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Oh, You Need A Plan to Create Your Plan (A Free Sample Marketing Plan, Plan)

Remember, my last blog encouraged you “to plan your own new reality” for 2011 and I promised your regular updates!  And, I missed my own deadline just like you will miss deadlines in the planning process.  But, I know you have been collecting and analyzing external data as I suggested. (more…)

Math: Miserable and Magnificent

I have never been exactly reticent about my deficiencies in math and logic.  I mean, I’m really well rounded, but I won’t lie: I often add and subtract on my fingers; ask my phone to calculate percentages in line at the Macy’s One Day Sale; and so help me, please do not ask me what year it was 33 years ago.  I will look at you as if I’m resolutely working out the numbers in my head; but if I were a cartoon, my eyes would be crossed and you would see birds circling my head. I don’t know the answer, and 9 times out of 10, I don’t care. (more…)

Don’t Just Sit There – Plan for Your New Reality!

Today’s markets and business environment is both challenging and confusing.  So, as CEO or CMO, you can’t just sit there worrying about today’s new reality – you have to plan your own new reality.  With all you are facing, there has never been a more critical time to develop the best, most comprehensive marketing plan in your company’s history.

Why?  A good marketing plan focuses resources and efforts. (more…)

They call it Pre-tailing.

I just returned from Food Marketing Institute where they commonly talk about Pre-tailing.  It is when consumers use the Internet to shop and compare retail and online products or use social media to ask their friends for advice when making a buying decision. (more…)

Classic marketing. Brilliant execution.

I just finished reading “Game Change” by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It’s a great read for anyone interested in national politics. It’s also an intriguing read for those involved in marketing as the authors describe in great detail the well-crafted presidential marketing campaign executed by Barack Obama. Regardless of your political preferences, the Obama campaign will long be considered a case history on brand marketing. After all, politics, for the most part, is marketing. As a newcomer to the American stage, this unlikely candidate first defeated the well established Clinton machine, then went on to beat the well known, well respected war hero, John McCain.

Putting politics aside, marketers would do well to take a few pages out of Obama’s marketing playbook.  Why? It’s classic marketing with a flourish. Here are a few of the keys to Obama’s election marketing success; each can be related to your own business. (more…)

Reaching Out to Your Targeted Customer

In earlier blogs, I illustrated that business people in their 50s and 60s are using the Internet – on average – nine hours a week.  In my last blog, we shared an article from Forbes that clearly states “C-suite” executives use the Internet to do research – and about half of those executives do their own research.  This led me to conclude that, “combining relevant web content and search engine optimization is the very essence of a strong Internet presence today.” (more…)

B2B – Business Use of Internet

Remember my first blog?  Over half of those 45 -54 and 33% between 55 and 64 use the Internet 9 hrs. per week.  Internet access/usage rises steadily with education and income levels.  In addition, an IAB 2006 study found that:

  • 93% of business decision makers use the Internet for business every day and most of them have taken action as result of seeing an ad on a B2B website.
  • 84% of business people use the Internet to research products and 71% buy products.
  • Forbes/Insight reports the Internet is the C-suite’s top information resource for locating business-related information
  • Over half C-suite execs search for information themselves and continue “clicking around” to locate the right information
  • The “researcher” needs information to “sell” others in the decision-making path – provide the information needed and they will become your champion.

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Bowser = Marketing Genius

In honor of it being close to the weekend, I’m going to go with a fun post:

Do you know about Bowser, the Miniature Schnauzer?

Meet Bowser.

Bowser came into my life when he was seven weeks old. I was fresh out of college, adjusting to living on my own and the 40-hour workweek. He fit in the palm of my hand and looked more like a rat than a puppy.

Anyway, I was looking at Bowser the other night (he’s now almost three years old and gets fatter every day), and I was thinking that Bowser knows the secrets to all anyone really needs to know about marketing. After the jump, allow me to explain. (more…)

All for the Cost of One Employee: Marketing Services Solutions

It is a simple concept. For about the cost of one employee, we provide all the talent, know-how, and capabilities needed to create and manage your entire marketing program or campaign. This approach allows companies, associations, or governmental agencies to retain high-level marketing expertise and the writers, graphic designers, project managers, and video producers required to implement marketing projects or campaigns. (more…)

New Tricks – and Direct Mail Campaign – for ‘Dogwood’

O’Neill Communications has sniffed out a fresh new campaign for Dogwood Veterinary Hospital & Laser Center – a series of direct mail postcards that detail the great attributes of the Newnan-based animal clinic! (more…)

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