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

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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.

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Leo Burnett: 12 Advertising Tips That Are Still Relevant Today

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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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Marketing Meets Storytelling: 5 Reasons Brands Need Stories

By providing context, stories are an important brand association. Stories gives marketing messages and related content elements that are memorable. To help you develop stories for your brands and marketing,  5 marketing-related storytelling elements and 5 brand-related factors are outlined. Please read on ….

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