Marketing Consulting Blog

Welcome back!Since I’m preparing to head out of town shortly and haven’t posted in a couple of days, I figured I’d share the interesting things I’ve been reading today.
Companies making the news today:1) Wal-Mart: Would you like some glass mixed in with your trail mix? Yet another reason NOT to shop at Wal-Mart. As [...]

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I’m sure many of you have read or heard about the Microsoft blogger “scandal.” If not, click here to read an E-Week piece on it if you wish. To summarize, Microsoft and AMD sent some prominent bloggers a honking Vista based laptops for them to test out. Initially they said the folks [...]

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The other night my girlfriend and I went out to dinner with some friends of hers, and the topic of cooking came up and how it seemed we just didn’t have the time to cook as much as we’d like. One of the men sitting at the table mentioned Little Caesar’s and how he [...]

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This is a memo leaked to the public written by Brad Garlinghouse, a higher ranking management official of the company. It’s been referred to as the “Peanut Butter Manifesto.” It’s an interesting read that further demonstrates you can have a successful company yet still need a LOT of help strategically. Think they could use some [...]

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