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It’s not every day that I come across a mind-blowing marketing communications statistic. I found one on Kiss Metrics’ site that I must share with you. Approximately 96% of visitors that come to your website are not ready to buy. Thanks, But I'm Just Browsing To move casual browsers of company information toward a purchase, marketing professor and mini-MBA man Mark Ritson suggests more effective uses of the …
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Diminish a once-powerful industry and lose all respect inside and outside the agency. What is influencer marketing? What is programmatic? What is artificial intelligence? There is a virulent strain of stupid on the loose in the business world today. The disease leads those infected to strip the soul of creativity from the marketing communications industry. Whether it's a content marketing disciple …
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Someone moved the ad industry's cheese. The various reactions from industry leaders have been slow and haphazard at best, but that's starting to change. The World Federation of Advertisers has formed the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media. “In the ancient story of the Tower of Babel, the city collapsed because its inhabitants lost the ability to speak a common language,” says Bill Tucker, Group EVP …
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Two advertising professionals and OG ad critics enter a podcast recording booth... Tune in now to find out what was said. This ep of the adland podcast I chat with @davidburn of @adpulp about trademarks (like adland) paying people for their work, digital debris and much more. Namechecked the @adcontrarian more than once. :) https://t.co/h06dmkJLPN — Åsk Dabitch (@dabitch) August 14, 2020 We discuss the …
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This new article in our Emerging Voices Series is made possible by the generous support of Adpulp's patrons on Patreon. Please join us and help pay writers. Corporations have been wrestling with an innovation problem for decades. Some of the most well-known are infamous for it, with an innovation strategy that appears to downright steal ideas or absorb innovative upstarts into venture funds and incubator …
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Humble. That's for the other guy. Marketing communications is about making bold moves and persuasive creative that builds brand value. Marcom is about shining a bright light on the one reason why the product or service in question matters. For years, the best brand communicators deftly approached the problem with wit and charm. The worst offenders, on the other hand, just stood there and pounded their …
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