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5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Play the CMO Blame Game | Fast Company

5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Play the CMO Blame Game | Fast Company | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
You've done everything right. You had an idea that you know solves a problem.

 

...You have high hopes for your new product. But you can't just put it out there and hope it will be discovered. So you hire someone to make you a marketing plan and implement it. This magical marketing person is supposed to help your company grow. Mr. Marketing Magic should help your team close more sales.

 

But it doesn't happen. You look at the numbers and your revenue is flat. So what do you do? You fire the marketing person and bring in another marketing person with a new and perhaps better plan....

 

[Not so fast says Francine Hardaway in Fast Company. Try these five questions first. ~ Jeff]

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Shopping Gets Personal | Smithsonian.org

Shopping Gets Personal | Smithsonian.org | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Retailers are mining personal data to learn everything about you so they can help you help yourself to their products.

 

Black Thriday is over. So is Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. Today, in case you didn’t know, is either Green Tuesday or Giving Tuesday, depending on whether you feel like eco-shopping or giving to charity.

 

Not sure what tomorrow may bring (How about Weird Relative Gift Wednesday?), but I suppose shopping does feel less chaotic if someone’s organizing it into theme days, although that doesn’t always stop it from devolving into a contact sport.

 

Can you imagine American shoppers embracing something like iButterfly, a mobile app popular in Asia where customers earn coupons by tracking down virtual butterflies with their smartphones?

 

Me neither.

 

In the U.S., it’s about cutting to the chase and here the chase is after the sweetest deals, pure and simple, without having to bother with running after faux flying insects. And retailers have ratcheted up the competition, using the latest tracking technology to closely monitor their competitors’ pricing decisions and undercut them, in close to real-time, on their own websites. When Best Buy, for instance, published advertising saying it would be selling a $1,500 Nikon camera for $1,000, Amazon responded on Thanksgiving morning by cutting its price for the same camera to $997....

 

[Smithsonian offers a valuable marketing context for Black Friday shopping phenomena ~ Jeff]

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