Pages from Our Notebook

Image Credit: Chinnapong / Shutterstock.com In the beginning, it promised a new era of opportunity to advance the cause of free enterprise; a new pathway that promised a level field of competition where industries would compete for customers regardless of size, and where small, more disadvantaged marketers could meet larger, better-capitalized players on more even ground. It predicted that small,...

Image Credit: Ascannio / Shutterstock.com It was a potentially explosive announcement for social media marketing, but it would appear that for advertisers and marketers, who rely on social media platforms to connect with customers, the news barely received notice. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced in December that they would be filing antitrust legislation against the largest social media platform...

Image Credit: Blue Planet Studio / Shutterstock.com To many, it seems that it is a really bad time to even ask the question: Is now (2021) a good time to start a new business? Bad economies come and go every decade or so, but worldwide pandemics come along about once every hundred years, at least that’s the current historic experience....

Image Credit: Parilov / Shutterstock The pandemic of 2020 spared very few industries and marketers from its wrath. Forced closures and lockdowns altered the very fundamentals of long-standing business models that were often static for decades. For the fitness industry, the broad swath of disruption by everything tech was changing its landscape long before the arrival of COVID-19, but loyal brick...

Image Credit: 13_Phunkod / Shutterstock.com Well, here we are again. Each year regardless of the particular discipline, organization leaders reflect upon the past year’s experiences to plan and predict future endeavors. For those of us who practice the art and science of marketing, the best thing we can say about 2020 is that we made it through. Not just the...