Each September the sport of football appears as certain as the sun rises each day from the East. From the smallest members of Midget Football League, to Friday nights under the lights at the local high school to college campuses all across America, the sport and business of American football pulls in millions of spectators...Read More

It’s one of the most resilient “bird-in-hand/two-in-bush” arguments. What is the most valuable business marketing approach, customer retention or customer acquisition? It seems like it may be a trick question in that most believe that the only correct answer is that both are equally important. The advent of relevantly inexpensive, multichannel, digital communications has many...Read More

Inclusion is something that has been at the forefront of business and social conversations for years. Businesses have become accustomed to rules that have been initiated to establish an order of fairness; a common set of regulations to ensure equal participation in the physical and virtual commercial environments. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was...Read More

It is hard to believe that anyone on the face of the earth would fail to recognize at least one of them. They come in the form of service clubs, societies, funds, religions, foundations, and associations, to name just a few. Unlike “for-profit” businesses, the organization’s goal is not to make money from selling a...Read More

For over a year, warnings have been sounded that one of the greatest challenges for data collectors and marketers in 2021 will be complying with regulations concerning the collection and use of consumer data. After the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted in Europe in 2018, many initially believed that the regulation was something...Read More

From the very beginning of the modern marketing era, one constant factor in advertising and a marketer’s broader efforts to connect with consumers was the inability to know, with any degree of certainty, the real impact the efforts had on a company’s success. Identifying the most or least valued media channel or message was a...Read More

E-commerce spending by consumers has been on the increase for nearly two decades as consumers embrace the convenience, cost, and variety available from a home computer, laptop, or mobile device. In 2020, consumers spent more than $861 billion on purchases from online merchants. E-commerce now represents 21.3% of all retail sales. During a year when...Read More

Image Credit: 13_Phunkod / Shutterstock.com As the internet exploded upon the scene a couple of decades ago and millions of users let the world know who and where they were on the web, the whole of commerce initiated promotional campaigns utilizing emails. Much like direct mail marketing surged after the first street address was published,...Read More

Image Credit: Who is Danny / Shutterstock.com At Junction Creative Solutions (Junction), we believe that communication is the most fundamental aspect of any marketing strategy. Content is how we communicate, and smart and strategic content differentiates a good brand from the most respected brands. Building trust and confidence with authentic content is the gold standard...Read More

Image Credit: Daniel Constante / Shutterstock.com At the end of each year, the Junction Creative Solutions (Junction) team members are asked to reveal a few things that have become favorites this year. “Things” by definition as a noun are; objects, articles, items, commodities, or gadgets. So, you can see that a “thing” can cover a...Read More