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Marketing Ventriloquism: Why You Need To Talk To Your Audience In A Voice Other Than Your Own

Onclusive

As a lifelong marketer currently leading a communications technology company, that phrase and concept really stuck with me. So many of us in marketing and advertising specialize in talking at our prospects, customers and consumers. We target our consumers with historically unimaginable precision. How could that be?

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Questions are the Key to AI and Ethics

Mindful Marketing

by David Hagenbuch - professor of marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing New technology has enabled people to do previously unimaginable things: mass-produce books, illuminate homes, communicate across continents, fly through the air. ” Turns out, it does.

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3 Simple Tips for Getting Better Coverage of Your Surveys

Sword and the Script

I noticed a survey put out by a large technology company the other day. Because that’s not a story, it’s an advertisement. The other priest poses his question to the Pope in a slightly different construct and asks, “When I am smoking, is it okay for me to pray?”. The proliferation of junk survey research.

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The CMO Survey Shows Us How Classic 4Ps of Marketing Are Changing

Sword and the Script

The job description discussed in the courtship didn’t match the reality: “To his surprise, his role was limited mostly to marketing communications, including advertising and social media. The 4Ps is the classic construct that articulates the four traditional levers available to drive growth. The technology? The analytics?

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Keep Calm and Then What? How to plan your communications around the return to ?normal?

PR in High Definition

However, with the news that some of the technology giants will be working from home until Christmas, it’s fair to say that it’ll be at least Q4 before we see a return to anything resembling what we’d usually call normal. Planning from the End.

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When Corporate CEOs Challenge The President

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

When a technology leader speaks about the need for skilled engineers, or a midwest farm company explains how a labor shortage is impacting its growth, it places emotional issues into a constructive framework for discussion. Just as consumers have learned to exercise their buying clout, so have large advertisers.

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Your PR Campaign is Too Short

Doctor Spin

To mitigate this weakness, the mass media had to rely on various forms of advertising to enable their editorial efforts. So, the audience pays for content with their attention, advertisers pay for attention with their money, and the editorial outlet pays their staff with ad revenue. It was a great time to advertise.