In this Marketing RANT, I’m covering a Marketing Promotion Case Study that highlights how a movie theater chain offered a promotion that resulted in their staff turning customers AWAY. Read on and learn about the marketing promotion mistakes that were…
In this Marketing Rave, I’m focusing on why EVERY business & non-profit on the planet should be doing email marketing each month, plus specific email marketing tips related to best practices for this highly effective marketing tactic. I sometimes find…
In this Marketing Rant, I’m focusing on Logo Design Best Practices, because of a recent experience. A company decided to pitch us, and sent a postcard with nothing more than a black background, their logo & a tagline. The logo…
In this Marketing Rant, I’m focusing on marketing messaging best practices because of an unsolicited business pitch we received that had marketing messaging mistakes in it. Let’s start by defining marketing messaging. Marketing messaging is the cornerstone of everything you…
This month's DeWinter Marketing Rant deals with Direct Marketing Mistakes that could easily have been avoided, with some common sense and thought. In the past 2 months, I've received two unsolicited mailings that violated every 101-level best practice related to…
In this crisis PR RAVE, I'm going to talk about the brilliant responses from Disney/ABC and Sanofi Corp, makers of the Ambien insomnia drug, regarding the Roseanne Barr Racist Tweet Scandal. In the world of crisis PR case studies, the…
This crisis PR case study could well be named "A Tale of Two Companies," and this month's focus on crisis PR includes both a "Rave" and a "Rant" by covering two big companies that faced a PR crisis in recent…
I’ve covered a lot of Marketing RAVES lately: now I’m covering one of the biggest marketing gaffes of the year which was completely avoidable: the H&M Monkey Shirt scandal. Here’s what happened: Marketers & product developers at H&M, an international…
While many people watch the Super Bowl for the football, those of us in marketing watch the commercials so we can offer a perspective on the best Super Bowl Commercial - in this case, for 2018. Plenty of the Super…
One of the great marketing videos of 2017 was produced for a New Zealand police department, and this video ROCKS, when it comes to challenging people to consider becoming a police officer. Instead of a boring scene with an officer…
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