Spectre, the 24th Bond movie, is great. Its International box office takings are setting records and are already heading into the stratosphere. For marketers the interesting part is just how market-oriented Spectre’s director, Sam Mendes, proved to be in the creation of his latest Bond installment.
It’s always been a bumpy ride for Harley Davidson, America’s largest motorcycle manufacturer.
In the U.K. the 60th anniversary of the first British TV ad is encouraging most marketers to look in the wrong direction: backwards. TV ads remain the great tool of modern marketing and marketers there and in the U.S. would be crazy to forget it.
At the end of my class on brand management each term my MBA students rate the subject on various attributes. Among them is the degree to which the class had a “strong theoretical basis”. It is always my weakest score because I do not rely on very much published academic research to build the course content. Some decent case studies and a few readings from Harvard Business Review more than suffice.
There are two ways to come up with a marketing budget. There is the foolish way and there is the strategic way.
