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Image Credit: ESB Professional / Shutterstock.com In this new era of communication technologies, people are adapting and changing methods of connecting with the world. The digital age has disrupted the way we relate to families, interact with friends and make connections with brands. Content marketing is revolutionizing the way brands are connecting with customers through...Read More

Image Credit: NicoElNino / Shutterstock.com In its earliest origins, sustainable marketing strategies focused almost entirely on environmental issues. Doomsday in tone, content promoted brands’ sensitivity to fuel savings, green issues such as worldwide forest depletion, fossil fuel evils and broader concerns for global warming. The descriptive social content usually resonated from a “the sky is...Read More

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

Establishing a brand strategy focused on connecting to potential consumers is certainly nothing new. The very basis for the science of marketing is creating and communicating messages that resonate with potential customers in such a way that they are motivated to make a purchasing decision, one that favors your company’s offerings over a competitor. Eons...Read More

Image credit: mtkang / Shutterstock.com In the beginning, that time when the internet was this shiny new thing whose intention was often misunderstood and which was capable of disrupting accepted norms in conducting business and social interactions, website design focused mostly on the technology and all the gee-whiz things a talented techy could command new...Read More

Image credit NicoElNino / Shutterstock.com According to Gartner’s ”CMO Spend Survey 2018-2019,” Chief Marketing Officers(CMOs) are moving to spend more on technology in 2019 than on staffing. Marketing technology (martech) this coming year will experience a seven percent increase over 2018 with staff costs declining from 27 percent to 23 percent. The moveaway from human...Read More

The data generated and collected from smart devices, laptops, wearables and even consumer appliances is mounting. The volume of data collected is outpacing organizations’ ability to timely evaluate, measure and react effectively. Organizations are struggling to gain optimal, efficient results that permit them to take effective advantage of critical opportunities. Fractured data, collected from numerous...Read More

  Artificial intelligence (AI) in some form is growing in popularity.  The concept that machines could learn to think and interact with humans and other machines without ongoing input from human intelligence has been a hotly debated topic for decades. As server capacities, computing speeds and a proliferation of new technologies increased exponentially, the Sci-fi...Read More