Marketing Observations

How to Market Heavy Equipment: 2 More Tips for 2021

Continuing our theme of marketing heaving machinery or equipment, lets take a look at how to use social media to boost brand awareness. Heavy vehicles, equipment or machinery is a bit different to selling sunglasses or sports shoes. So for a business in Australia, selling new and used cranes, pick

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How to Market Heavy Equipment: 5 Tips for 2021

Heavy equipment and machinery marketers have a unique challenge when it comes to marketing. Unlike other businesses, they often need their message to resonate with not just one person but an entire team of decision makers! This can be complicated for B2B companies that want people on board quickly so

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How To Use Influencer Marketing For Great Traffic Results

Does influencer marketing work? How can you use it to drive great traffic and profitable leads to your business? In 2020, award-winning Hamilton and Whitianga builders Urban Homes built a home All Black Sam Cane. For most kiwis, Sam Cane needs no introduction. But in case you’ve been living under

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What’s Still Right About The 22 Laws Of Branding?

Has marketing become too complicated, confusing, complex? What about Branding? Is that marketing? Whats the difference? Lets take a look and see. The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding was written by Al Ries and Laura Ries in 1998. Surely it can’t be relevant now in the days of the internet.

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The Top Three “Sparkle Like Markle” Advertising Winners

“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.” said Rosabeth Moss Kanter. The royal wedding that has caused quite a stir around the world has been plastered all over newspapers, magazines and television, weeks-on-end. As the royal wedding got closer, many brands have gone all

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The Coke Can Coca-Cola Co. Just Wishes You’d Forget Already

Are you in food marketing? There’s a pretty vital morsel of information that is useful for any field of marketing, but somehow, few outside of multisensory integration know about it. And here it is: The packaging of food affects it’s taste. What do you think taste is? One of the senses right? Controlled

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The Quest For Game Advertising

As of recently, advertising for online gaming has increased tremendously. Games have been used almost since their inception to advertise products as seen in this photo from eMarketing: But when it comes to advertising the games themselves, advertising has been a bit more shabby. Dedicated gamers have to learn new languages,

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Why I’m Not Sold on Apple’s Mission Statement

As any new manager does when they enter a job way over their heads, Tim Cooks cautiously made little tweaks to the company. The whole world was watching him and any monumental change could cause a seismic shift in peoples trust in Apple’s brand. So Cooks thought changing the mission

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