AABP EP Awards 728x90

Sales and Marketing

13403

MCLELLAN: Does gender messaging still matter in marketing?


For decades, one of the core ways we refined a specific advertising audience was through segmentation, including gender. We would then craft our marketing messages based on that segmentation and our assumptions about that audience.…

13404

GITOMER: Send emails that work


If your emails are getting deleted or not getting returned, or you’re playing a numbers game (sending 1,000 and hoping for a few random responses), you’re probably also blaming the recipient or the Internet for …

13388

GITOMER: Customize your writing


I’m writing on writing. It’s the core of my success. This article is the second part of a short course on how I write for each area of my outreach.

My success is all about …

13389

MCLELLAN: OK, so you screwed up — here’s what to do about it


I wish it weren’t so, but it’s inevitable that we’re going to make a mistake and we’re going to have an angry customer on our hands. The good news is, it’s almost always fixable if …

DSC 6869

Hy-Vee partners with growing eCoupon provider

Hy-Vee Inc. has partnered with paperless grocery coupon service SavingStar Inc. Hy-Vee shoppers will have the ability to redeem SavingStar eCoupons, which can be downloaded to a keytag available at the Hy-Vee customer service desks.…

DSC 6869

Catchfire partners with education marketing firm

Social media and technology consultancy Catchfire Media LLC has partnered with Cedar Rapids-based Stamats Inc. to provide digital marketing services to higher education institutions.

Stamats is a marketing firm that works with colleges and universities. …

DSC 6869

McLellan to speak at BIZ luncheon

Drew McLellan, owner of McLellan Marketing Group, will be the speaker at the Business Innovation Zone luncheon, starting at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Greater Des Moines Partnership Building, 700 Locust St. McLellan will speak …

DSC 6869

U.S. consumers are spending more

Retail sales picked up in July, boosted by auto purchases, gasoline sales and a jump in purchases of electronics, CNNMoney reported.

Total retail sales last month rose 0.5 percent, according to a report issued today …

13381

McCLELLAN: Summer reading that helps your business grow

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved to read. I read to escape. I read to explore, and I certainly read to learn. 

As an adult, business owner and marketing guy, I’ve added another …

13380

GITOMER: Writing for social media

My secret to writing is not complex: I write like I talk.

Writing in “speak” makes several things easy:

1. As long as you can think, or have an idea, or want to expand a …