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Just spoke at AMA Chicago BrandSmart about a favorite topic, reimagining your marketing channels. Using examples across media and formats, I shared how to about them differently. I started with email ...

A marketing plan turns choices into numbers, timelines, and owners your marketing team can ship. A well crafted marketing plan ties marketing strategy, marketing efforts, and business objectives to ...

In classic marketing theory, distribution is one of the "Four P's" of the marketing mix, which refers to the core elements of Product, Price, Place and Promotion. Where you sell is sometimes just as ...

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From your Instagram page to your company website, there are many paths to reach your target audience. However, only owned marketing channels offer complete authority over your brand’s message. Owned ...

A lot of marketers will tell you that they’re “channel-agnostic” when figuring out where to put their spend. The idea is to deploy resources across various channels, see how they perform … and then ...