Creative Solutions for Business and Marketing
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Gamma Notes is a small business blog and startup marketing blog that collects the thoughts, ideas, and tips generated in the exercises and experiments of 21st century marketing practice.
It took me a while to process the phrase brand renewal. The first time it sunk in was sometime a number of years ago. An owner at one of my favorite local restaurants used the term while discussing their new menu and signage. I had noticed and asked what was behind their rebranding strategy (yes, my […]
Let’s say you call a florist, and you have to leave a voicemail. Or, maybe you send an email. You wait for a reply. Nothing. Frustrating, isn’t it? You’ve probably been there before. It’s difficult to imagine someone being in business and letting inquiries go unanswered or ignoring opportunities to engage. It’s also hard to […]
Some of the insights in the Gamma Notes post on using customer profiles and knowing your audience might seem obvious. But, you’d be surprised how often things like internal protocol or our own personal preferences impact decisions. In fact, a little (big) something called confirmation bias can impact something as simple as your decision to continue […]
Nowadays, just about any marketing or communications department looks something like the chart pictured here. Some of the titles may get swapped around or the term marketing gets swapped out for communications if you’re a nonprofit, but the marketing department structure itself is pretty much the same. The boxes at the bottom can be a […]
“No phone calls?” I asked, surprised. “Maybe two a day,” my friend responded. “But you’ve got trucks all over town, driving around with the phone number plastered on them.” “People don’t want to talk with a human being – they want to type everything.” She added, jokingly, “Don’t you know that?” I agreed half-heartedly. I certainly […]
