Search Results for: Marketers on Fire

  • Best Buy Taps MLS Blanco for Brand Ambassador Post

    Best Buy has signed a deal with Major League Soccer player Cuauhtémoc Blanco, making him the first brand ambassador for the consumer electronics retailer.

  • What About the Change?

    Maine is the latest state to come to the rescue of consumers tired of feeling pressured to spend more than a gift card’s value to use up the often small

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  • Breakfast Stumping

    Denny’s is playing off the current political season with a marketing campaign that urges people to vote, not for the remaining presidential candidates,

  • Coke Recruits Pro-Green Olympic Torchbearers

    Coca-Cola is combining its global presentation of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay with its environmental advocacy by lining up local pro-green celebrities to carry the flame to the summer games.

  • Recession Survival Guide

    Depending on whom you ask, the United States economy has already entered a recession or sits on the precipice of one, with even the most bullish not willing to say no such recession will occur. Our stock…

  • Miller Ties Rewards to Ad Campaign

    Miller High Life has created a loyalty program offering fans a chance to own a Miller shirt like the one worn by its discerning deliveryman in the popular ad campaign.

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  • Power to The People – Part 1

    As we wrote last month during our analysis of the Writer’s Guild of America strike, the 101 day work stoppage led to “$1.3 billion in lost revenue by Hollywood-dependent businesses and $750 million in lost…

  • Frustration With Online Sales Reps

    Now that I am back from Affiliate Summit and am somewhat getting caught up on work, it’s all about follow-ups. When I was in sales, one of my first priorities would be to follow-up with as many new viable business opportunities as I could.

  • Casting Call

    When it comes to making pancakes, Latino moms begin from scratch: milk, eggs and flour. So when Quaker Oats targeted Hispanics for its Aunt Jemima Pancake

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  • Misusing Targeted Media

    Anxious marketing managers sense the danger. They know in their bones that the traditional ground of mass advertising has become a less friendly place