This post contributed by my American Marketing Group partner, Paul Friederichsen. Sometimes you just need experience, perspective, and creativity on your side at the strategic level. Having the right partner can either validate and enhance the direction you’re headed or help you with a much-needed course correction. Would you ask, “why work with an accountant?” […]
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RSS feed for this sectionIs Subscription Marketing in Your Plans? Industry Veteran, Georg Richter, Shows the Way
Subscription-based marketing seems like the latest and greatest new business-building idea. With exciting startups showing the way, including companies like Ipsy and Birchbox in beauty, Blue Apron and HelloFresh in meals, Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s for men’s shaving products and Stitch Fix and Trunk Club in fashion, subscription-based marketing appears to be the ticket to […]
Got a New Product or Business? Here’s Help
Congratulations! You’ve designed a new product that you are sure will be a big hit. Or you have an idea for a new business that is going to answer a previously unfilled need. You love your idea. Obviously, since you’ve invested time, effort and often a great deal of money, trying to bring it to […]
Why Instant Gratification Isn’t the Answer for Luxury Brands
A recent Luxury Daily article entitled “Is fashion’s love affair with see-now, buy-now over?,” questioned whether this emerging trend in the luxury market may well have hit a wall. Tom Ford has announced that after one year of testing the concept, it was abandoning the effort. Thakoon has done the same. ‘See-now, buy-now’ is intended […]
Marketing Is Outdated — It Needs a New Strategy
A friend shared an interesting article with me this week with a provocative title, “Marketing is an outdated practice, period.” It was said at Adobe’s Think Tank: The Future of Experience Business. The statement arose around a question about marketing’s role in the experiential economy now that simply selling a product isn’t enough anymore. […]