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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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Brands Pouring On Personalization

When it comes to branding for Millennials, the unexpected has become the expected. And the beverage industry is really pouring it on.

We Built this City on Co-Creation

For an increasing number of major cities, co-creation has gone international as they collaborate with one another to address wide-ranging issues from traffic to to housing to the arts.

The Halfway Point of 2015

If you’re anything like us, you may be asking yourself at this very moment, “How on Earth is summer – not to mention, 2015 – already half over?”

How Not to Execute an Email Campaign

Email is one of many arrows that marketers use to target consumers, yet if your shot is executed poorly, an arrow can do more harm than just simply missing its mark.

Who Makes A Good Customer?

In an industry filled with far too many strained agency/client relationships, we’ve never referred to our customers as “clients.”

Branding Magazine Features AE Marketing Group’s Expertise in Non-Profit Branding.

Branding Magazine features AE Marketing Group’s expertise in Non-Profit Branding. The Branding Round Table host, Chuck Kent, sits down with AE Marketing Group CEO, Brian Walker and UCAN CEO Emeritus Tom Vanden Berk to get a close up look at non-profit branding. They discuss the internal and external benefits to rebranding a 100 year old

Don’t Miss the ‘Shyp’ On Co-Creation

When it comes to co-creation, sometimes your brand plans on it – and sometimes, you just have to have the sense to recognize co-creation when it organically pops up along the way.

Goldman Sachs Names AE Marketing Group a 10,000 Small Business

With 33 sites across the United States and United Kingdom, 10,000 Small Businesses has served over 8,000 small business owners.

AE Marketing Group Named a Goldman Sachs 10K Small Biz

Coming off National Small Business Week, we are thrilled to announce that AE Marketing Group has been selected a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business.

Co-Creation Knows No Age

The British supermarket chain Waitrose recently redesigned the label of its Brown Sauce based upon the feedback of a 7-year-old boy.

Domino’s Sharing the Dough with Co-Creation

Through multiple order pathways, including wearable technology and now co-creation, Domino's is cooking up a whole new pizza experience and leaving the competition behind.

Co-Creation is a hit for Pepsi & Fans

Pepsi now controls advertising and promotion for all four major North American professional sports leagues: NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL.

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