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Clio Names Google 2013 Advertiser of the Year | Adweek

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Here’s The Future of Advertising, According To Google – Forbes

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Understanding Customers Is Everyone’s Job – Brad Power – Harvard Business Review

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Brand Loyalty Slides as Retailers Fight to Keep Customers Tuned In--brandchannel.com.

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Interbrand – Best Retail Brands 2013

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Interbrand - Creating and managing brand value | Global Branding Consultancy

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International – Branding is key in consumer product growth (SETimes.com)

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Will a ‘Facebook phone’ help women ‘lean in’? – Ideas@Innovations – The Washington Post

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Catalina Pushing Personalized Mobile Advertising For CPG Brands | Mobile Marketing Watch

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Grocery stores use smartphone deals to spur sales – CSMonitor.com

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Experian Marketing Services Shares the Best Time to Send Emails | Adweek

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Five Tips for Boosting CPG Digital Campaign Performance – Adotas.com

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Catalina Marketing Launches BuyerVision Mobile, Pushing Personalized Mobile Advertising For CPG Brands | Mobile Marketing Watch

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Guess Who's Planning to Spend Big in Mobile: CPG Advertisers | Digital - Advertising Age

“Historically, advertisers in the consumer packaged-goods category have been late adopters in digital marketing mediums, investing little.” Read more.

Guess Who's Planning to Spend Big in Mobile: CPG Advertisers | Digital - Advertising Age

“Historically, advertisers in the consumer packaged-goods category have been late adopters in digital marketing mediums, investing little.” Read more.

5 Surprising Marketing Trends for 2013 - Forbes

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Black Packaging Is the Supermarket Style for Pantene, L'Oréal and Beck's Sapphire - WSJ.com

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Black Packaging Is the Supermarket Style for Pantene, L'Oréal and Beck's Sapphire - WSJ.com

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The Razor’s Edge Between Creepy and Cool - eclecticallysampling.com

Excellent reading from Larry Burns, Founder, StartSampling.

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How Vitamins Can Improve Your Stores Health | Refresh

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Starbucks Pushes 'Snow Day' on Facebook, Twitter | Adweek

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Starbucks Pushes 'Snow Day' on Facebook, Twitter | Adweek

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Procter & Gamble launches website to help open innovation - Business Courier

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Coupon Facts Report Indicates Marketers Continue Steady Use Of Coupons:

“Additionally, the BIGinsight Monthly Consumer Survey in December 2012 found that 53.7% of consumers continued to focus more on needs than wants while shopping.”

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Google Digital Coupons date back to 2003.

Google has entered the digital coupon market. Has the game changed or is Google just taking another swipe at a highly competitive and deeply saturated consumer market place? See Search Engine Watch Story.

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Mondelez Taps Nine Tech Startups For Big New Mobile Program | Digital - Advertising Age

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Creativity Best of 2012: P&G’s Emotional Olympics Film and More | Creativity Pick of the Day – Advertising Age

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Creativity Best of 2012: P&G's Emotional Olympics Film and More | Creativity Pick of the Day – Advertising Age

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Progressive Grocer: "Retail Space Study Finds Consumables Growth at Expense of Hardlines"

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Progressive Grocer: "Retail Space Study Finds Consumables Growth at Expense of Hardlines"

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Forbes: Why Are Firms Failing To Transform Marketing?

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MediaPost Publications CPG Companies: Turning Video Into Value 11/15/2012

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AdAge.com: Target, Neiman Marcus Advertising Embeded into the Script.

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Business Standard: The Ideal Business Assortment may be Less Choices to Consumers.

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USDA Reports Store Brands Priced 23% Less than National Brands.

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Inc.com “Made in America” has Brand Power.

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AdWeek - iPhone 5's Passbook versus Google Wallet in CPG Marketing

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AdWeek - iPhone 5's Passbook versus Google Wallet in CPG Marketing

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Is Innovation Waning at Procter & Gamble?

For decades, Procter & Gamble has spent more than any of its competitors on the development of new products.

Procter has even demonstrated its own innovative prowess in fighter brands, that is, marketing a budget-priced brand to fend off competition from store brands and at the same time selling a premium brand in the same

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Is Innovation Waning at Procter & Gamble?

For decades, Procter & Gamble has spent more than any of its competitors on the development of new products.

Procter has even demonstrated its own innovative prowess in fighter brands, that is, marketing a budget-priced brand to fend off competition from store brands and at the same time selling a premium brand in the same

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Campbell Celebrates Warhol Pop Culture Art With Commemorative Cans

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Winning CPGs outperform peers in key areas, report finds.

Advanced analysis in pricing, merchandising, assortment, and customer targeting enable CPG retailers to outperform peers.

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Direct Mail Giant Valassis to get Volume Discounts -- Newspapers are not Happy.

The U.S. Postal Service has worked out a volume agreement with direct-mail giant Valassis. According to AdAge, the discounts, which commit Valassis to a million additional pieces of mail, ”stunned” newspapers.

This deal is not the best news for Newspapers, which have also had their challenges with the electronic media in recent

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Browser Market Share

BROWSER MARKET SHARE

W3Schools.com tracks browser popularity or market share. Periodically I check to see how the usage stacks up. Firefox and Chrome are very popular, because they work and because they offer a lot of options to web developers. Developers can not ignore Internet Explorer though, because it still has a

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AdAge: Meet the Man Behind Nike's Neon-Shoe Ambush

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Nike scored with major product placement with the famous Michael Johnson gold track shoe. With another marketing stroke of genius, Nike put 400 Olympians in flouescent green shoes.

 

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AdAge: Meet the Man Behind Nike's Neon-Shoe Ambush

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Nike scored with major product placement with the famous Michael Johnson gold track shoe. With another marketing stroke of genius, Nike put 400 Olympians in flouescent green shoes.

 

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Is Traditional Marketing Dead?

In a Harvard Business Review Blog Post, Bill Post writes that many people in traditional marketing roles “may not realize they’re operating within a dead paradigm. But they are. The evidence is clear.”

Bill Post goes on to explain what is working and the new methods consumers are using to make decisions.

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Headlines in Business, Advertising, and Technology

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Forbes:” Cheryl Connor discusses the ”five sure signs a start up will survive.”

AdAge:” ”Curt Hank writes about the six ad agency lessons from a decade of ups and downs.”

Technorati:” Adi Gaskell reports that “YouTube

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Grocery Industry Jobs, Ego vs Innovation, Morale + Profits, and Google's $200 Tablet

SeeWhoIsHiring.com: 10, 400 Grocery Industry Jobs

Open Forum: Ego vs Innovation

Fast Company: Morale and Profits–they are connected.

Technorati: Google’s $200 tablet

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Grocery Industry Jobs, Ego vs Innovation, Morale + Profits, and Google's $200 Tablet

SeeWhoIsHiring.com: 10, 400 Grocery Industry Jobs

Open Forum: Ego vs Innovation

Fast Company: Morale and Profits–they are connected.

Technorati: Google’s $200 tablet

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General Mills and the Focus on Yogurt

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Marketing: It Really IS Brain Surgery! - Forbes

 

 

 

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What Grocers Need to Learn From 5 Year Olds | Viewpoints

 

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What Grocers Need to Learn From 5 Year Olds | Viewpoints

 

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What Grocers Need to Learn From 5 Year Olds | Viewpoints.

Coupon King Catalina Takes Plunge Into Digital Buying | News - Advertising Age

 

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Macho Market: Guy Shopping is Great for Supermarkets

According to this video report from MSNBC, men are less likely to compare prices and clip coupons and are more likely to make impulse purchases than women shoppers. What the report calls “The Macho Market,” men are excellent target customers for for supermarkets.

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How Sampling Can Boost Retailers' Sales | STORES.org

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How Sampling Can Boost Retailers' Sales | STORES.org

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Social Networking & CPG Take Center Stage at P&G - Business Exchange

Social Networking Takes Center Stage at P&G – Business Exchange.

Social Networking & CPG Take Center Stage at P&G - Business Exchange

Social Networking Takes Center Stage at P&G – Business Exchange.

Craft an attention-getting message: Harvard Business Review Management Tip of the Day | Business | TIME.com

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Hustle Like Jay-Z - Forbes

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Andy Ellwood had the good forturne to witness firsthand what a top performer does to stay on top when Andy was in the audience of a Jay-Z show hosted by American Express. Andy Ellwood’s conclusion is that no one hustles like Jay-Z to put on the best

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7 Tips for Marketing to Moms - Mashable.com

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“Mothers are the gateway to sales — women make 85% of purchasing decisions in a household, and often that women is a mom. ”

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“Mothers are the gateway to sales — women make 85% of purchasing decisions in a household, and often that women is a mom. ”

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100 Leading National Advertisers | Data Center: Marketers / Advertisers - Advertising Age

100 Leading National Advertisers is Ad Age’s annual ranking of the 100 largest U.S. advertising spenders.

This online version includes Marketer Trees, a database showing extensive and exclusive content—company profiles, brands, agency assignments, executives and estimated ad spending. Ad Age started the LNA report in 1956.

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100 Leading National Advertisers | Data Center: Marketers / Advertisers - Advertising Age

100 Leading National Advertisers is Ad Age’s annual ranking of the 100 largest U.S. advertising spenders.

This online version includes Marketer Trees, a database showing extensive and exclusive content—company profiles, brands, agency assignments, executives and estimated ad spending. Ad Age started the LNA report in 1956.

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The Pros And Cons Of Google+ For Small Business : Marketing :: American Express OPEN Forum

Reasons to use Google+

A bulk of the small businesses we spoke with said they feel Google+ is an important social platform because it was developed by Google, one of the Internet’s favorite brands and one of the most influential websites when it comes to site referrals. But

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Six Key Consumer Trends for 2012 and Beyond

“Leo Burnett Chicago has released its first study of people and behavior highlighting six key consumer trends expected to have a lasting effect on American brands and marketers in 2012 and beyond.

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Advertising Data Center Video Poster 2011

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Twitter Tests Self-Serve Platform With Advertisers | Adweek

As desktop software for creating direct mail, email, and advertising campaigns becomes more user friendly, it seems that the agency side could be on be end of that stick that is getting shorter. No?

Twitter Tests Self-Serve Platform With Advertisers | Adweek.

GoodWorks - Blogs & Columnists - Advertising Age

I mean really, doesn’t Ad Age have the most interesting layouts of anyone?

GoodWorks – Blogs & Columnists – Advertising Age.

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Jay Wren CPG Careers (Jay Wren Associates) is a consumer packaged goods recruiting firm that can help you find career solutions in the CPG industry. The firm also provides daily updates on trends that affect

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The Popularity Issue: - BusinessWeek

Popularity is not a state of grace. In business, it is treasure hard-won on the battlefields of product development and marketing, then leveraged or squandered or stolen back. Most of the products and ideas showcased here—the stuff we buy, sell, and otherwise consume the most—owe

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Google: Why Marketers Need to Look Good on Mobile Now | Adweek

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Google: Why Marketers Need to Look Good on Mobile Now | Adweek

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MediaPost Publications Everyday Savers: Not Extreme, But 'Forever Frugal' 11/01/2011

While extreme couponing may be more of a reality-TV event than reality, coupon usage continues to be one of the most beloved acts of the American consumer, with 81% of shoppers now a fan. That’s the fifth consecutive year of gains, reports Valassis, which recently presented

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Innovative Packaging

“SC Johnson introduced a version of its popular Windex window cleaner earlier this year that’s sold in a “snip ‘n’ pour” pouch, above left, so customers can refill old bottles with a concentrated Windex formula diluted with water from the tap…Procter & Gamble is scheduled to introduce Tide Pods, a “compacted”

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How Path Intelligence Uses Geolocation To Track Customer Behavior (Technology) American Express OPEN Forum

American Express Open Forum: The cell-phone to satellite tracking technology helps retailers plan store locations and target their marketing plan. “…Path Intelligence uses geolocation to track customer behavior”

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Data Points: Making the Brand | Adweek

Data Points: Making the Brand | Adweek

“The challenges, expectations, and opportunities facing marketers–and clients–in an evolving branding world.”

 

 

Data Points: Making the Brand | Adweek

Data Points: Making the Brand | Adweek

“The challenges, expectations, and opportunities facing marketers–and clients–in an evolving branding world.”

 

 

FreeIndustryLinks October 15, 2011

FREEINDUSTRYLINKS The CPG Newsletter

Marketing/Shopper Trends

MarketingDaily Survey indicates that online coupon users spend more money

BizReport: CPG brands find online ads pushing in-store purchases

Interbrand Best Global Green Brands and Best Retail Brands

Social Media/Business Trends

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Personalized, Mobile, and Highly Skippable – Google Executives Discuss the Future of Digital Ads | Adweek

Google Executives Discuss the Future of Digital Ads | Adweek.

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AdAge Ten best ads to come out of Apple under Steve Jobs

NY Times Local TV Newscasts Are Expanding

Harvard Business Review Has the economy changed innovation?

US News and World Report The 50 Best Careers

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