Guest Blog: Trade Shows as a Market Research Tool
Our busy work schedules sometimes don’t allow us the luxury to do a focus group or send out surveys as frequently as we would like. However, a trade show does give you a great opportunity to listen to clients or potential clients, and find out...
Guest Blog: Experience #lifeincbus: Change the image perception of Columbus
Being born and raised in Columbus, I knew what others thought of my city - “It’s a Cowtown,” “all of Ohio is flat corn fields” and “everything shuts down after dinner.” I also knew that those things couldn’t be further from the truth. When I...
Guest Blog: Joining #ILookLikeAnEngineer was the Right Thing To Do
The expression on the young woman’s face grabbed my attention. She wore a vague smile, but her eyes had sadness in them. In the photo on my monitor, Isis Anchalee held up a handwritten sign that read, “I help build enterprise software.” Beneath it, she’d...
Guest Blog: Member Spotlight
Name: Stephanie Sammons Company: Ohio State Bar Association Job Title: Senior Manager, Marketing & Branding Strategies Tell me how you first got involved in Marketing. I landed my first job in marketing, as digital marketing manager at Bob Evans, without actually having any formalized marketing experience (my background was primarily...
Guest Blog: Digital Audits – A Tool to help Predict Future Consumer Actions
We marketers spend powerful amounts of organizational resources to find, communicate with, motivate to act, and drive to action completion members of our target markets. Our toolkit is an integrated bag of media that is in a consistently evolving condition. The media choices made by...
Guest Blog: How Hot Chicken Takeover Took Over Columbus
If you don’t know about this restaurant, you will soon. It was just named by Columbus Alive as the best new restaurant in 2015 based on a reader’s poll. I bet what you didn’t know is how the owner, Joe Deloss makes a concerted to...
AMA Spring Membership Drive
American Marketing Association become bigger. become stronger. become smarter. become a member. Give your career an advantage you won't get anywhere else. Become a member. When you join the AMA, you arm yourself with toolkits, webcasts, white papers, articles, event, best practices, publications, and the largest network of marketing professionals anywhere....
Four things I learned when building my personal brand
For more than 10 years I’ve been working in the marketing field, helping companies solve all sorts of communication issues. I can whip up copy or knock out strategy quite fast – and it’s not because I’m any better at my profession, it’s because I’ve...
April Luncheon: Marketing to Millennials
The largest and most influential generation of consumers ever – Millennials – are no longer an unreachable audience. While some of the top brands and marketers fear the unknown of the “enigma generation,” the real winners are those who engage and interact with today’s Millennials. Jeff Fromm,...
Behind the Brand: The Story of #NewCrew (part III of III)
Behind the Brand: The Story of #NewCrew By Ryan Schwepfinger You've seen the street ads, digital billboards and social teaser campaigns. TheCrew.com's Ryan Schwepfinger is your go-to source for an inside look at the club's new identity and the process of bringing it to life, with a...