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U.S. b2b marketers take a nap while their brands take a dive overseas

Four years ago the fine folks at Mobium put together an online survey to compare the perceptions of American business marketers with those of their overseas business buyers concerning the image of U.S. business brands around the globe.

Can’t we all…

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Getting your tweet wet

It was my second job in marketing. My office was high on top of the tower of a manufacturing building on the Southside of Chicago. It had a wonderful view but no one ever wanted to come up to see…

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Some thoughts on getting through to business people

You’ve got your micro sites, your mega sites, your mini micro sites, your marketplace sites, purchasing sites, mall sites, your e-this, that and the other, as well as wireless phone displays. Even the screen in the office elevator. And watch…

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Recession fighting

The May issue of Chief Executive magazine has the results of the CEO Confidence Index.  While there appears to be “more pessimism than optimism” among the responding CEOs, there does seem to be some sense that they are fighting their…

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Another thought on getting through to business people

In this new, media-bloated, message-fragmented world how do you know when to send what message in what medium to really get through to your customers and prospects? Because when it comes to getting brand buying information they have a lot…

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The real problem of getting through to business people

I was attempting to relax the other night by watching some TV on my 324-channel cable hookup when it occurred to me that by the time I navigated my way through the endless list of programs most of them were…

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Bakes up to six pies at once!

During a recent visit to an antique store, I stumbled across boxes of old ads preserved from Life Magazine and was immediately captivated.  Call me nostalgic, but to me these ads represent the road before, a lesson in history if…

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