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Spice Up Your Marketing: 12 Food-for-Thought Tips

If you’re like a lot of New Yorkers, you’re predictable when it comes to lunch. Day in and day out, you go the same restaurant or take out place and order “the usual”. Is the same true of your marketing? While this makes planning easy and low cost, do your prospects and customers find it predictable or, even worse, boring? Does advertising blindness cause them to miss your marketing because it blends in with the other messages bombarding them? If so, you’ve got a problem since you’re not maximizing results for your marketing investment. Here are twelve food-for-thought changes to spice up your marketing.
Tags: Brand, Call-to-action, marketing tips, Offer
Leo Burnett: 12 Advertising Tips That Are Still Relevant Today

Leo Burnett (October 21, 1891 – June 7, 1971) creator of legendary advertising icons such as the Jolly Green Giant, the Marlboro Man, Tony the Tiger, Morris the Cat, and the Pillsbury Dough Boy, provides lessons for marketers and advertisers alike that are still relevant in today’s world of digital devices and social media. Included are twelve quotes.
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How to Do Branding Without a Budget
Branding is important as a company’s short hand. For many executives, branding is limited to their logo and advertising. But the reality is that branding is a connective thread that extends beyond your communications and touches every aspect of your organization. Here are 21 ways to extend your brand with limited additional cost.
Tags: Brand, budget, Marketing Strategy
Why Blogs Should be at Heart of Social Media [Charts]
Blogs provide the content that is the currency of social media and the context that defines its environmental relevance for participants. As such, blogs live at the heart of an integrated social media marketing strategy. Here are 10 Reasons Why Blogs Are Critical to Your Social Media Efforts.
Tags: #smchat, blogchat, Blogs, Brand, Charts, Mack Collier, owned media, Social Media, Social media marketing
Branding: Color Inside the Lines
Color is strong. It’s visual. Color is at the heart of branding. The Mad Men got the importance of color to a brand. How do you bring color to your brand?
Branding: Not Just a Logo
With limited resources, consistent messages are key. Brands create short hand messages that customers recognize. Here are ten tips to help you create or enliven a brand.
Tags: Brand, Logo, personality, Story, Storytelling
What’s in a Name? Don’t Ask Starbucks
What’s in a name? Would that which we call Starbucks by any other name still smell like Pikes Place ® Roast? For Starbucks customers and fans, changing the logo, name or brand isn’t an insignificant question.
Tags: Brand, Harold Schultz, Logo, Starbucks
7 Tactics to Create Actionable Marketing Content
While 90% of businesses use content marketing in an average of eight different formats including many forms of social media, most marketers can’t tell if their social media efforts are effective or not. To help counter this, seven actionable content marketing recommendations are outlined. Please read on. …
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