Online Will Influence 53% of U.S. Retail Sales by 2014

By Alan Epstein
Are you ready to take advantage?
In a new report issued this week, Forrester Research predicts that online retail sales will grow 10% per year for the next five years. Nothing earth shattering there. But get this, according to Forrester… “the web will influence 53% of U.S. retail sales by 2014”, meaning that products [...]

Filed under: Brand Strategy, Experiential Branding, Integration, Social Media, Strategic Planning, Uncategorized on March 18th, 2010 | 37 Comments »

And You Thought You’d Never Make the Cover of Time Magazine

by Geoff Pickering
In late October of 2006, Adamson put a stake in the ground and decided our service offerings were not enough to sustain our company for long-term success. Put simply, we needed to change, or run the risk of perishing. Roughly one month later, on December 13, 2006, Time Magazine announced its Person of [...]

Filed under: Brand Management, Brand Strategy, Channel Management, Experiential Branding, Integration, Strategic Planning on January 28th, 2010 | No Comments »

WTF? Online Ads Asked to Adopt Off-line Metrics. Really! What the duece?

I read the following article: Brand Comfort: Online Ads Asked to Adopt Off-line Metrics this morning. I had to write a response to this as I couldn’t believe what I read. This response is also listed as a comment at the end of the article as I’m interested in hearing more from the keynote speaker, Young-Bean Song, Senior Director at the Microsoft Advertising Institute.

Filed under: Channel Management, Integration, Strategic Planning on January 28th, 2010 | No Comments »