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On the AE Marketing Group blog, you’ll find helpful and actionable insight on strategy, media, technology, marketing, customer experience, co-creation, employee advocacy, entrepreneurship, and more.

 

In addition to our written blog features, we also produce the award-winning Brand Lab Series Podcast and the Marketing Minute video series.

Why Marketing is a Dirty Word

For most of my career, I’ve had the ear of the c-suite.  Our conversations cover a range of business language, but one word has always stood out.  That word is “marketing” and all too often, it is considered dirty.

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What Movie Sequels Teach Us About Content Marketing

It’s a common complaint among filmgoers today that Hollywood has no new ideas, and as a result everything in theaters is now either a remake or a sequel.

So, What the Heck is Co-Creation?

By uniting consumers and employees, co-creation embodies genuine engagement and partnership, which is something that so many brands talk about, but so few actually achieve.

What Can Hollywood Teach Brands About Content Marketing?

In honor of the start of Oscar season, our team has been busy thinking about the valuable lessons about content marketing that brands can learn from the creative folks out in Hollywood.

1871, the Largest Business and Technology Incubator in North America, Names AE Marketing Group a Member Company.

AE Marketing Group is excited to announce our official move this week into 1871 Chicago, the city’s premier business tech incubator located inside the famed Merchandise Mart.

7 Truths to Running a Multi-Million Dollar Business

In today’s hyper-digital world, it pays to take an occasional pause and assess how far you’ve come in whatever business or personal journey you’ve embarked upon.

The 1 Thing You Should Be Doing to Improve CX Right Now

To truly improve customer experience, there’s one thing that the vast majority of brands aren’t doing, which not coincidentally is also the one thing that they should.

For Delta, Co-Creation is Child’s Play

We've learned that the spark for co-creation can also come from anywhere, so long as brands are open to a wide array of possibilities and ideas.

There’s More to Marketing Than Millennials

The younger generation, they’ll remind you, is increasingly more interested in acquiring experiences than acquiring things.

The Solution to Utah’s ‘Drinking’ Problem

Home to almost 2 million Mormons – more than half its population – the Beehive State is known much more for its teetotalers than its bourbon aficionados and oenophiles.

You Don’t Know Me, But I’m Amazing

We know that companies and individuals need revenue to grow their business and that people need jobs. But what we don’t understand is why so many inquiries lack basic business fundamentals.

So, You Think You’re an Expert?

Anyone today with a mobile device stuffed inside his or her pocket is a critic, an author, a photographer, a reporter and a whole lot more.

Playing the Co-Creation Name Game with Millennials

Attorney Steve Baird explained in his blog how his Millennial daughter’s passion for coffee has led her to design Starbucks logo T-shirts that she wears like a free traveling human billboard.

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