Marketing professionals spend thousands of dollars to make their promotional materials look perfect. Layout, type fonts, images, color — everything is scrutinized and painstakingly reviewed until it’s ready to represent the brand out in the public. Imagine my surprise when I saw this hanging on my front door. Notice the black marker redacting out […]
Nobody likes to think of something going wrong in the marketing department. The wrong ad ran. Product data or legal terms are out of date. Mistakes are broadcast and unfortunately the in-bound callcenter, dealers and online customer service all feel the heat. Upset dealers and injury to the brand are likely the result if not corrected quickly. […]
Any new idea must provide advantages to all parties in the ecosystem where it lives, or else it won’t be adopted. We saw this in the late 1990’s with a new idea: Digital Print. It was a compelling idea, but printers didn’t want to decrease the volume on their offset presses. Agencies said it was […]
This is a tough one. On one hand, there may be small media markets where your dealers insist they are best reached by a small newspaper. Rural markets would be one example. While that may be true to some extent, those rural markets have also seen a tremendous growth in online usage, while all […]
Owned media is any published content controlled by a brand or channel partner; typically their website and Facebook site and other social media. Earned media exposure is the buzz created through interest generated by frequent updates, promotions, pass-along readership and is generated by users, customers and friends of the site. This is one of […]
The biggest challenge for those responsible for marketing organizations today is addressing the consumer transformation from traditional to online. That’s not just me saying that, a recent CMO survey by Accenture reported that. They surveyed over 400 senior marketing officers in 10 countries and found that 7 in 10 CMOs expect the marketing function to […]
Local advertising is changing in many ways and Borrell Associates has been tracking the way local retailers are spending their local advertising dollars and the move to spending on local promotions is very clear from this chart. You can download this chart here and from the Executive Summary you’ll read where Borrell Associates feels that […]
If you’re involved in local advertising you’re naturally interested in the viability of local newspapers. As consumers move online and away from the printed copies of newspapers, the papers built great internet sites for consumers. Unfortunately, the banner ad revenue never equaled the decline in print advertising so they went to the idea of paywalls […]
Many brands spend lots of time and money on their brand site and leave their best dealers to fend for themselves when it comes to online content for their sites. Here is an interesting chart from an article on eMarketer.com that shows that consumers shopping for a car are as likely to be influenced by […]
Newspaper ad sales continue to fall as Google ad sales continue to climb. The chart shown here is from a post on Reflections of a Newsosaur and clearly makes the case that ad dollars are going digital at the expense of printed newspaper ads. This still understates the move from print to digital because so […]