People often ask me to choose my favorite part of our Marketing APEX Summits, and my answer is always the same: I can’t! The keynote speakers are incredibly inspiring. The training sessions are extremely informative. The networking is absolutely invaluable. On top of all that, there’s the entertainment, the setting (this year we were in [...]
2013 Marketing APEX Summit Is April 8-11
I can’t believe a year has passed by already! It doesn’t seem all that long ago that we were in Las Vegas, captivated by keynote speakers like Porter Gale and Scott Bedbury, and now here we are, gearing up for a new Marketing APEX Summit, which will take place in New Orleans, April 8 – [...]
What Marketers Can Learn From The Madness Of March Madness
If you’ve spent the last month under a rock, you’ve likely managed to miss all the fuss around March Madness, the much-beloved NCAA basketball tournament that ramps up around this time every year. But, if you went to a college represented in the “Sweet Sixteen,” you’re watching. If you dislike a college represented in the [...]
Reaching Men With . . . History?
Women have long been the favorite targets of television networks, in part because traditional roles kept wives and mothers at home during more hours of the day when small screens first found their way into homes. While more women now work outside of their homes than ever before, they still remain far more likely than [...]
What The Harlem Shake Teaches Us About Authenticity
Remember playing “telephone” when you were a kid –you know, the game that starts when one person whispers a message (the more complicated the better) to another, and then that person whispers the message to the next person, and so on through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the [...]
RIM’s BlackBerry: Comeback Kid Or Bench Warmer?
Ever since Research in Motion released its first email pager back in 1999, the company has been the sweetheart of the corporate world. By the mid 2000s, however, BlackBerry ownership extended far beyond the office park, and addicted users –business execs, soccer moms, teenagers and celebrities alike –started calling their phones “CrackBerries,” which, as you [...]
Coke’s New Anti-Obesity Ad Campaign
Let’s be honest. Health and fitness are not the first things that come to mind when most of us think about Coca-Cola. However, The Coca-Cola Company is hoping a new ad campaign will change all that. As revealed in a recent press release, “The Coca-Cola Company is reinforcing its efforts to work together with American [...]








