Posts Tagged ‘marketing strategies’

Note to CMO: Of Tazers, Teens and Tantrums

Tweet Dear CMO: Can it be that only a short week ago, the world only just heard the now ubiquitous phrase, “Don’t Taze Me, Bro”? How time flies. The YouTubization of American culture ensures that any and every act committed in public will be captured on a cell phone camera or a camcorder and posted […]


Note to CMO: Thin Ice and Killing Words

TweetDear CMO: Ready for a quiz? Pick a brand at random. Say its tag line out loud. Now, ask yourself whether any of your chosen brand’s competitors could walk up to the proverbial microphone and deliver that same tag line with just as much confidence and justification as your brand X did. Could they? Probably. […]


Note to CMO: iApologize

Tweet Dear CMO: What could you have done? Let’s see. You launched your product to great fanfare 10 weeks ago. And now – 10 weeks later – you have a lifetime’s worth of inventory gracing your warehouse shelves. What should you do? 1. Drop the price by $200 roughly two months after your launch, then […]


Note to CMO: Writing “Killing Giants”

TweetDear CMO: We had a great series of conversations on how smaller companies or lesser brands can take out the giants in their industries a few months ago. It began as a one-off conversation which I named, “part one,” in a rather flip manner. In all honesty, there wasn’t a “part two” in mind at […]


Note to CMO: Advantage Makers

Tweet Dear CMO: We’ve spoken a lot about influence over the past few months — even the past few days, to be honest — so I’m glad to point you to a new ‘must read’ coming out on August 27th from an old friend, advisor and corporate guru, Steven Feinberg, entitled, “The Advantage-Makers: How Exceptional […]