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How can marketing professions prepare for a recession while realizing that there is no room for squandering precious marketing dollars? As our B2C audience becomes more frugal when buying, our B2B folks will follow suit. Will the discount giants, filled with cash, be the only companies to survive a depressed economy? As a marketer, how…

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What does the American Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 have to do with commercial websites in 2019? This isn’t the setup for a lame corporate joke. The truth is, the law created on the cusp of the internet age is very relevant to today’s digital properties and ignoring it could put your business at risk…

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In recent years, people have increased their mobile device use exponentially. But you only have to step outside to see that: Just about anywhere you go nowadays, it’s not that difficult to find at least one person doing something on their phone or tablet. In fact, recent studies show that people spend at least five…

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Last week, as I stood on a New York City subway while it was barreling downtown, it occurred to me how each and every person within sight was staring at, listening to or tapping on their mobile device. To those of us centered in marketing, it is no secret that mobile is a major disruption…

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The choice to produce your own advertising program or hire an outside agency will depend on many things – and every organization has its own needs. In either case, you’ll never go wrong if you work with passionate, dedicated and creative people. For at least one generation of business, companies have struggled with the question…

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[imageframe lightbox=”no” style_type=”” bordercolor=”” bordersize=”0px” stylecolor=”” align=”right” animation_type=”fade” animation_direction=”down” animation_speed=”0.1″ class=”” id=””][/imageframe] Brain functions and why they matter to marketers Having spent over 30 years in the marketing business, I’ve seen many changes. The tactics we use, the metrics we calculate and the strategies for approaching project goals have all evolved into a myriad of…wonder.…

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Call it serendipity, but I recently experienced a real-world example that supports the subject of my previous blog. That one dealt with the erosion of service on the part of traditional brick-and-mortar retailers forced to compete with warehouse discounters and online retailers. My basic premise was that decreasing margins and high overhead must ultimately result…

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[imageframe lightbox=”no” style_type=”none” bordercolor=”” bordersize=”0px” stylecolor=”” align=”right” animation_type=”0″ animation_direction=”down” animation_speed=”0.1″ class=”” id=””][/imageframe] How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Brother Well, maybe not “love” exactly, but at least peacefully coexist and accept the new realities of privacy and security in the digital era (apologies to Dr. Strangelove). I can’t verify it, but I’m…

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[imageframe lightbox=”no” style_type=”none” bordercolor=”” bordersize=”0px” stylecolor=”” align=”right” animation_type=”0″ animation_direction=”down” animation_speed=”0.1″ class=”” id=””][/imageframe] Okay, that might seem like an odd question to be coming from someone who has been involved in advertising and marketing communications for more than 40 years. The perspective that my long tenure provides, however, is what brings the query to mind. On…

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[imageframe lightbox=”no” style_type=”none” bordercolor=”” bordersize=”0px” stylecolor=”” align=”right” animation_type=”0″ animation_direction=”down” animation_speed=”0.1″ class=”” id=””][/imageframe] He opened the first department store in Philadelphia, is credited with inventing the price tag, and he may well have created the idea of the seasonal sale. In 1874 he became the first retailer to place a half-page newspaper ad, and the first…

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