Monthly Archives: January 2009

McDonald’s Cutting-Edge Marketing Strategy: Listen to Your Customers

Consumers are eating out less, and when they do, they’re choosing healthier fare than burgers washed down with super-sized jugs of cola accompanied by troughs of french fried potatoes. So what’s the world’s largest fast food chain to do? If you’re Larry Light, former global CMO of McDonald’s (MCD), you get back to basics.

Is Twitter Right for Your Brand?

Marketers, especially those working for web-savvy publishers in search of elusive eyeballs, have jumped on the bandwagon and begun using Twitter to broadcast daily headlines with deep links to encourage users to visit more frequently. But what if you’re not in the publishing game? Is there room in the Twitterverse for your brand too?

Protect Your 2009 Marketing Budget from the Cost-Cutting Hatchet

Most marketing professionals know the drill all too well - business gets slow, so marketing budgets get cut. In the snap of a finger, you can find yourself in a budget meeting being hacked to pieces by Sr. Management, while your carefully-laid marketing plans vanish before your very eyes. You stammer and stumble, pointing an accusing finger at the VP of Sales and asking why T&E can’t be scaled back instead (”…do we really need eight baseline seats for every home game?”) but to no avail, you’re going to be spending another year making watered-down lemonade from the paltry lemons you’re left with.

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