Honesty marketing has shown up in many marketer’s playbook lately. Usually as the cornerstone of a crisis management campaign for an unexpected and unfortunate situation. Toyota used it because of their faulty brakes. BP needed it because of the biggest environmental disaster in US history. Domino’s had to turn decreasing sales around and confront customer...
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According to an AMI-Partners report, 70% of small business owners are using Facebook, MySpace, blogs, YouTube and Twitter.
But, what they are actually doing on social media seems to be spotty...
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Hitting a Brand’s Sweet Spot
Almost more important than figuring out what your brand stands for is actually practicing what you preach. My colleague blogged about how Wal-Mart struggles with inconsistency between brand advertising and...
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Hey marketers, need a quick way to improve sales? Listen to your customers.
Armed with a toolbox of data tracking tools and our computer, we as marketers have never been better poised to quickly learn and react to what our consumers are telling...
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