The October 16th Globe & Mail Report on Business (online edition) carried an article titled “Beer giants’ merger comes as the industry tries to get its buzz back”. In it, and in the print version of the same story in the weekend edition following, Globe [...]
In late June of this year, ‘global growth’ consultant Frost & Sullivan published a report on the state of automotive retailing—automotive being a key practice area for the firm. Here are some highlights from the USD 5k study, [1] most of which I needed to translate [...]
There's something clearly wrong with the generally accepted theory that political marketing is different from any other kind of marketing. It isn't. Politicians and political parties are brands, though the party brand is closely related to its leader's brand. Yet for some reason, political parties [...]
You know when a new (-ish) marketing topic gets serious coverage in the general business media, the topic is a fundamental one. The June 27th Globe & Mail Report on Business cover story was titled “How automation is shaking up the advertising industry” [1] and described [...]
The practice of companies building and using their own internal creative and media resources has been around for a long time. It has often been the starting point for small entrepreneurial companies and larger companies that focus a major portion of the marketing budget in [...]
Along with many others, I believe that demographics are the foundation of consumer marketing. Demographics help you define and understand your brand’s target group, which allows you to develop creative and media strategies and plans that maximise business results. When don’t demographics matter? When you [...]
