MEETING OF THE MINDS

Meetings don’t have to be mundane; they don’t have to stifle the synergy or destroy the dynamics! They don’t have to be the place where good ideas go to die. Meetings can be productive, compelling, interesting, and creative! Too many meetings don’t get off the ground,...

MARKETING FRIDAY THE 13th

Forty-four years ago, this ad appeared in Variety, the entertainment industry trade bible. Not a single frame of the film had been shot, no crew had been hired, no financing found. Apparently, the sole reason for the ad was to determine if anyone else had claimed the...

SPLIT DECISION

Advertising is part art, part science, ironically its very own A/B split. At its core, A/B testing is a simple way to compare two different versions of something. It’s been around for more than a century, but it didn’t originate with advertising or marketing. Many...

ADS AND ELECTIONS

The experts estimate more than $11 billion will be spent on political ads in 2024. That works out to an estimated 8 to 9.5 million ads in about 2,000 elections. On any given day, the average consumer will be exposed to as many as 10,000 ads. That may seem like a lot,...