by Ted Rubin | Sep 1, 2016 | Featured, Marketing, Social Media/Marketing
Must-have brands. Ooh, just the the thought of having one. Enough to make a grown CEO cry. MUST-HAVE BRANDS. A SHORT HISTORY. Old Spice. Oreo. GEICO. Each of these brands is a household name, the goal and hope of nearly every company or its CEO. So how the heck does a...
by Ted Rubin | Aug 25, 2016 | Featured, Marketing, Social Media/Marketing
If there’s one marketing mantra that will always be true for businesses, it’s “Know Your Customer.” Whether you sell shoes, dry cleaning services, computer software or multi-million-dollar widgets, that’s the one maxim that will never change, no matter what happens to...
by Ted Rubin | Aug 22, 2016 | Featured, Marketing, Social Media/Marketing
Anyone who knows me knows I am all about the power of relationships. Every once in a while, something unexpected happens that seems almost too good to be true. So two months and 53,000 YouTube views ago, I had no idea something this unpredictable would happen…. Over...
by Ted Rubin | Aug 14, 2016 | Featured, Marketing, Social Media/Marketing
Things ARE changing. Traditional advertising certainly isn’t extinct, but there is simply too much noise out there, and people are sick of it. They’re shutting out the blast advertising that has crept into every aspect of their lives and centering in on the things...
by Ted Rubin | Jan 25, 2016 | Featured, Marketing, Social Media/Marketing
The “and so it goes” phenomenon of going back to school that was so prevalent when school started again this year reminded me of how important milestones are to the people experiencing them, and why we need to cultivate empathy in all of our relationships (especially...