Corporate Logos for Sale: How to capture the real value from sponsorship marketing

Companies have long tied their corporate logos to well-known sports teams and celebrities as a way to increase brand recognition and target a well-defined customer segment. But for many companies, the choice of a sponsorship property-whether it is the NFL, World Cup soccer or a brooding rock star-is often based on the CEO’s favorite past time or as a means of gaining access to high-profile … [ Read more ]

Banner Ads Click with Consumers: Online Advertising for Customer Retention

Banner advertising helps companies retain customers by bringing them back to a company’s Web site faster and encouraging them to spend more.

That Ad is So Entertaining…But Can It Sell? Who Knows

An entertaining commercial on a prime-time television show might be a good way to build a brand’s image, but a straightforward spot with a prominent toll-free phone number is the best way for a company to move inventory fast, according to Ron Bliwas, chief executive of ad agency A. Eicoff & Co., who spoke last month at Wharton. Bliwas discussed both successful and unsuccessful commercials, … [ Read more ]

Andrew Ehrenberg

In practice, there is no generalizable evidence on any lasting persuasive effects of advertising – at least not enough to justify a global spend of billions… Advertising lacks consistently dynamic effects because of, once again, competition. Your competitors’ omnipresent retail availability, quality control, category management, CRM, promotion, and advertising all interfere. Left to itself, advertising your brand would, of course, work wonders.

Realistically, I maintain that … [ Read more ]

Seth Godin

A promotion is worthless if it doesn’t translate interruption into a permission given. If all you do is interrupt, then it’s a waste of time.

Better Methods

Suppose you could really figure out why advertising works.

Editor’s Note: discusses the Taguchi Method, something those with engineering and/or manufacturing backgrounds may have heard of.