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Predicting 5 Marketing Trends for the Coming Year

Predicting 5 Marketing Trends for the Coming Year

It’s the end of another year, which means it’s a time when many companies like to predict marketing and advertising trends for the coming year. Back in January 2017, we predicted that video, chatbots, and personalization was going to be big that year, and our guess was arguably right on the money. Since the McFadden/Gavender prognosticators are clearly as good as any, we’re ready to reveal what will be the five hottest marketing and advertising trends in 2019.



What Is Growth Hacking? Is It Right for Your Business?

Growth hacking is a term currently being bandied about by marketing and advertising folk. It’s one of those phrases that the average person would have a hard time defining, even though the meanings of both words being used is clear. And yet, growth hacking is all the rage and if you talk to a marketing person, they’ll suggest it for your business. So … what the heck is growth hacking?


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How to Boost Sales with Multi-Channel Marketing

Marketing managers have a lot of options in for marketing tactics, which can make creating a cohesive marketing strategy difficult. Where should a company’s limited number of advertising dollars go? Should a marketing plan focus on web ads, email, mobile, social media, direct mail, print media, radio, TV, or pay-per-click? The answer is yes—all of them.


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Is Your Marketing Strategy Based on the Golden Circle?

In the movie Amistad, Theodore Joadson is a defense lawyer representing illegally purchased slaves who are accused of mutiny and murder after causing an uprising on the ship that was bringing them from Africa to Cuba. Public opinion was against the kidnapped slaves, so Joadson asks an elderly John Quincy Adams for help. Adams asks Joadson, “What’s their story?” Joadson starts telling Adams that the group of men is from West Africa, when Adams interrupts, saying, “No … what is their story? You know what they are, but what you don’t know—and from what I can tell, haven’t bothered in the least to discover—is who they are.”