Tag Archives: Junction

Marketers Going Boom or Bust?

It can be said that perception is the most persistent and deceitful form of truth, often grounded in myth and mischaracterization, and sometimes founded on generational prejudice.  In an attempt to allocate marketing spend efficiently and effectively, marketers must make assumptions about the method and methodology of reaching significant and specific market segments.  The accepted [...]

Search for Dear Ol’ Dad

Father’s Day, seemingly a hidden holiday for many retailers and consumers, is a marketing opportunity that represented $12.7 billion in 2012.  Because 80% of Father’s Day shoppers wait until the week before the big day to make a purchase, marketers have an opportunity to better optimize search ads and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) strategies to [...]

Evolving to a New Reality in B2B Selling

Interacting socially with potential customers has long been an important element in a successful selling strategy, particularly when selling business to business (B2B).  Building personal relationships, within market or industry segments, has proven to be paramount to forming long term relationships with customers and often was the aspect of selling where a salesperson best demonstrated [...]

Nineteen Eighty-Four, No More

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a society that is under complete surveillance. Since its publication, inferences are made to the idea of “Big Brother” when discussing the government’s use or misuse of power as it relates to civil liberties. And yet, as technology becomes completely contextual, individuals are embracing the trend. SoLoMo was just the [...]

The New Age of #Social Responsibility One Tweet at a Time

Social Media is offering unprecedented opportunities for users, companies, individuals, pun dents and proponents of all causes deemed appropriate of championing to creatively voice their message.  Social media marketing is leading connections with friends, family, customers and comrades all over the world, at a pace showing little indication of slowing down. With the benefits and [...]

What’s Your SCRM Strategy?

Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and is reliant on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create , discuss, and modify user-generated content.  It introduces substantial and pervasive changes [...]

Great Turnout at Junction Sponsored Third Annual Optimist Club of Gettysburg Golf Tournament

Junction Creative Solutions (Junction), an award-winning strategic agency, sponsored the 3rd Annual Golf Tournament hosted by the Optimist Club of Gettysburg, on Thursday, May 23rd in Gettysburg, PA. Junction has worked closely with and admires the Optimist Club and supports their 19 youth-oriented programs that are financially backed by the Club. What started out as [...]

The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread…Or Is It?

In 1928, sliced bread hit the shelves marketed at the “greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.”  The development became the universal benchmark for greatness, mostly for its improvement of convenience and utilization of a basic dietary staple, becoming the ingenuity that we refer to when discussing the best of innovation [...]

Learning to Better Communicate from a Master

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, garnishes record approval and favor among all races, political parties, social economic categories, ethnic groups and gender more than 150 years after being elected to a second term to office in 1864.  His first term saw his leadership challenged by America’s only Civil War, one that [...]

Resilience Not Performance is the New Metric for Business

Ask any business professional in business for more than 20 years, the story is sure to include a part about surviving an economic recession.  Just as well established as business growth cycles, these periods of economic famine, panic, shake-out and even demise are a natural occurring event in commercial economic history.  However, if you ask [...]