If you’re not alert, it’s easier than ever to be snookered these days. You are trying to reduce your environmental impact and so you specify your new brochure should be on certified “green” paper. Environmental certifications on paper products are helpful because they can reassure us that we’re making sound purchasing decisions. But not all [...]
Measure what matters. You've probably heard the phrase more than once, because it's one of those admonitions that resonate as common sense. But as the talk turns to analytics, scorecards, metrics, KPIs and such in the day-to-day world of implementing marketing plans and PR campaigns, you suddenly realize it can be a lot harder to [...]
For years, studies have shown that providing incentive programs to consumers is a strong way to motivate them to engage in the behaviors you desire. Whether you want to encourage upgrading a purchase or taking a survey, your brand offers an incentive program to give consumers a tangible benefit for their efforts. Incentive programs can [...]
Contests are a great way of generating interest and expanding your reach to a target audience. If you want to increase web traffic, reward customers, and gain some new contacts to add to your marketing efforts, then you might want to consider having a contest or sweepstakes give-away.
Does traditional direct mail still work? It seems that everywhere you look there is a chance to win an iPad, new car or $10,000. It’s become difficult even to surf the web without being bombarded with 1995-style flashing banner ads begging the user to click for a chance to win or better yet, [...]
Image via Wikipedia I’ll never forget the time when my then-five-year-old daughter asked a question at the dinner table. Neither my husband or I knew the answer, so she chirped, “Let’s Google it!” She got up from the table and headed for the computer. My husband and I looked at each other half smiling, half [...]
While there are many resources available on how to select a marketing agency, (aka advertising agency, creative shop or PR firm), there is very little information on how to make the relationship work effectively once you have made your decision. After many years on both the client and the agency side of such relationships, I've [...]
