Real time marketing is the process of monitoring consumer responses to marketing messaging and then adapting campaign content and tactics in real time.Read More

Participation marketing stands out from traditional marketing approaches by encouraging active participation and interaction from consumers.Read More

The Thursday after Thanksgiving still produces more than 20 percent of a retailer’s annual revenue. Last year shoppers spent $196.7 million on Black Friday.Read More

Failing to plan and prepare holiday marketing campaigns in a timely manner can not only ensure costly inefficiencies but will likely give the competition a head start.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

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

Rebranding appears to be a marketing strategy that is on the uptick across the world. It’s not so much the number or volume of organizations that are seeking to reidentify themselves, as it is the icons of industries that are finally undergoing a makeover after decades of staying the course. Together, visible brand elements such...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: Voloshyna Anna / Shutterstock.com It is next to impossible to overstate the importance of the holiday shopping season to the success or failure of consumer businesses. The annual, year-end selling season has become the last opportunity for many businesses to salvage some positive results in an unprecedented year of negative challenges and unforeseen...Read More

Amazon Prime Day debuted on July 15, 2015, as a way for e-seller Amazon to boost sales during what is typically a slow sales period. The annual campaign is targeted towards Amazon Prime members who pay as much as $119.00 per year for the privilege and benefits of an Amazon Prime membership. In the initial...Read More