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Digital click turns into in person community

From Clicks to Community: Could Gen Z’s Digital Wellness Movement Reshape Marketing?

In the 1990s, I worked for Golf Digest, and I marketed the company’s golf schools and events. We certainly weren’t chasing clicks or optimizing social media campaigns in those early days of the internet. Instead, we were bringing golfers together. We built communities around a shared passion, creating experiences that deepened people’s connection to the

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Warning: May Cause Stuck Song Syndrome

A psoriasis TV ad—with its peppy, nonsensical jingle—gave me a full-blown case of Stuck Song Syndrome. Image: Peakpix.com / Creative Commons 0 Three percent of the US population has psoriasis. Specifically, 2.5-2.7% have Plaque Psoriasis, and the other .4-ish percent have Psoriatic Arthritis. All together, that’s a very small percentage of people. So, why do U.S. drug manufacturers

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Improve Comprehension and Capture Attention with Infographic Images

I love a good infographic. Data represented in a visual way is just so much more engaging than words and numbers alone. Infographics capture attention and improve the reader’s understanding of your data, too. According to this NLM article, information is more likely to be retained when learned from an infographic. Search Engine Journal goes so far as to say that infographics

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Emotion, Persuasion, and Public Service Announcements

Emotion, Persuasion, and Public Service Announcements PSAs aim to persuade viewers to support a cause. To be successful, they should rely on inducing emotion as a means to persuasion. The Ad Council has been crafting memorable and persuasive public service announcements (PSAs) for over 80 years. They launched President Kennedy’s Peace Corps program in 1960

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Brilliance in Billboards: The Six Second Rule.

Six seconds. Seven words. I’ve created advertising campaigns for digital, print, and some out-of-home media (supermarket and doctor’s office TV networks). I never had the opportunity to work on billboard advertising. However, billboards are my favorite type of ad, due to the six second rule, which dictates a seven-word text maximum. “Less is more! Remember

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