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A Potentially Perfect Pitch Process

Sitting down to watch “The Pitch” series has been truly educational.  I mean I know those types of meetings exist, obviously I have watched them for this class. When I was little and my friends and I would sit around … Continue reading

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How Siri-ously do you take your Privacy?

Hey there. Are you listening…? Well, your phone is. Last week I was at a party and talking about the cake, which was made by Nothing Bundt Cakes. Everyone loved it and was talking about how much we loved it. … Continue reading

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Is AI technology the answer for brands to tackle a societal crisis?

You will never find a shortage of organizations dealing with a crisis that is spread out throughout the news. Recently, Levi Strauss took a stand against gun control and gun violence (washington post, 2018), Nike sponsorship of Colin Kaepernick became … Continue reading

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Is it Time for a Shift in Advertising?

Over the past several years advertising has been heavily under attack. Print advertising is being closely examined under a microscope more so than other media outlets due to the strong stereotypical representations of femininity and consumption displayed in ad contents. … Continue reading

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Are the 4Ps old news, or merely rapidly expanding in meaning?

Marketing has become a novel field in this century, attributed mainly to the advent of social media and the digital evolution that has turned marketing from local to international with brands becoming global commodities (Ries, 2017). The future is still … Continue reading

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You Don’t Really Have To Care, Just Act Like You Do!

It’s the weekend. You’re going out with your pals and you know that adult beverages will be involved. So what do you do? You call a Lyft like the responsible adult you are! But Lyft is claiming that they what … Continue reading

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Marketing that doesn’t feel like marketing.

Activate your Authenticity. We’ve all been bombarded with annoying advertisements and therefore we ourselves know what we will not tolerate when it comes to buying into someone else’s hype on the internet. Yet when it comes to doing our own … Continue reading

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Ding, Dong, the Funnel is Dead! Customer Delight and Marketing Integration

Shout it from the rooftops, the funnel is dead! At least, that’s what inbound marketing folks have been telling us for the past several years. Each time the funnel nearly-dies, some suspiciously similar shaped diagram clambers to take its place. … Continue reading

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Fake news and advertising strategy

It’s not an original thought that the perpetuation of the idea of fake news is breeding an underlying sense of distrust among consumers. We’re reticent to believe what the media is telling us so what makes advertising any different? If … Continue reading

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What’s in a Name?: Recent Examples of Name-Changing Brands

It sounds like the start of a bad joke: what do IHOP, Weight Watchers and Dunkin’ Donuts have in common? But there’s no punchline, just facts. All three brands have recently gone through a name change. Some of those name … Continue reading

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