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Six Ways to Build a Better Print Ad

Many healthcare practices advertise their services in newspapers, magazines and yellow pages in an attempt to attract new patients to their practices. To help you avoid wasting money on ads that are neither expertly done nor effective, here are six basic tips for creating a more effective print ad in any medium... READ»

The Internet and the Death Rattle of Print Advertising

The phrase death rattle is not a pleasant one, however, it may describe the current state of print advertising, specifically, as it relates to real estate. Print advertising has been the main venue of real estate advertising for ...READ»

Fast Company Takes Home Second Straight Loeb Award!

Fast Company announced that it is the recipient of a 2008 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Editor-at-Large Charles Fishman’s article “Message in a Bottle,” about the business of bottled ...READ»

Memo to Wal-Mart: There are Better Ways

If you opened your local newspaper today, in between the department store white sales and the latest from Iraq, you might have seen Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott defending the pay and benefits it offers its employees in a full-page ad. The ...READ»

Viral Blanketing

Talk about interoffice advocacy... and then some! When Rob Davis, a relatively new hire at Minneapolis-based PR firm Haberman & Assoc., was hit by a virus on his home PC, he didn't just clean up his hard drive, he started using a new ...READ»

Stranger Than Fiction

I’m looking for comments on a fictitious ad that was run in several newspapers and their online sites by Philadelphia Media Holdings. The ad’s ran in papers such as The Inquirer, Daily News and on Philly.com and were used as a ...READ»

Let Your Fingers Do the Walking.

According to a recent Practice Builders market survey, more than a third of healthcare practices still use Yellow Pages advertising as one of their primary external marketing tactics. If you're going to use Yellow Pages, make sure to do it right.READ»

Looking at ads

I must confide that I learn as much from a magazine's advertisements as I do the articles themselves. I don't read them as a consumer, rather as an observer of the passing business parade (and contemporary ad agency thinking). ...READ»

Infinitely Deferred Gratification

I'm not sure everyone in the financial world is up to speed on the attitudinal shift we're discussing. A half-page ad in last weekend's San Francisco Chronice featured the headline, "Why do we work?" displayed over the photo of an ...READ»

Running With Fast Company II

What you won't read in this story is that Fast Company is the only business magazine to have increased its circulation last year or that this year we've gained market share in ad pages against both Fortune and Business Week. But ...READ»

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Beer Branding

Heineken has an interesting online branding campaign that goes along with its very funny print campaign. It allows you to send a hoax news story to a friend, purportedly from Maxim or The Sporting News. Titles range from "Study Shows ...READ»

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Sustainability: The Green Age of Advertising

While reading through The New York Times on Monday, I came across a giant blue ad proclaiming "It took 125 years to use the first trillion barrels of oil. We'll use the next trillion in 30." More blue boxes showed up on subsequent ...READ»

Marketing Tuesday: Print Advertising Measurement Evolves to Include Online Responses

Online is the new offline. Like most catch phrases this one doesn't really say anything earth-shattering; it isn’t really news that more and more things are going digital. What it does rather neatly encapsulate is that in implying ...READ»

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Rock Star Engineers Debut in Intel's New Advertising Campaign That Focuses on the Future

When Intel decided to retool its largest advertising push in years, the chipmaker wanted to make a familiar statement: "our products make everyday life possible." But Santa Clara-based advertising firm Venables Bell ...READ»

Lessons in Building Self-Confidence from Helen Gurley Brown

Publishing legend and original Cosmo Girl Helen Gurley Brown is now 86 and overssed production of nearly 60 international editions of Cosmopolitan. Her secret: self-confidence. If you want to become self confident you need to do three things. 1) Become and optimist. 2) Face your fears and act. 3) Surround yourself with positive people.READ»

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Slumdog Springboard: Marketing on the Back of the Oscar-Winning Movie

The morning after the Oscars, a full-page ad appeared in The New York Times. It had a photo of the Mumbai cityspace and a "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" gameboard. "Why do millions of people die from treatable ...READ»