Our clients usually have reliable resources for tracking key indicators like sales reports, store traffic, leads, online analytics, surveys and research benchmarks. But a great marketing plan requires much more. They ask Ramey to help develop long-term marketing strategy by assessing the competition, industry dynamics and consumer insights. One of the valuable techniques we use […]
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YouTube is the second-largest search engine in the world with 1 billion unique monthly visitors, viewing 6 billion hours of video every month. Every minute of the day, there are 100 additional hours of fresh content being uploaded. And the biggest takeaway from this little peek into YouTube? It attracts nearly half of all internet […]
In today’s marketing world of confined budgets, the costly option of consumer ethnography research may seem a luxury of more prosperous times. However, Ramey has recently conducted two projects in which ethnography provided invaluable insights that averted costly missteps and perhaps disastrous results. Arguably, the “costly” ethnography investment could actually generate a return on investment […]
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After bingeing on NBC’s fall show, The Blacklist, it occurred to me there are very real similarities between the way marketers and criminal detectives work. The show’s heroine, Liz Keen (who, btw, is most likely the secret daughter of James Spader’s character Red Reddington), responsibility as an FBI profiler is to create a criminal’s backstory […]
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Ramey client BankPlus partnered with Archie and Eli Manning for its Mississippi-based marketing efforts. We Americans love our celebrities – entertainment, sports, business – whatever their field of fame, we love to watch and connect with high-profile personalities. Which makes it easy to see why companies love turning to celebrity partners to secure recognition, credibility […]
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If you’re in an industry – such as the financial services industry – that offers countless products and services to the broadest imaginable group of consumers, it’s easy to want to be the go-to source for all things to all people. With all that opportunity for sales out there, it’s not so easy to intentionally […]
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How a Cohesive Brand Brought Together an Organization Deep and Wide Looking back at a project whose lessons are still relevant today Financial service companies are by their very nature complex. Even a small community bank that built a business over many years on bread-and-butter consumer deposits may today offer private banking, commercial lending, and […]
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This year’s Super Bowl commercials seemed like a competition of who could produce the most tears. Problem is, I don’t like to cry when I’m watching large helmeted men bash each other. Here are my top 10 spots and 2 bottom feeders. Top 10 [The Good] 1. Fiat 500X [Crossover Viagra] – Funniest […]
Utilizing Snapchat just might be the catalyst your brand needs. New tools, different types of media and technological advancements keep the marketing and advertising world on its toes; but if you’re only trying to keep up, then you are already behind. Snapchat is a photo and video-messaging app that allows users to send content that […]
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Everyone can agree that the past several years have been extremely difficult. Recently, I’ve been reflecting on something that can take a significant hit during a tough economy: passion. After all, when an economy gets lean, you can find yourself handling new responsibilities, doing less or – in some cases – doing twice as much, […]
