Posts Tagged ‘Marketing’


The customer is always at least a little bit right

Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2015 by DaveK | 0 Comments
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Putting yourself in the customer’s shoes is a good way to validate whether your marketing campaigns and customer support processes reward or unnecessarily punish those who purchase or subscribe to your offerings.

Finding a creative outlet when you work as a creative

Monday, Sep 22nd, 2014 by JacquiK | 0 Comments
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Marketing, advertising and related industries are both a blessing and a curse for the creatively inclined. Being paid to do something that comes naturally is a wonderful feeling – and positive feedback is nice, too. (Who doesn’t like receiving compliments?) What creatives rarely talk about is the impact that work can have on their personal […]

Market segmentation: Lessons learned from the gaming industry at PAX Prime 2011

Monday, Aug 29th, 2011 by DaveK | 0 Comments
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Our consulting business shifts from time to time. Sometimes we’re heavy on content creation, other times community building, and – right now – we’re focused on marketing support in the videogame industry. This means spending a lot of time considering different market segments and how to effectively reach them with a message that customers want so they’ll […]

Why does it have to be ‘fine print’? Make it big!

Thursday, Apr 7th, 2011 by DaveK | 0 Comments
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There may sometimes be gaps in our postings when business is particularly good, as it has been these past several months. But we always try to look for lessons in our work that we can share. For example: I’ve been doing marketing support for a major technology company. This generally means I do whatever needs […]

Gift return: Six ways to improve your holiday client gift giving this year

Monday, Nov 8th, 2010 by JacquiK | 0 Comments
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With Halloween behind us and the U.S. Thanksgiving just weeks away, the holidays are upon us. For business owners, this spells a marketing opportunity that many take for granted – particularly small business owners. This year, think outside of the gift box when choosing your client gifts, and potentially keep your brand in front of […]

TMI, dude! Why asking for too much information is the wrong marketing move

Friday, Oct 29th, 2010 by DaveK | 0 Comments
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I recently clicked through an offer to get a free Back to the Future game episode from Telltale Games. It’s a promotion designed to hook you in to purchasing the full series of games when they’re released. The site prompted me for my login, which I had created the last time they did one of these […]

Do hoaxes and fear tactics have a place in social media?

Tuesday, Oct 5th, 2010 by DaveK | 5 Comments
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We follow game communities and social media closely – it’s our area of greatest passion and expertise. So when GOG.com (aka Good Old Games) hinted that they were closing their virtual doors, we – along with many others we follow who have bought classic PC games from them – lamented the apparent loss. But it […]

Community manager and social media lessons from PAX Prime 2010

Tuesday, Sep 7th, 2010 by DaveK | 2 Comments
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As a content creator/consultant who works in social media and is trying to get back into gaming community work, I attended two panels at Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) Prime 2010 with great interest. The lessons shared from these panels transcend the gaming industry, which is leading the charge in both of these spaces – but other […]

Stupid Marketing Tricks: TNT’s fake mix tape doesn’t ‘Say Anything’ interesting

Wednesday, Nov 25th, 2009 by JacquiK | 0 Comments
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Cable network TNT sent its marketing team in the wayback machine this week to send out a “sneak peek” at a new show, Men of a Certain Age. Which, based on the cast (Scott Bakula, Andre Braugher and Ray Romano) is somewhere in the late 40s to early 50s. Presumably, these men of a certain […]