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7 Lessons Every Marketer Can Learn From The CrossFit Instagram Crisis

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The gym owner insisted these acts were “light hearted and fun” and defended his posts on radio as “we were having fun.we USA Today and TV stations ravaged the CrossFit brand (a typical headline in a UK newspaper: “Booty Shame: CrossFit trainer blasted for sharing snaps of female clients bent over in the gym”). Facebook page ) and.

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Influencer Engagement: Finding a Fit

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In 2017, my organization, Goodwill Industries International, then a 115-year-old social enterprise; one of the oldest 501 (c)(3) nonprofit brands; the leading workforce provider in North America; and the #1 brand doing the most good by enso and featured in Fast Company Magazine – faced a pretty significant challenge.

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6 Pro Tips to Create Bigger Buzz for Your Business

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The Betamax was a better quality product than VHS, the Zune had better features than the iPod, Ani DiFranco is a qualitatively better songwriter than nearly everyone on the radio today. For the uninitiated, Pump It Up is a franchise of locally-owned inflatable gyms, each with unique ancillary features. Something else was going on.

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11 LESSONS MARKETERS CAN LEARN FROM FIJI WATER’S GOLDEN GLOBES PHOTOBOMBING

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From a branding and marketing perspective, the Fiji Water Girl Photobombing Stunt was a combination of product placement and social media brilliance,” concludes Stacey Hintermeister, Group Director at the Minneapolis agency CBX. As an agency that’s performed our share of branded publicity stunts (from carving then-Gov.

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11 LESSONS MARKETERS CAN LEARN FROM FIJI WATER’S GOLDEN GLOBES PHOTO BOMBING

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From a branding and marketing perspective, the Fiji Water Girl Photo Bombing Stunt was a combination of product placement and social media brilliance,” concludes Stacey Hintermeister, Group Director at the Minneapolis agency CBX. As an agency that’s performed our share of branded publicity stunts (from carving then-Gov.

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4 MARKETING SECRETS FOR VIRAL GUINNESS WORLD RECORD EVENTS

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Chief marketing officers are in love with the idea of breaking a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® event record and having their brands bask in the seemingly viral eruption of TV, radio, print and online buzz that comes from that honor. Local TV segments on Kemps'' mammoth scoop aired in 181 out of 210 U.S.

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How to Spy on Your Competition & Steal Their Secrets

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This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. The global digital economy has produced an avalanche of content and the battle for mind and market share is no longer local. Implement viral marketing tactics. It’s a big web world and growing at an exponential pace.

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