TrendWatch.com is one of your favorite places to find interesting (and quite accurate) consumer trends. They offer a free consumer trend brief for their blog followers, and this last December they offered a great post on the 12 most important consumer trends of 2012....
I recently received an email newsletter from a company that I was interested in following in pure text format. No photos, no signatures. no graphics, and absolutely no reason to read it. Now, I am interested in finding out more about this company and the surely...
So often in marketing, companies tend to get into the competitive mindset. Listing off reasons why you're better than the other guys is always tempting. In fact, it's the obvious and normal thing to do. After all, if you can grab some else's business from right under...
We’re in the middle of a 4-part series about the 4P’s of marketing and how they relate to local and online companies. In case you missed the last two posts, the 4 P’s are a framework that have guided marketing decisions for the last 50 years in most successful...
We’re in the middle of a 4-part series about the 4P’s of marketing and how they relate to local and online companies. In case you missed Tuesday’s post, the 4 P’s are a framework that have guided marketing decisions for the last 50 years in most successful marketing...
The marketing community has revolved a main concept for the last 50 years. In the move from the production mindset to marketing/value mindset, Jerry McCarthy created a framework as a way for marketing managers to guide their marketing campaigns and efforts. This...
No two customers are alike. Even if they look exactly the same, each customer has a unique set of needs, relationships, schedule, existing assets, and pocketbooks. To not segment these customers into different groups with different needs will result in lost sales,...
There are two kinds of marketers: First, the used car salesman. The used car salesman wants cars off the lot. He doesn't care if they're right for the customer or if they're the right price, he/she cares only if they are off the lot and there is a check in his pocket....
Marketing is a tricky thing. On one hand, the idea is to bring in more paying customers (or non-paying supporters) to your organization by spreading the word using one of a thousand methods of marketing. The problem is that most marketing methods aren't directly...
They come to us from Japan where they are very common. QR is short for Quick Response (they can be read quickly by a cell phone). They are used to take a piece of information from a transitory media and put it in to your cell phone. You may soon see QR Codes in a...