Top 7 Big Marketing Essentials for 2013

Top 7 marketing tips 2013

This is a guest post from Feather Hickox. The average consumer receives over 16,000 marketing messages each day. Marketers face a daunting challenge to break through that volume of noise. This challenge has given rise to Big Marketing – the use of Big Data analytics to develop personalized marketing messages and offers on a massive [...]


Marketing Is So Much More Than Just a Sales Tool

Crossroads of influence marketing

Over at Mashable, Todd Wasserman wrote a piece about most social media marketing being a waste of time. Todd’s premise is simple: …a lot of the buzzword-laden blather around social media marketing the past few years was itself a form of marketing for self-conferred experts looking to make a buck off scared blue-chip companies. That’s [...]


There’s Nothing Savvy About Marketing or Newsjacking Disasters

Hijacking bad things

This week, the eastern coast of the U.S. has been battered by Hurricane Sandy, one of the biggest storms to make land in the U.S. The states of Connecticut, Delaware, District of Colombia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and West Virginia have all bore the brunt of this “superstorm”. [...]