Tag Archives: brand

Super Bowl of (Social) Marketing

By Mike Mulvihill
As a marketer and consumer, I eagerly await the bevy advertising’s best spots that launch during the Super Bowl each year. While I don’t always have much interest in the game (alas, I am a Jets fan so it has been a while since I’ve had a dog in this fight), the hype [...]

Steve Jobs-Inventor, Designer, Marketing Genius…a Buzz Bin Tribute

By Jason Stemm (@NYCubsFan)

A company lost a leader, an industry lost a visionary and a family lost a loved one yesterday when Steve Jobs passed away. He created and rebuilt a company into something than he may never have imagined as a young man in his parent’s garage. It reminded me of a friend I [...]

When Brand Is Not King

By Mike Mulvihill
The King is dead. (Not Elvis. Well, yes Elvis is dead…never mind.) As of this past weekend, the bizarre royal icon conjured from some creeper van nightmare no longer fronts for the Burger King brand. He’s been dropped for a new ad campaign that focuses on BK’s food. (However, he is still [...]

Building Brands Online: Going Digital for Millennials

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By Pia Mara Finkell (@piamara)
From fashion to packaged foods to technology, big business has long analyzed consumer tendencies as a basis for sophisticated brand building, according to specific demographic categories, including age and generational ranges. For some reason, however, this seems a little foreign to the wine industry, which has tended to [...]

The Key to Building Brand Loyalty among Millennials

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By Pia Mara Finkell (@piamara)
Writing from sunny St. Helena in Napa Valley today, I am particularly psyched out of my mind to attend the Nomacorc Symposium for wine marketing managers on “Marketing to the Next Generation of Wine Drinkers” today at the Culinary Institute of America. The lineup of speakers is killer, from [...]

Has Facebook made your Website Obsolete?

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By Pia Mara Finkell (@piamara)
If you follow the idiom “fish where the fish are,” it might be tempting to focus all your marketing eggs in the Facebook basket with over 600 million users and growing. But the question that naturally follows is: with pools of fish (read: customers) swimming in the Facebook virtual [...]

NYC Supper Clubs: The Epitome of Unique User Experience

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By Cassandra Bianco (@cnbianco)
In the last year, pop up supper clubs have sprung onto the New York scene. From The Noble Rot’s traveling wine saloon, to Les Salonnieres’ “underground club of artists,” I’ve found these events not only great fun, but the intriguing concept is quite indicative of New York’s current restaurant landscape, and [...]

Social Media’s Super Bowl Cameo

By Mike Mulvihill

Our client, Network Solutions, opted to harness the power of social media instead of shelling out $3 million for a 30 second Super Bowl commercial.  And for a fraction of the cost, they generated over 17 million Twitter impressions and 35,000 views of a parody video – and still counting.
The video is a [...]

Three Common Social Media Snafus and Solutions for Small Businesses

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By Pia Mara Finkell (@piamara)
 I always wondered how brand new business owners create their websites’ ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ (FAQ) sections the moment they hang out a shingle. If they’ve only been open for a short time, how frequent could these questions be? How do they know what the real sticking points will be? [...]