Still using Microsoft Excel to manage and communicate your omnichannel marketing plan? Then you’re probably feeling the familiar frustration of constantly having to communicate changes and share key ...
Every five years the American Marketing Association rewrites its definition of marketing. The association spent more than a year soliciting input from professionals and academics, hosting forums to ...
Every so often, a discussion erupts through email that makes me really happy about my job. I have the privilege of working with, interviewing, and connecting with some really smart people. Recently, I ...
Too often, CEOs and CMOs are not aligned on marketing’s role. Is it because they are speaking in synonyms, both saying “marketing” but meaning different things? “Marketing is everything and everything ...
Last month at the TS2 Show I taught a class about lessons learned as a trade show marketer. After all the other students had left, a young exhibit manager approached me and asked, “Everybody in my ...
Whether a company manufacturers or buys products wholesale, it has to have a product marketing strategy to get its products into consumers' hands. Most product marketing strategies begin with an idea ...
Marketers frequently talk about "quality," "value," "strategy," "performance," "reputation," "position," and "branding"—all of them important concepts. However ...
The American Marketing Association has redefined the word "marketing," to reflect its broader role in society. The new definition reads: "Marketing is the activity, set of institutions and processes ...
Demonstrating accountability and ROI continue to be front and center among the demands placed on sports marketers in justifying their investments. Yet, I continue to be underwhelmed by the means with ...
B2B marketers must “stop whining” and prove their value, according to Cytiva’s vice-president of marketing, Conor McKechnie. “Marketing is misunderstood. Nobody loves us. Nobody gives us money. Stop,” ...