B+LOG
The AMA versus $4.5 Billion
Say your job description was: stay at home and watch television. Sweet, huh? Well during your hard day at work, you would see roughly 80 commercials for prescription drugs. That number has been growing since 1986, when ads for Seldane began appearing – the first ever from a major pharmaceutical company. In fact, since the…
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When Coming Together Means Going it Alone
Every successful business starts with a great idea… and a full business plan, production resources, a marketing campaign and, of course, the means to bring it all to life. Traditionally, entrepreneurs would have to reach out to investors for funds in exchange for shares of the business or profits. But thanks to sites like Kickstarter…
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Streaming Music Wars: A New Frontier
As a music lover, I still remember my first music streaming experience like it was yesterday. It was a hot, muggy August night and as an undergrad working a summer job I didn’t have the privilege of air conditioning. To combat my insomnia, I scoured the web for new music to pass the time and…
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How to Beat the 50 Percent
In the U.S., about half of new businesses survive their first five years, and even fewer (one-third) make it to ten. But thanks to business incubator programs, these odds are improving. Last week FaB Wisconsin, the state’s food and beverage industry consortium, launched its own incubator-like program called FaBcap – a food finance and business…
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TRENDWATCH: Highlights of the Marketing to Moms Conference
Marketing to moms is big business. It’s so big that there was a three-day conference on it in New York City recently. Advertising agencies and top brands such as Hasbro, Unilever, Nickelodeon and NBC Universal gathered to share their latest research which reinforces why moms are the single largest purchasing group in the world. While…
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Health Food Trend an Opportunity for Marketing Partnerships
Talk to any fitness fanatic, physician or health magazine editor and they’ll tell you a healthy lifestyle begins in the kitchen. In fact, 41% of Gen Z and 26% of Gen X’ers said they would be willing to pay more for healthy food, increasing the adoption of healthier eating habits as part of a holistic…
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Beware the Monster Brew
One of my favorite childhood memories was popcorn, a bottle of pop, and watching King Kong battle Godzilla on late night television. You always had a favorite, depending on your proclivity for apes or lizards, and there was always a clear winner and loser. No resident of Tokyo would ever imagine that the two giants…
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Bricks or clicks? Banking millennials say “BOTH!”
Joint bank accounts are kind of scary. I’m a bit of a Scrooge, so when I discovered my girlfriend also had penny pincher tendencies; I put a ring on it. No, that wasn’t the only reason we got married, but it was comforting to know she wouldn’t blow an entire paycheck on the latest DSW…
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How Fitness Apps Measure Up
Recently, I competed in the longest bike race of my life. In total, I spent 12 hours on a bike. I’ve run plenty of races, but biking felt like a whole different animal. I’d been training, but I still got the usual pre-race jitters. Since the race was so long, pacing was important. I needed…
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AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE: Augmented Reality and B2B
Last week’s blog looked at the meteoric rise in the use of virtual reality (VR) apps by consumer marketers, particularly in highly discretionary, visually driven segments like tourism. This week, we’ll look at the use of a similar technology, augmented reality (AR), in a very different universe – business-to-business (B2B) marketing. We’ve already defined virtual…
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