Topic: Brand
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Even as many businesses are beginning to open, colleges and universities are stuck in a prolonged state of uncertainty as they try to forecast many months down the road. They are balancing health, education and financial stability. We talked about the challenges with Michelle Adams O’Regan, Curry College’s Associate Vice President of Marketing and Communications, who believes…
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Our series of conversations with marketing communications leaders continues this week with a look at the impact of COVID-19 on the financial category. Michelle Crecca, Chief Marketing Officer for Marketing Strategy and Workplace Solutions at Prudential Financial, gives us a peek behind the curtain on the pivots the company needed to make for customers and employees in very short…
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Shooting on the greatest cinematic camera or on a pocket device isn’t that important to the consumer. Telling a good story is.
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Our series of conversations with communications leaders continues this week with a look at the impact of COVID-19 on frontline businesses that have remained open. Whitney Clarke is a Boston-based Chief Marketer, who has previously led efforts at CVS Health and Stop & Shop, among others. She gives us a little insight into the possible…
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Our series of conversations with communications leaders continues this week with a look at the impact of COVID-19 on small business. Ali Palmer is VP Business Development & Marketing at Gingerbread Construction Company, a family-owned and operated business just North of Boston and she gives us a little insight into the last several weeks –…
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True connection, as we humans know it, is actual dialogue. It’s shared experience. It’s real time. At the end of the day, if this quarantine has taught us anything, it’s that engagement isn’t an outcome or a metric, it’s a human drive.
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The world has changed dramatically since Chris Sale threw his last fastball. For marketers, that new world already is under way, if the shifts from Black Swan events like coronavirus can’t be fully absorbed for years. What might this new normal look like, whether that’s fall or winter or sometime in 2021 and beyond?
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People eating queso dip off each other’s fingers at a party may have drawn a smile when Mint Mobile first launched its fingerdipping campaign two years ago. Today, framed against obsessive hand washing and social distancing, the spot was mocked into retirement. With quarantines and forced closures, businesses find themselves scrambling to survive. Operations, sales, finance,…
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Over the last few years, there has been a considerable shift in what consumers expect from the brands they interact with. We hold brands to a higher standard where quality, convenience and competitive pricing are table stakes. Sure, value is important. But what’s more important? Values. We’re no longer influenced by a company simply having great…
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As the events of the last few weeks have unfolded, I’ve found some comfort in focusing on what feels most natural to me: staying calm and trying to help our clients solve problems with creative thinking. I believe crisis can lead to opportunity. Reveal strengths. And bring people together. I still remember the sense…