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By Yvonne Meacham Buchanan Press releases are so easy to write that everyone’s writing them. That’s just the problem. Reporters are inundated with press releases. Some good. Some bad. Some they post by the copy machine so everyone in the newsroom can have a good laugh. With the current trend toward electronic submission of press [...]

Image via Wikipedia By Yvonne Meacham Buchanan Wouldn’t it be deadly dull if everything was the same? One type of breath mints: Tic Tacs cinnamon. One flavor of ice cream: pistachio. Variety is the spice of our lives. It’s what makes the eyes twinkle, the taste buds tingle, and the ad guys rich. If every [...]

By Merle Copyright © 2009 Back in the days when newsletters first hit the Internet, they were usually published in text format because many email clients did not support HTML email just yet. One of the problems many publishers faced was long URL’s being split in half and not being clickable to the reader. To [...]

Brand management is the application of marketing techniques to a specific product, product line, or brand. It seeks to increase the product’s perceived value to the customer and thereby increase brand franchise and brand equity. Marketers see a brand as an implied promise that the level of quality people have come to expect from a [...]

Marketing is an integrated communications-based process through which individuals and communities discover that the products and services of others may satisfy existing and newly identified needs and wants. Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for [...]

When creating a formal, written marketing plan, your marketing strategy will become the meat & potatoes from which you will generate new business without wasting precious capital.  Marketing strategy is the process that allows your organization to use its limited resources on the greatest opportunities to increase sales and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. While [...]