Image Credit: Dusit / Shutterstock.com One long established philosophy in business has been, “You can almost never save your way to profitability.” For decades, the edict assured that marketing and advertising efforts were the last disciplines to receive the axe when the time came to make the inevitable cuts to expenses in order to maximize...Read More

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a strategy that a marketer uses to facilitate customer interaction with their company.  One of the most common CRM strategies is customer service cards, where customers are offered special purchase discounts or cumulative purchase points which can be exchanged for rewards and special benefits.   However, with the increased use and...Read More

Julie Gareleck, CEO & Managing Partner of Atlanta-based strategy firm Junction Creative Solutions (Junction), spoke on a panel of senior marketers representing the nation’s largest financial firms with on Wednesday, January 16th in New York, NY. The event, JFAM:FORUM-NYC, was the first major conference of 2013 hosted by The Gramercy Institute’s Journal of Financial Advertising...Read More

Don’t forget – this morning, Junction CEO & Managing Partner Julie Gareleck is speaking on an expert panel with representatives from some of the world’s largest financial firms at JFAM:FORUM-NYC in New York City. It is the first major conference of the year hosted by The Gramercy Institute’s Journal of Financial Advertising and Marketing, and the panelists...Read More

In this series, we will explore some less-frequently discussed ideas about running a successful business utilizing the experiences of real CEOs.  In this first installment, we find some wisdom from Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos. After selling internet advertising startup LinkExchange.com to Microsoft for $265 million in 1999, Tony Hsieh joined Zappos as an investor,...Read More

Junction is pleased to announce its presence at the JFAM:FORUM-NYC, the first major conference of 2013 hosted by The Gramercy Institute’s Journal of Financial Advertising and Marketing, on Wednesday, January 16th in New York, NY. CEO & Managing Partner Julie Gareleck will join senior leaders from top financial brands including JPMorgan Chase, Prudential, Morgan Stanley,...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

They are some of the most common complaints heard across America each and every year. “Christmas music? Already?!,” you might hear. Or, “Holiday Sales? It’s not even Thanksgiving yet!” In October, the National Retail Federation (NRF) said it expects holiday sales to rise 4.1% in 2012 to totals approaching $580 billion. Even in times where the...Read More