Archive for the ‘Content Marketing/Writing’ Category

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Cadence Turpin

Getting Savvy on #GivingTuesday

On Cyber Monday, deals become deals with all the rest, and the only competition method is a lowered price tag. But now we have #GivingTuesday with the fairest price tag of them all: the one that gives back.

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Bobby Stark

Coca-Cola is a Media Company

If you question whether brand marketing strategies are based on becoming media companies, the new Coke website has the answer.

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Nancy Henderson

Accentuate the Positive

Two Facebook posts I made recently taught me a lesson.

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Bobby Stark

Red Bull: The Greatest Marketer of Our Generation

We've declared today "Red Bull Day" at Parthenon Publishing because Red Bull is the greatest marketer of our generation.

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Cadence Turpin

Know Your Audience

The Great Hamburger vs. Hotdog Paper-Folding Debate of 2012. Are your references relevant?

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Nancy Henderson

Frankenquote Monsters

Words are beautiful things. You shouldn't be afraid of them.

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Bobby Stark

Stop Crazy Capitalization

On a recent flight on my favorite airline, I picked up a copy of Southwest's in-flight magazine, Spirit. It is a great magazine, with a wonderful balance of small nuggets of information, entertaining stories and aspirational features about travel destinations. But there is one part of the magazine that I dislike with a passion: the CEO letter from Gary Kelly.

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Candace Price

Seize the Olympic Marketing Competition

Many marketers are utilizing Olympic hype in their advertising campaigns, no matter what they are trying to sell. I've seen go for the gold furniture sales, summer games trivia competitions and athletes in paper towel commercials. Should you jump on the Olympics bandwagon?

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Nicole Provonchee

Socially Savvy: Parthenon’s Winning Tips

If you know someone who works for Parthenon, you have undoubtedly heard the good news: we were crowned the small business champions in the Nashville Business Journal's Social Madness competition. Here is how we did it...

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Picture This: Connecting Photogs With Bootleggers

Oh, for the days when attaching artwork to a blog simply meant pinging around the Internet, running searches and eventually snagging a suitable image and dropping it into place. You can still do that, but now you’re much more likely to get into trouble if that artwork is copyrighted and you haven't asked for permission — or paid the photographer/artist.

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