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- A compelling marketing article appeared in Brandweek titled The Story of " that was published on September 7th. It's terrific because it also enables me to follow up on my recent post dubbed "Sharing the The article centers on California supermarket chain Safeway's O Organics private label food line, which ... more
- A live interview with the CEO, Peter Friedman, from at Web 2.0 about the launch of their new product called If you ever dreamed of adding community to your website without having the hassle of a major integration effort involving your IT department then LiveWorld's newest product called LiveBar is ... more
- With the U.S. economy experiencing major challenges amidst bank failures and Wall Street woes, what's next for marketing? Do we go back to business as usual once we have a bipartisan agreement in place? Or are things going to change for The system is so complicated and perhaps so broken, ... more
- Taking a look at "social media" it is difficult to comprehend the dizzying number of sites, tools and applications that are proliferating before our eyes. I recently sampled 3,000 social media sites, tools and applications. Overwhelmed by the list, I then set out to classify these sites and tools to ... more
- An interesting appeared in Supermarket News recently. "Can Safeway Become a Lab for Other Retailers?" discusses the food retailer's decision to expand distribution of its O Organics private label line and Safeway Select, Eating Right health and wellness line to other food Apparently Safeway's subsidiary, Lucerne Foods, will make these ... more
- As the forces of globalization continue to connect and intertwine commercial and financial markets, and new technologies come online in the marketplace, the time between "event" and "action" is rapidly In the past, managers could take weeks or days to make important decisions, however to effectively compete globally, some companies ... more
- As in The Committee of , a group of highly successful and highly influential female professionals. Last week, I was a guest speaker at The Committee of 200's (C200) annual conference outside of Dallas. Have you ever heard of the C200? Probably not - membership is by invitation only for ... more
- Greetings from Yerevan, Armenia, where I am "posted" with a Fulbright grant. My original assignment was to teach graduate school-level marketing. However, after a bit of confusion, the assignment was changed and I am now teaching public Public relations in a post-Soviet world is an interesting proposition. Before starting, I ... more
- With global sourcing strategies in place, companies often assemble finished goods from raw materials from hundreds of suppliers. However, not all suppliers act ethically, and some take short-cuts in quality control. In order to properly manage our brands and take ownership of the "customer experience"–marketers need visibility into the supply ... more
- Nothing happens unless leadership leads, which is very different from a leadership team that manages. Managing is yesterday's news. Great companies and those that want to be great will hire executives, directors, and middle managers who know the difference between leading and managing, and who themselves are Leaders show, they ... more
- Have you ever heard of an advertising agency whose principals don't think their future is in advertising? Then, you haven't heard of Gary Koepke and Lance Jensen, Boston-based 's In a recent USA article, "Ad agency Modernista relies on out-of-the-box thinking", some rather interesting revelations were divulged. Profound, in fact. ... more
- It's hurricane season here in Houston, and the weather weenie in me recently made a fascinating Web discovery. Then the marketing wonk in me started wondering... what could this cool find teach me (and maybe you) about creating a blog that "the locals" buzz about loud enough to draw readers ... more