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John Maxwell

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Social Conversion: The “Warm and Fuzzy” of Ad-Tech

We all know marketing clients demand performance metrics: CTRs, time on site, impressions, etc. But have you ever watched your client’s face light up when you show him or her some warm and fuzzy social media engagement? Performance stats might push...

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Music, Music (and Apple) Everywhere

We have written in this column about marketing to Millennials, the role of artist content in savvy brands’ marketing efforts, the new world order of...

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Authenticity is Key in Brand-Artist Partnerships

The foundation of any successful brand-artist partnership is authenticity. Without it, messages come across as phony and fall flat, and the critical...

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Mountain Dew and SoundCloud’s “Green Label Sound: Open Call”

A recent article in Forbes got me thinking about Mountain Dew’s unique place in marketing history and how it arrived at its latest effort: “Green...

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From Selling Out to Breaking Out: The Evolution of Artist/Brand Partnerships

From Advertising Age’s excellent series of articles to Gawker’s view that “ . . . the current young generation is being sold wholesale the idea that...

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Target and the Five Elements of Millennial Marketing

If you caught the Grammys last night, you couldn’t have missed Target’s Imagine Dragons concert spot. The big-box retailer ponied up what is...

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