by Minter Dial | Oct 20, 2015 | Marketing
In another in the series of “Gotcha Marketing,” this is a howler. By way of a definition, Gotcha Marketing is where marketers are too focused on the numbers and not enough on the customer experience. I don’t know about you, but there is little quite...
by Minter Dial | Jun 11, 2014 | Marketing
For many brands and marketing teams in businesses around the world, there is terrific pressure to improve performance. Many a marketing strategy blueprint will include projects with bold Calls to Action, such as: Optimize CRM program Increase conversion rates Drive...
by Minter Dial | Feb 26, 2014 | Marketing
This year is supposedly all about Big Data. However, many — if not most — brands are far from actually capitalizing on the opportunities in Big Data. I wanted to highlight an erroneous campaign by a rather large brand, that ordinarily one would think...
by Minter Dial | Nov 25, 2013 | Leadership
It’s a tough world out there capturing new clients. Managers around the world will talk about business in warlike terms: killing the competition, grabbing market share, digging up reserves… It is no surprise that, after years of...
by Minter Dial | Aug 27, 2013 | Marketing
As email marketing remains one of the cheapest and most effective digital marketing tools around, you would think that a marketing team might be more inclined to invest in and hire an email marketing specialist than a social media specialist. It remains my...