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Extinct Volcano Prompts Potential Craft Beer Shortage. Yes, it is possible for something as simple as carbon dioxide to be in scarce supply even though it’s all around us. A unique location in the United States is actually responsible for a carbon dioxide shortage that may dramatically impact small brewers. The resulting CO2 shortage…
Read MorePowerful Digital Marketing Trends Driving Consumer Behavior in 2022
With the massive growth in digital media over the last few years consumers have evolved in how and where they get their media. The pandemic may have accelerated this “experience” shift but it’s essential marketers understand this and are nimble and flexible in how they approach reaching consumers.
Read MoreWhen Less is More –
Brand Identity and Marketing Work Best When They Are Visual And Simple. What do you remember? It’s always those brand identities connected with a highly visual campaign that conveys a simple, emotional, and evocative connection. Whether B2C or B2B customers. The visual image associated with the brand creates a powerful connection. It’s how humans work.…
Read MoreThe New Workplace – Hybrid Everything
Where will people work and live? The big question post-pandemic, if there is really a post-pandemic, is where people will work and live? Ongoing discussions on workers returning to the office continue while occupancy rates for office space in downtown Manhattan, the Chicago Loop, and Downtown SF remain well below pre-pandemic levels. Where’s this all…
Read MoreTalking to People
Why Human-Centered Marketing and Branding Connects.There’s a new way to view marketing and branding. It’s not just about products and cool tech solutions but communicating and connecting with individuals…
Read MoreDon’t Monkey Around with Brand Perceptions
Walmart Pulls Coconut Milk Amid Monkey Labor Allegations. Chained monkeys were trained to quickly climb palms and pick the coconuts for Thai coconut milk brands. Although they were rewarded with food for their labor, animal rights organizations got involved and have been calling this “monkey slave labor”. In 2019, PETA investigators in Asia surfaced several…
Read MoreInvading Hordes
Changes that come suddenly, that are overwhelming and life-changing, can destroy a world of familiarity and predictability but innovation often rises from this destruction to form new business models. When the unexpected visitors arrive. In 793 at Lindisfarne, in northern England, a small monastery of monks going about their monkish business is attacked in the…
Read MoreMore than Digital: Connecting with People
It’s Time to Transform Marketing into People Connecting. How and when you connect with existing and potential customers is not about just sending constant emails out. Why inundate people with your content? It’s common for brands, as it is for people, to want to talk about themselves. We’ve all had interesting and fascinating people in…
Read MoreStrategic Ambiguity
Sometimes An Intentional Lack of Clarity Is Exactly What a Brand Needs. From Coca-Cola to Dunkin Donuts to the global consulting firm Prophet, many companies from consumer-level to B2B are becoming, well, less specific about what they actually sell or do. Coca-Cola Company has far more of its sales in the myriad of beverage brands…
Read MoreMcDonald’s Wants to Know You, The importance of Customer Engagement, and Netflix Falls Off a Cliff
Fries, a Shake, and a Big Mac. You may think when you order at a McDonald’s they know all about you. Not really, but boy, do they care. With the challenges of the pandemic, supply chain shortages and price increases, keeping customers engaged and coming back became a challenge. Many retailers, and now McDonald’s, have…
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