With the multitude of marketing technology resources available moving toward 2016, a well-conceived roadmap has never been more crucial. Building a marketing technology stack from the growing number of options available—from 100 software choices back in 2011 to 1,876 and counting in 2015—means navigating a crowded landscape and harnessing ever-increasing amounts of data. What should […]
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Rebranding after a Merger or Acquisition: Lessons From Brands Outperforming Market Averages
In 2008, Budweiser, the beer brand that Americans drink more than any other, stopped being American. With parent company Anheuser-Busch purchased by Belgian firm InBev, the new company needed to reassure both customers and investors that neither its product nor its market share would change with the new ownership. And so they rebranded the new […]
Dispatches by an Ad Intern Working Abroad #5: Munich, Germany
Unfiltered dispatches by our vagabond intern, Andrew Santis, who is studying and working abroad. Day 1 Leaving Berlin in the late afternoon meant sacrificing half a day in Munich because the train ride from Berlin to Munich was seven hours long (not including almost guaranteed delays), so in order to make up for the loss […]
In corporate hiring parlance, the term “tournament system” may sound to the uninitiated like friendly company softball competition. In reality it refers to something far less benign. The practice of hiring large numbers of competitive entry-level candidates and weeding them out through overwork until only a select few remain has been commonplace at law firms […]
The (Terrifying) Process of Sending Your Intern Abroad
Work from anywhere in the world with unconstrained freedom” sounds like a dream come true as an employee, but is absolutely terrifying as that employee’s manager. I know firsthand– as my intern Andrew Santis boarded his flight, setting out to work remotely in Europe for the summer as a cultural experiment, the hair stood up on the […]
Dispatches by an Ad Intern Working Abroad #4: Berlin, Germany
Unfiltered dispatches by our vagabond intern, Andrew Santis, who is studying and working abroad. Berlin is officially my favorite city in Germany. I could end this blog entry at that sentence, but I’m sure you want to know why Berlin is my favorite German city. Well, I don’t want to rant about how great/beautiful/amazing Berlin […]
Dispatches by an Ad Intern Working Abroad #3: Hamburg, Germany
Unfiltered dispatches by our vagabond intern, Andrew Santis, who is studying and working abroad. The night before I got on the train to Hamburg, I was very excited about arriving at Germany’s famous port city. After two somewhat dull weeks in Frankfurt and Cologne, I anticipated there would be a very significant change of pace […]
Resources to Create a Digital Marketing Org Chart for 2016
Download our customizable org chart template here. Organizational Structure We’ve seen a number of recommendations on different org structures, but Hubspot’s is definitely the best. There are 7 fresh approaches to the marketing org chart in today’s fully digital world, and the best part is each one is based on interviews with real Chief Marketing […]
Dispatches by an Ad Intern Working Abroad #2: Cologne, Germany
Unfiltered dispatches by our vagabond intern, Andrew Santis, who is studying and working abroad. Cologne, Day 1 In the scorching 100° weather, I made my way from Frankfurt to Cologne. My biggest challenge of the day was dealing with the three bags I’ve been lugging around since the end of May. There’s a bag full […]
Dispatches by an Ad Intern Working Abroad #1: Frankfurt
Unfiltered dispatches by our vagabond intern, Andrew Santis, who is studying and working abroad. Frankfurt Day 1 I’ve never travelled as much as I have in the past month, and I love every part of it… except the actual traveling part. Traveling, especially with three items of luggage, can be difficult, tiring, irritating, etc. Getting […]
Cardwell Beach’s Off-Site Brand Day
Every summer we practice what we preach and assess our own brand. We want to reach the next level quickly, so the focus for this year’s session was for the management team to align on a clear 10-week plan aimed at rapid transformation. We know that marketing is what will propel us to the next level, and that […]
Market-ING
When I think of the word Marketing it often reminds me of the sea. The three most important letters of the word are unassumingly tacked onto the end: ING. When many people speak (and I would assume, think) about marketing, they speak like it happens at a moment in time. It is viewed as something […]
Spring 2015: The Golden Age of the Subway Ad
Ever stand in a packed rush hour subway car finding yourself captivated by an ad for…a mattress company? Thanks to artful hand-drawn illustrations, clever captions and a whimsical feel, online mattress start-up Casper manages to accomplish the unthinkable. They’re getting jaded New Yorkers to smile on their commute. They’re also getting us to consider replacing a rather […]
6 Innovative, Scary Marketing Trends That Will Put You In the Lead in 2015
This post isn’t for companies trying to survive maybe one more year—it’s for innovators looking to shake up markets and dominate industries. As we head into 2015, you’re likely hearing about the importance of content marketing, social listening, marketing automation, etc. Those status-quo tactics are all great and should be done, but they won’t put […]
Spatial Distortion: a case for the borderless work environment
First there were private offices, then cubicles, then the open concept. Turning the modern office space into an environment conducive to creating good advertising has been a minor preoccupation since the first creative dragged his briefcase to work. In any case, I recently read two articles about office renovation experiments: one was about the Barbarian Group’s […]
What Will Make Your Sales Reps Sound Smarter?
Here’s a loaded question: who do you trust more, someone unintelligent or someone who has a well-researched answer to every question? Sales are won by the reps that customers know, like and trust. In our personal lives, all of us can name plenty of acquaintances that we know and like, but we’d be slow to […]
Stubborn or Persistent?
There’s a subtle distinction between stubbornness and persistence. It’s easy to mistake one for the other, both as a first-person doer and a second-person observer. I remember watching a documentary on a real estate billionaire, David Siegel, who was building the largest and most expensive house in America, called Versailles; during construction, the financial meltdown of […]
The Worst Sin in Sales (and Marketing)
“The worst sin in sales is not to lose a deal, but to lose a deal slowly.” – John Barrows. There is a lot of wisdom in these words, both from a sales and marketing perspective. It is obvious in sales that time is literally money, and more time spent chasing bad deals means less time for […]
Creating a Unique Sales App: Interviewing Your Top Sales Reps to Uncover Problems
There are a hundred problems you could solve for your sales team, but some are certainly more pressing than others. The last thing you want is to spend a pile of cash on technology nobody uses. To ensure you create an app your sales reps actually use, you need to figure out what problems they’re […]
3 Things Traditional Agencies (Still) Don’t Get About Digital
Stop Killing Time StumbleUpon came and went. Time-wasting websites and apps are on par with logo-emblazoned pens. There may have been a period in the early 2000s where people wanted to use the internet just for the sake of using it, but that’s over. People are super busy now, so give them something that makes […]









