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Remote Work: Before and After the Pandemic

Remote work has become a widely accepted and common practice in many companies, but the way it was...

Why is discipline important when it comes to marketing?

Marketing is a critical function for any business. It is the process of creating, communicating,...

Zoom is Draining Your Team. Here’s An Alternative.

Cardwell Beach has been a remote company since our founding. Today, our employees work across the...

How to Survive Trade Show Season, Part One

It’s the beginning of a new year. Time to set a fresh round of quarterly goals, fine-tune your branding, and finally put that new internal strategy into place. Oh, and it’s also trade show season. And with that comes the trade show hangover. Remember the last time you attended CES in Las Vegas, or that […]

The Car as a Service: Why Renting, Not Owning, is the New Frontier

When the Smart Car first appeared in the US in 2008, it raised some questions, perhaps the biggest being: would Americans used to trucks, sports cars, and open highways drive such tiny vehicles? While European drivers had been using Smart Cars for years, the driving conditions in Europe—congested cities, high fuel costs, and relative proximity—are […]

Using marketing technology vs. being used by marketing technology

This week some of the most influential people in creative media, marketing, and advertising are all gathered together in one spot—Cannes—for the annual Cannes Lions festival. And just like every year, luminaries in the marketing and design fields share insights they’ve learned while working with brands large and small. We’ve been keeping an eye on […]

Gracefully degrading your work

There’s a web term you might not have heard before, although you would likely know it when you see it. It’s called graceful degradation, and it works like this: when you visit a website in a modern, standards-compliant web browser, you see all the bells and whistles, all the features, and all the elegant web […]

Volkswagen’s Slow Recovery: An Update

We’ve spent a lot of time here talking about the ways Volkswagen can begin to recover from a catastrophic emissions cheating scandal—first in an analysis of VW executives’ public messaging and then a deep dive into the problems ahead for the company. Our advice has boiled down to: be transparent. After all, it was likely […]

What photography can teach us in the digital age

To create something new requires making a series of decisions. When you’re creating, all you are doing is deciding what to leave in or leave out. And it takes discipline to leave the right stuff out. That’s why I love photography. There is no purer constraint than a photo frame. Recently I met someone on […]

Podcasts Are Underserved: An Update

Earlier this year, we looked into the ways that podcasts are a rarity in today’s digital media landscape: an underserved digital niche. Indeed, while it seems like every other form of digital media has a robust ecosystem supporting it—from the boom in streaming music services to the myriad outlets for digital video—podcasts remain the sometimes […]

Listen To: Can Volkswagen Recover? Part Two

I joined Dave Donars, Chief Research Officer at Cardwell Beach, to discuss whether the legendary Volkswagen brand can recover from its self-inflicted injuries after a major emissions cheating scandal. The short answer: it doesn’t look good, but there may be some light ahead in the proverbial tunnel. Take a listen to hear the second part […]

Listen To: Can Volkswagen Recover?

I joined Dave Donars, Chief Research Officer at Cardwell Beach, to discuss whether the legendary Volkswagen brand can recover from its self-inflicted injuries after a major emissions cheating scandal. The short answer: it doesn’t look good, but there may be some light ahead in the proverbial tunnel. Take a listen to learn more. Podcast Transcription […]

iPads are useless (but they were important)

Perhaps you remember the iPad launch of 2010? Though the idea of the tablet computer wasn’t new, Apple stamped its approval on the device by releasing their own version and instantly set the Internet abuzz. First came the jokes, then came the skepticism. Eventually, though, a third reaction appeared: cautious optimism. Perhaps this super-sized iPhone […]

Podcasting Is An Underserved Medium

For those of you who may not know, we love podcasts here at Cardwell Beach. We listen to them, we analyze them, we even produce our own. As marketers, though, we’ve noticed something: despite the incredible growth and popularity of podcasts, there hasn’t been a corresponding growth in the ecosystem that enables podcasts to truly […]

Talking With—Not At—Your Website

We were intrigued recently by a Medium post from Tomaž Štolfa of Layer which explored the evolution of what he called “conversational interfaces” from DOS to the desktop trash can to instant messaging to more recent arrivals like SMS and Slack. His conclusion? Nearly every product or service online today “has or will soon have […]

Your Innovation Problems Start With Your Haircut

I should clarify something before we get started: I’m not talking about your actual haircut, which I’m sure is stylish. Instead, I’m talking about the experience of getting your hair cut—especially your interactions with the person who is doing the cutting. Let me explain. As a CMO and sales executive, I talk to people all […]

Companies Are The New Bloggers

Here at Cardwell Beach, we love user experience design. There’s a lot you can learn simply from reading the insights that UX designers gather, whether or not you’re designing a website or a mobile interface. (For example, good UX design emphasizes the essential business principle of putting the customer first.) But we’ve also noticed something […]

How CMOs at Fortune 1000 Companies Can Adopt Start-Up Thinking

These days, it seems like everyone and their best friend are hard at work at their start-up. It’s become a nationwide trend, as coders, designers, and entrepreneurs join forces to bring their dreams to life. Many will fail, some will succeed, but along the way, they’ll learn some important lessons about leading teams, managing investors, […]

3 Content Marketing Trends Shaping 2016

Marketing using “content”—be it blogs, storytelling, visuals, or audio—is quickly becoming an industry-wide trend: roughly 70% of marketers surveyed in 2015 by the Content Marketing Institute reported having produced more content last year than the year before. Nearly 90% of the marketers surveyed said they were doing some type of content marketing overall, the Institute […]

How Inspiration Can Power Your Work

“When inspiration strikes” is an old adage, but it still has some truth. We do work better, in fact, when we’re seized by the moment, struck by an amazing idea, or inspired by a flash of brilliance. But the fact is that inspiration doesn’t visit us on a regular schedule. Often, instead of having a […]

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