Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Brand Begins and Ends with Your Products (Or Services). I once sat in a meeting discussing a highly successful TV campaign. Underlying the discussion there’s this funny unspoken question… 0 June 29, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Want Consumers To Pay Attention To Your Ads? Make Them Meaningful. A few weeks ago I ran across this article titled “Four Reasons Why We Choose to Watch Ads”. Seemed like… 0 June 23, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email An Axiom For New Media: Big Numbers are NOT the Same as Meaningful Numbers It seems like everything we hear about the new media world is based on big numbers. Hundreds of millions of… 0 June 13, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Power to the Consumer! (At least until the next fad.) 2011 is the time of massive movement in advertising — a revolution. And this revolution restructures everything we do –… 0 June 8, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The Misleading Desire for Market Research Innovation The other day this New York Times article popped onto my radar. While I wasn’t surprised by the content, it… 0 June 5, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Incredible Deception: Using Research to Drive New Media Adoption Here’s a surprise. Facebook hired a PR agency, Burson-Marsteller, to smear Google… Oh wait. Facebook says they were just placing… 0 May 20, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Is Classic “Brand Advertising” Right for Your Brand? The advertising and marketing industry has let the term “Brand Advertising” come to mean “the only advertising that builds brand”.… 0 May 16, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The New (Old) Truth: Mass Media is the Key to Building Brands For some time, marketing has been dominated by the theory that the way to success is getting your most loyal… 0 May 5, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Do You Insult Consumer Intelligence With Entertainment Value? I wrote recently about the advertising business’s mis-understanding of the idea of “likability”. I think we have a similar problem… 0 April 29, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The Human Value of Effective Advertising There are a lot of people running around right now with utopian theories of advertising that suggest it’s most effective… 0 April 26, 2011