Tag: marketing
What A Poet Can Teach You About Advertising
“Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.” If I asked you to guess when this quote was published – would you guess a year in this century? Probably you wouldn’t because you’re picking up on the context clues and know that this is a ridiculously overt trick question – but let’s just say that […]
Using Netflix To Make Sense Of Machine Learning
Machine learning is one of the most common buzzwords thrown around the world of digital marketing today. For all of the powerful and amazing capabilities this data science function possess, it grinds my gears just having to use it in this post. I want to attempt to demystify this played out phrase, by showing that anyone […]
Mind The Monkeysphere
The definition of the Monkeysphere (also known as Dunbar’s number) is “the suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.” In other words, there is a number of other people that you can know and relate to at any given time – either in real life and social media, […]
Testing Digital Marketing Ideas in China’s Marketplace
In continuing efforts to expand PMG efforts globally, we come across China’s digital marketplace many times over. Often I find there are more questions than answers when it comes to how to approach the market and the consumer. Fear not, it can be done.
During a recent all-company meeting at PMG, I decided to give a pop quiz, featuring 11 stats and data points from various data and research sources. The feedback on the pop quiz was fantastic, so I decided to turn my pop quiz into a blog post. So without further ado, here are several recent stats from the world of digital marketing.
The Evolution of Media Consumption
Lately, I have been seriously considering dropping cable in favor of Netflix and the streaming features on my smart TV. And, apparently, I’m just another in a growing number of consumers who are having the same thought. TV may still be the primary way we are consuming media, but the landscape is evolving as consumption for […]
Top 6 Social Media Strategies Summit Takeaways
We’ve all heard the usual digital conference declarations: “Content is king”; “It’s the year of mobile”; “Mobile is social.” For all you jargon lovers, you’re in luck. There were a few nods to your favorite clichés at the Social Media Strategies Summit in Chicago. Jargon offenses aside, I was happy to walk away with some […]
Marketing to Millennials: Find the White Space
When I saw the marketing to millennials session on the Social Media Strategies Summit schedule, I promptly guessed that Buzzfeed would be leading a session on cat photos. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Clorox (yes, the bleach and house product brand) was the company at the forefront of marketing to the most talked […]
From Local to Global: 3 Key Considerations for International Expansion
I’ve just recently moved back from London where I spent two years running some of the biggest global marketing efforts for some of the biggest brands in the world. I quickly realized the US is just one market, and marketing strategies needed to be much more nimble and flexible to work across the hundreds of markets we were operating in for these brands. And that was just within the first two months of living aboard. As we continued to expand nuances emerged with each major market, which forced our teams to be even more flexible.
