Agency

What B2B and B2C marketers can learn from each other.

Business-to-consumer and business-to-business marketers seem to exist in separate universes, each with its own sales process, marketing tactics and even marketing software, publications and events.

But are they really that different? While selling to consumers differs in some key ways from selling to businesses, the differences are declining.

What if a network undercuts an agency?

I need the opinion of my Hispanic advertising colleagues.

What would you think of a TV Network going directly to a client of yours – without letting you, the agency, know – to present to them a program that you had already presented to your client? And presenting it as a less expensive option because the client can get it net from the network? Of course trying to mess up the client-agency relationship comes as a derivative of this action.

By: Enrique R. Turegano.

CPG Marketers Ramp Up Direct Sales

Triad Digital Media represents a unique but growing niche known as retail online media. The company creates custom and targeted content for e-commerce sites and marketers that attract consumers to digital storefronts. The goal is to deliver online and offline sales. CEO Greg Murtagh spoke with eMarketer about consumer packaged goods marketers segueing into online direct sales and the key issues involved in that transition. By Greg Murtagh – CEO / Triad Digital Media. Available on HispanicCMO.com

Preserving ‘Mexicaness’.

Multiculturalism is a hot topic today. The population of the U.S. is changing, and the results of the census are really going to drive this fact home for a lot of folks who don’t realize how diverse the U.S. population has become over the past decade. Multiculturalism is the topic for today’s column, but rather than writing what I think it means, I decided to seek the assistance of my wife, Lorea Canales, a Mexican journalist and writer. She just penned a piece on what “Mexicaness” means to her for the Web site of a very good friend of ours, New York City restaurateur Zarela Martinez.

Top Advertising Agencies and Brand Marketers express optimism on the State of the Industry.

Datran Media released the results of its fourth annual 2010 Marketing Survey of online marketing professionals. This survey broadly measures the marketing and budgeting priorities of digital marketers over the next year. The primary focus of the survey is to uncover industry perceptions regarding distinct marketing channels and to identify key drivers of the online marketing industry.

Meet the Frugalista.

There’s a new breed of mom, and she’s here to stay.

She’s a savvy, price-comparison shopper who uses technology, offline media and, most of all, her peers to stretch her buying dollar. She was once only a mom on a budget but the recent shift in economic climate generated a conversion of moms from disposable income queens to coupon divas.

ViVA Partnership Shopper Marketing delivering ‘Moment of Truth’.

Research reveals that seventy-three percent of consumer product goods manufacturers and 86 percent of retailers place shopper marketing at the top of the list for marketing efforts that deliver meaningful return on investment—but are marketers doing this well in multi-cultural markets?

U.S. Birth Rate decline linked to Recession.

Birth rates in the United States began to decline in 2008 after rising to their highest level in two decades, and the decrease appears to be linked to the recession, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of state fertility and economic data.

Nielsen launches TV Rating in Puerto Rico.

The Nielsen Company launched television audience measurement in Puerto Rico on April 1.

TV ratings in Puerto Rico are being collected from a sample of 500 homes chosen through Nielsen’s rigorous random area probability sampling techniques to accurately represent all demographics and regions of the island of Puerto Rico.

The American Dream is Alive and Thriving for Talented Latino Creatives.

Recession? Depression? Employment regression?…It’s time for a confession…The “American Dream” has not turned into a nightmare for everyone. For talented Latino Advertising Creatives it should be “dulces sueños” all around. Eduardo Dehesa-Conde / SVP, Group Creative Director, Multicultural, Draftfcb.

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