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Popularity is For Sale
The measure of your impact in social media is often the number of followers or views that you have. The theory being that better, more…
Author: Jon Firooz
Are Super Bowl Ads Worth It?
I really enjoy these Marketoonist cartoons because they can succinctly capture great marketing concepts and students never object to discussing a cartoon. Another Super Bowl…
Technology Enabling the Future of Marketing
Marketing has always relied on creativity. Creativity in promotion design, product definition, copy, and more. Today, more and more we’re seeing opportunity for technology advancements…
Facebook Changes News Feed Policies
Social media marketing added a new and significant channel for businesses to reach customers. However, when that channel is controlled by another entity it can…
Amazon’s Grocery Vision
This week Amazon opened their prototype grocery store to the public. What’s so different about it? It’s entirely self-serve with no checkout process. Hundreds of…
Pricing as Impacted by Supply and Demand
USA Today article, “Gas prices head up when they usually head down in winter“, talks about a nationwide increase in gas prices during a period…
Truth in Advertising
We have all seen our fair share of unethical or misleading marketing campaigns in the world. In the quest to win customers, companies will often…
Ethical lines
This Bloomberg article, “Two Major Apple Shareholders Push for Study of iPhone Addiction in Children“, describes an effort from two Apple shareholders to get the…
The Collapse of Retail
Every few months there is an article about the end of the brick-and-mortar retail era. Chain after chain disappear, often citing Amazon as the primary…