by Jeff Slater | Jul 5, 2017 | Marketing Advice, Marketing People
Imagine a company that takes surplus goods like military tents and parachutes, employs veterans and sells stylized handbags, tote bags, travel bags, messenger bags, duffels and gives back 10% of their profits to this community. Let’s salute Sword & Plough and the...
by Jeff Slater | Jul 3, 2017 | Branding Issues, Foodpreneurs, Marketing Advice
Blue Apron is a company that appeared out of nowhere and is valued at more than two billion dollars. They started in 2014 selling meal kits directly to consumers. CEO Matt Salzberg told Quartz, an online publication in February 2016. “We’re helping people learn new...
by Jeff Slater | Jun 30, 2017 | Interesting Brands, Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups
When I got my first job sometime after graduate school, I had an office where I sold advertising space for a magazine called House Plants & Porch Gardens. I think I lasted about six months, but it was an eye-opening experience. They put me in an office with a...
by Jeff Slater | Jun 28, 2017 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Advice
Twenty years ago, I had a marketing challenge that left me puzzled. At the time, I was VP of Marketing for GoodMark Foods, the company that owned a portfolio of snack brands like Slim Jims, Pemmican, Andy Capp’s Snacks and several other brands. We sold most of our...
by Jeff Slater | Jun 26, 2017 | Marketing Advice
The new quality engineer opened the email on her phone and saw a message from a company she had never heard of before. The picture showed a solution to a problem she was working on and provided a few brief bullet points to demonstrate that the sender was empathetic...
by Jeff Slater | Jun 23, 2017 | Branding Issues, Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups
In most situations, we don’t help our customers by offering them more choices than they need. We make deciding more difficult. When attention is the most important thing a potential client or customer can give us, we don’t want to make it hard for them to act. Imagine...
