Wikimedia) We love stories like this. Of course, we don’t mean we love the stress and compromise of personal information that millions of customers have had to endure in the wake of the […]
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Goal Setting and Big Data
The ability for companies to quickly gather massive amounts of data about consumers has truly exploded over the last few years. Imagine a buffet that suddenly expanded its offerings 100 times over! But can a […]
Boosting Your Brand by Acknowledging its Limitations
(geekyrant.com, 2013) Let us explain. Or rather, let us share our thoughts on an idea floated in a really interesting piece from this past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. What Ms. Havrilesky is referring to […]
The Marketing of Junk Food
Rather than share the deluge of articles (from multiple POVs), we thought we’d put together a fun exercise this weekend to put some students in the driver’s seat at a major junk food company. […]
Here Come the Oscars…
(Digital Spy, 2013) We love this time of year. The curtain will rise on the film industry’s biggest night this coming Sunday and that means some excellent reporting and number-crunching hitting the wires, with two […]
The Marketing Value of WhatsApp for Facebook
$19 Billion. It is not a bad day to be a stakeholder in the mobile messaging company started by Jan Koum and Brian Acton in 2009. Facebook’s purchase of the CA-based start-up is a clear […]
Microsoft Makes Changes at the Top
(WSJ, 2014) Big changes announced yesterday at Microsoft, as Bill Gates relinquished his chairmanship and the company finally named its new CEO. Mr. Satya Nadella, who most recently ran the company’s enterprise unit, has been […]
Super Sunday Thoughts
(source – Forbes, 2014) For those of us whose business is marketing and more specifically, advertising, it is always interesting to see a part of it jump into the national spotlight this time of year. […]
Believing in the “Big Box”
We know what you are thinking – what company could possibly be jumping into the big box retail market in the face of mounting evidence that consumers are doing their shopping elsewhere? Hasn’t recent history […]
Rockstar in the Cross Hairs
An interesting article in Politico this week (link below) raises some important questions regarding branding and messaging. Rockstar Catches Heat Over Marketing What are the ethical issues raised by Rockstar potentially promoting its product to […]
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