COMPOUND COMPLEXITY… As if recession wasn’t enough, the media world is upside down

Not only is the on-going recession killing small businesses, but revolutionary changes in the media world, brought on by the iPad and mobile media have marketers large and small reeling. What to do? Among Marketing Speakers, Jim Ackerman tells the truth… and what you can do about it. As a marketing coach, his clients prove his principles… The principles this marketing guru delivers in this piece.

Marketing Speaker Says Uncertainty Causes Uncertainty

Marketing and Advertising Speaker, Jim Ackerman revisits an article he wrote in August of ‘09, bemoaning the uncertainty imposed on the marketplace by political paralysis. If you’re a business person looking to grow your business, these are very tough times, and recent developements haven’t helped. There is still far too much uncertainty in the marketplace to pull us out of the recession.

Advertising is a messy, almost futile endeavor

A client called me from a medium-size Canadian town of about 120,000. The client is in charge of marketing for a jewelry store. One of about five competing stores within the geographic area of dominant influence of this town.
The boss had entered into an agreement to do some television advertising and they said they wanted [...]

Recession/Depression Prescription

I recorded this video a year ago. Revisiting it today, I was surprised at my own profundity. If you haven’t seen this, you really should take a look. If you have seen it, it bears watching again. It’s a good prescription for what you can do to save yourself from today’s economy.
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The Paralysis of Politics

It is with considerable trepidation that I approach this post.
I’m a marketing expert. I help people sell stuff. I help them advertise more effectively and efficiently. I help them get more bang for their marketing buck. I’m all about testing and tracking, chasing cost per lead, cost per sale, profit per sale.
I don’t have a [...]

Obama Did What?

Oh, this is classic! I quote the May 21, 2009 headline from Adverting Age magazine… “Obama Halves Chrysler’s Planned Marketing Budget.”
The article goes on to say, in part,
“DETROIT (AdAge.com) — Chrysler wanted to spend $134 million in advertising over the nine weeks it’s expected to be in bankruptcy — the U.S. Treasury’s auto-industry task force [...]