• Once Upon A Brand

    April 10, 2013 by Ben Noble

    Do you know the story about the Three Little Pigs? Could you recite the story if I asked? Could you tell me the moral? If I had to guess, I’d say you answered yes to all three questions. Let’s try another quiz. What was the last infomercial you saw? What were some of the features and benefits of that product? If I had to guess…

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  • Similar Strokes for Different Folks

    March 14, 2013 by Beth Handrigan

    A young single adult, living with two roommates—a stay-at-home mom with three children under six—a busy professional who works 14-hour days… What could these three types of people possibly have in common? Questions of this caliber haunt marketing executives day-in and day-out. They sit at their desks into the late hours of the night with a solitary lamp and a cold cup of coffee, unsure…

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  • The Ice Cream Man is Coming!: The Race to Radial Marketing

    February 13, 2013 by Jim Goodyear

    That song. Still as much a part of summer as swimming pools, picnics and sandlot baseball. A Pavlovian auditory announcement that a frozen, delicious treat is right around the corner…literally. Kids (some of us still are) hear that famous mouthwateringly melodic message and immediately slip into a state of euphoric, near-hysteria. Doesn’t matter if you’re sitting on the couch watching cartoons in just the top half…

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  • A Sip of the Social Soda Saga

    February 6, 2013 by Logan Ice

    Think back almost 40 years—the year is 1975. Coke has as much of a grip on the Cola market as Band-aid has on the adhesive bandage market or Kleenex has on facial tissues. While the company had only been around for 10 years longer than the newly renamed Pepsi, it still owned the lion’s share of the market. Pepsi did something unheard of at the…

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  • Stick Out

    January 17, 2013 by Logan Ice

    So you want to engage with your audience and expand your fan base, but your market is saturated with ads coming from every agency known to man, whizzing past you left and right with seemingly no target? Sounds like the same song every company around is singing right now. You can hardly go anywhere without seeing dozens of barely aimed messages barreling towards you. Logging…

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