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Are You Staying Ahead of Trend with Your Marketing Strategy?

March 21, 2013 – 11:45 am

With the ever changing field of digital technology and the ever increasingly savvy consumer, it is imperative that marketers stay focused on what techniques are working best and what strategies are showing signs of decay and obsolescence. In a 2012 article in iMedia Connection, author Kent Lewis outlined seven strategies that were passé and obsolete. [...]

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Honest Abe

January 10, 2013 – 12:55 pm

Directed by Steven Spielberg and featuring a cast of acclaimed actors headlined by the venerable Daniel Day Lewis, the recently released film Lincoln was destined to be a big hit at the box office. What was less expected, however, was how resonating the film would be as a master class on leadership. Anyone familiar with [...]

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A Year in Review

January 3, 2013 – 12:45 pm

A Snapshot of our Blog in 2012 2012 was truly a year worthy of conversation. Facebook’s IPO opened the world’s eyes to a new understanding of social media, mobile technology continued to grow and captured more of our attention and our dollars, the Summer Olympic Games unfolded in London, Hurricane Sandy became the most digitally [...]

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Who Are the Experts?

December 20, 2012 – 10:51 am

Although the dawn of all things digital began back in the late 1990s, it has truly just in the last handful of years that we have entered a definitively new era of marketing brought on by internet technologies. From our perspective in the present, it is evident that there has been a transition from what [...]

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Testing the Pressure: The Consumer Barometer

November 27, 2012 – 4:26 pm

Marketers from the “golden age” of advertising have had their legend inflated to great heights by television’s Mad Men. But no matter how cool they were (or at least seem to us today), those executives would be green with envy at our ability to collect, measure, and react to data in the 21st century. Of [...]

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Attention All Shoppers

August 14, 2012 – 1:40 pm

Over the course of the past decade, the retail industry has arguably undergone more change than it had in the previous century. Entrepreneurs like Rowland Macy and Richard Sears probably never could have envisioned their modest businesses blossoming into a more than $4 trillion industry in the US in less than 100 years. The rise [...]

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Sharing A Social Snapshot

June 7, 2012 – 2:20 pm

Two months after Facebook announced the acquisition of the mobile photo editing and sharing app Instagram for $1B in cash, the social media giant has become the favorite subject of scrutiny in the financial media. The 10-figure purchase was made in anticipation of an IPO on the NASDAQ; part of a feverish run up to [...]

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