Why do so many big companies lack marketing basics?

Even the biggest companies seem to be overlooking the marketing basics some times as evidenced by these high profile product failures.
2019: The Most Human Year Because It Must Be

The idea that marketing must become more human seems trite at this point. But 2019 will be the most human year because the customers are demanding it.
Creating Points of Differentiation in Marketing

Every entrepreneur is told that when they think about starting a company, they need to find a strong USP, or unique points of differentiation. Here’s how to do it.
Start Your Marketing Strategy Revamp With These 11 Questions

By Brooke B. Sellas, {grow} Contributing Columnist At least once a year, many marketers aim for a marketing strategy revamp. This is a good best practice. It doesn’t matter how successful your year was — a little reflection and some tweaks will set you up for another showcase year. Here are the 11 areas I […]
What’s the difference between influencer marketing and word of mouth marketing?

The post explored the difference between influencer marketing and word of mouth marketing and examines how the strategies are blurring.
3 Examples that Prove the Power of Brand Storytelling

Ekaterina Walter shares three fascinating examples that showcases the power of brand storytelling with the statistics to support it.
Find the Branding Hook that Others Sing Back to You

John Espirian shares his experience finding his branding hook after a conversation with Mark, which led to being included in the book “KNOWN.”
Where are all the social networks?

Industry leaders once predicted many niche social networks that eventually eat away at Facebook’s dominance Why did that never happen?
Three lessons all new businesses can learn from the Google+ failure

Another Google failure could have been avoided. Google+ was killed from the company’s arrogance and lack of a meaningful marketing strategy.
Marketing success means being invited to the island

Marketing success comes from different strategies now that customers have self-selected and become member of like-minded islands.