Purpose-Driven Marketing: When it Works and When it Backfires
I am pleased to share a recent Harvard Business Review article “Are Your Company’s Purpose Initiatives Working?” which I co-authored with my colleagues Chris Blocker…
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Advertising | Chapter 01 | Chapter 02 | Chapter 05 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 19 | Ethics | Social responsibility
12 CEO-Approved Strategies for Ethical Advertising Success
We have found that the amount of attention marketing instructors want to give to ethical issues varies widely. Everyone recognizes its importance, but instructor how…
Advertising | Artificial Intelligence | Chapter 13 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Diversity equity and inclusion | Ethics | Promotion | Publicity | Video
Ads That Struck a Chord: Marketing Triumphs and Missteps of 2024
The year 2024 demonstrated that advertising operates in an increasingly interactive and contentious space. For examples, see “10 Ads That Struck a Cultural Nerve in…
Dynamic Pricing is Shaking Up Industries and Annoying Customers
This short article on dynamic pricing provides some good examples you can use in class (see also this blog post, this article and this article)….
Chapter 05 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 16 | Consumer behavior | Ethics | Promotion | Social media | Viral campaign
A few perspectives on influencers
These days some marketing campaigns include (or sometimes completely rely upon) influencers in the promotion blend. Influencers are one of the fastest growing forms of…
Advertising | Chapter 07 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 19 | Ethics | Promotion
Personalized Marketing: Cool or Creepy?
For many years we have wondered whether personalized advertising (retargeting) was cool or creepy (perhaps a bit of both?). Essentials of Marketing (Chapter 19) includes…
#M4BW | Advertising | Chapter 03 | Chapter 04 | Chapter 05 | Chapter 09 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Ethics | External market environment | New-product development | Promotion | Social media | Social responsibility
Non-Alcoholic Beverages Are Hot!
In my class and my textbook, I largely refrain from using examples from the marketing of alcoholic beverages. I do not want to appear to…
#M4BW | Chapter 01 | Chapter 03 | Chapter 05 | Consumer behavior | Ethics
Deinfluencers – New on Me
Before seeing this CNN article, “Forget the influencers. Here come the ‘deinfluencers’” (June 11, 2023), I was unfamiliar with “deinfluencers.” Apparently this is a growing…
Chapter 05 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 18 | Consumer behavior | Ethics | Price
Impact of the Netflix Crackdown on Password Sharing
As you, and probably most of your students know, a few months ago, Netflix announced it would crackdown on the common practice of password-sharing. The…