Marketing Products: Setting Product Strategy
A product is anything that can be marketed to satisfy a want or need, including physical goods, services, experiences, events, persons, places, properties, organizations, information, and ideas. These can include people, experiences, events, goods, services, places, organization, ideas and information. In this blog, I’ll give an over view of the steps needed to successfully strategically place a product into a marketplace.
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Products: Barbie Branding & Marketing History
Barbie and Mattel have teamed up to create one of the longest living toys in America and have not only influenced the toy industry but American culture. In this two part series, I’ll first take you through a glimpse of the history of the Barbie brand and its marketing presence. Then, I’ll delve into the famous Barbie and Ken break up marketing campaign in part two.
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Meeting Fijit: Mattel’s New Interactive Toy
We recently received a Fijit at the office and decided to record ourselves opening and playing with it. The second video is in the full post below. Enjoy!
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Advertising: QR Codes Part 2: Pros and Cons
When there are pros, there are always cons. Quick Response codes can be a useful digital tool for some but they are not for everyone. In Part 2 of QR codes I’ll discuss the bright and not so bright sides of QR codes in relation to business marketing.
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Advertising: QR Codes Part 1: The Basics
In the last five days I’d estimate I’ve seen over fifteen QR codes throughout my day-to-day activities. I’ve seen them in magazines and on billboards and posters across industries like fashion, food and movies, among others. QR codes seem to be getting more and more creative as businesses, small and large, begin to integrate them into their media. I will cover QR codes in a three part blog series where I’ll first discuss the basics and of QR codes in relation to business marketing, the pros and drawbacks of QR codes and lastly, the growing creativity of the codes.
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