The revolutionary gravitation to social media has been ongoing for nearly two decades. In 2020, the world’s population used social media platforms for commerce, news, and personal connections and interactions every day. More than 4.2 billion people are active across multiple platforms, each spending an average of 2 hours and 25 minutes per day on...Read More

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...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

Photo Credit: Andrea Danti / Shutterstock.com Planning a proper SaaS marketing strategy is very important for a business that isn’t selling a physical product. A SaaS business needs to be consistently generating quality leads, capturing contact information, engaging the audience with authentic content, and encouraging them to take action. In the crowded SaaS arena, standing...Read More

In the summer of 2012, we learned of turmoil at JC Penney following the company’s unveiling of a completely overhauled strategy. After a devastating sales year, JC Penney is announcing that they are bringing back the sales campaigns that were scrapped in an attempt to rebrand and reposition the once proud and venerable department store....Read More

In a world of incredible scale, the internet and its power to connect us is truly amazing. The connected world is now generating mind-boggling amounts of data every minute of every day – a breadth of available data that is vast enough to hold the power to predict user behaviors and market trends. Armed with...Read More

Earlier this year, JC Penney unveiled a rebranding and a new strategy that eliminated discounts and coupons in favor of an ‘everyday’ low pricing structure along the lines of Walmart and Target. The shift didn’t necessarily come as a huge surprise, after former Michael Francis, a former Target Executive, took the reigns as president in...Read More

We see the statistics. We hear the industry buzz. Yet, many of us fail to harness the power of social media to be contextual and relevant to target consumers. What are you waiting for? Build your own country.Read More