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Much has changed in the past two years, including consumer shopping behavior. More is bought online. In-home delivery from restaurants and grocery stores has increased, while spending on work apparel and international travel has decreased. In Adweek, Eric Dahan, CEO of the influencer marketing agency, Open Influence, predicts that no one will see consumer behavior “snapping…

These representatives of your brand are exactly what they sound like: people loyal to your brand, who are willing to promote your brand on a more personal level. If that sounds daunting, it doesn’t have to be! 1. Provide Excellence in Your Service or Product It’s first on the list because it really is the…

The buzzy tech concept of the moment is the NFT, the 21st-century version of the “collector’s item” that has been a marketing favorite for ages. Should your brand be investing in developing NFT-centric strategies? Here’s what every marketer should know about this emerging technology. First, let’s start with the obvious question: what exactly are NFTs? An…

Instagram marketing has been around since 2010, but the platform keeps making changes that, in turn, require tweaks in marketing strategies. Reels, which arrived in 2020, are short videos of up to 15 seconds each, which can be created and edited within the Instagram app. Users can either record clips as they make their reel or…

It’s time to welcome Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2022: Very Peri! The purple-hued periwinkle blue “displaying a carefree confidence and a daring curiosity that animates our creative spirit” and “helps us to embrace this altered landscape of possibilities, opening us up to a new vision as we rewrite our lives,” according to Pantone’s…

Business people collect a lot of business cards; in fact, there are so many that sometimes these items get lost in the shuffle. But there is a way to print business cards to let your message not only dazzle the recipient but help you get truly noticed. Let’s take a look at spot UV coating!…

Try imagining a blue can of Coca-Cola, or a red Whole Foods logo, or a brown Apple on the center of your laptop. It’s jarring, right?   That’s because each of these companies has mastered the art of color psychology (or chromology, if you want to impress your friends). In their own way, Coca-Cola, Whole…

In the 1960s, the marketer Ed Mayer set out a formula: “Success in direct marketing is 40% lists, 40% offers and 20% everything else.”   Mayer’s formula is still valid today, maybe more than ever. Data is the king of mail. Spray-and-pray mass mailings are giving way to more targeted practices. Segmentation strategies enable brands…

What is it?   Years ago, “going online” meant scrolling endlessly through giant blocks of text, squinting blurry-eyed at blue underlined hyperlinks, and pulling at loose informational threads to find that one bit of information you needed. If the internet were a planet, those initial web spaces would be its single-cell organisms.   Today, the…