A young mother exercises on a stationary bicycle in the comfort of her home and the internet erupts. Why? Perhaps this is a question that the fitness equipment company, Peloton, is wrestling with at this exact moment.
Peloton’s stock dropped...
Until 1983, when a software developer Alan Cooper pioneered the concept of customer persona, the word “persona” had been used in entertainment magazines to compare a celebrity whose public persona was bright and bubbly to one of being quiet...
When the Eagles recorded the song, “Life in the Fast Lane,” back in 1976, boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) had lived through a lot. They were witnesses to race riots, the Vietnam war protests, the man on the...
The job market is competitive, and one big difference between the modern workplace and that of decades past is that the competition now comes on both sides of the hiring table. Not only are the top qualified candidates vying...
The term “brand purpose” was designated by the Association of National Advertisers as the Marketing Word of the Year in 2018. With so much focus on the idea of purpose and engaging in core principles that help make the...
Until recently, the idea of a tastemaker or an influencer was centered around the idea of what could be. Often, content posted by influencers was so out of reach for the average consumer that it mostly served to make...
That’s not something to look forward to while crawling along in rush hour traffic when heading home or to the office. But for companies doing business online, a traffic jam is a completely different, and much more desirable, thing.
There...
Marketers who rely on using emails to connect with customers will be pleased to know that a recent study reported that email usage in the U.S. is expected to continue growing. One of the main reasons cited are commercial...
It seems that any time a user logs into Instagram, there are countless posts promoting certain brands. Gym wear, supplements, hair products, skincare, sports treatments, CBD — the list goes on and on. Influencer marketing is a very real...
Influencer marketing seems to be all the rage among brands today, and for good reason. Influencers are aptly named because they have exactly that: influence over consumer decisions. In an environment in which consumers have low levels of trust,...
