It's another election week in the United States of America. Monday November 4th is when this article gets published on my website and the audio version is released as episode 353 of the Genuine ScLoHo Media and Marketing podcast. Because I work in the media, specially...
My favorite carbonated beverage is changing their branding. So I'm going to stop drinking it in protest. Just kidding. Mountain Dew is changing their labeling to Mountain Dew. I know, that sounds weird but it's a visual change, not a verbal change. Here's the story...
Debbie Fields was only 21 years old when she opened her first Mrs. Fields Cookies store in Palo Alto, California in 1977. Seven short years later, in 1984, the marketing “novice” had 160 stores selling more than $45 million worth of Mrs. Fields Cookies. There are a...
Continuing a short series focused on Audio Advertising as it's sometimes called, this week I'm going to highlight a radio format we call Sports Talk. As a radio veteran of a few decades and a radio listener for even longer, listening to sports on the radio was a part...
I've been getting a lot of research and data coming my direction that I've decided to share with you in a series of articles I'm labeling Audio Advertising. As a business owner or just a regular consumer, we hear and read various things that we might think are more...
About once a year I share some insider information about the state of radio, specifically WOWO radio, the primary radio station I've represented since 2013. Today's the day for an update. A lot has happened the past 11 years I've been here. WOWO had their 90th...
Just a quick word of caution today about your company name... it's more valuable than you think. A story about the Campbell Soup Company wanting to change their name after 155 years hit my inbox this week and I hope that they handle this carefully. Mediapost.com's...
Are you annoyed by ads? Most of us are, and that creates an interesting conundrum for businesses that need to invite potential customers to spend money with them via advertising. In the early 1980's when I was a top 40 rock and roll radio disc jockey on WMEE, I...
Frequently I've pushed back against generational stereotypes with the simple premise that activities and behaviors that are being assigned and labeled according to what generation a person is, are really due to lifestyle and life-stage. And while many of that is still...