Marketing & PR

The Shopping Shortcuts in Your Brain

Marketers are using decoy products as a method to make core products more attractive.

June 2009

A Buddy System for Brands

A Buddy System for Brands

Branding consultant Dean Adams explains how to make corporate brands work with strategic brands.

March 2009

Campbell Mithun

Campbell Mithun's Playbook for the Ad Bowl

The Minneapolis ad agency has been produced its fourth Super Bowl ad for client H&R Block.

March 2009

John Stucker and Devon Thomas Treadwell

Name That Brand

Pollywog picks the best (and worst) brand names of 2008.

January 2009

Steve Moss, Imation

Brand Mission

Changing Imation into a brand-centric company took a massive marketing effort.

December 2008

Carmichael Lynch's Harley Campaign

New Resonance

Carmichael Lynch’s new Harley-Davidson ad campaign looks to Americans’ reslove.

November 2008

Barrie D'Rozario Murphy

Ad Age to Airlines: "Don't Advertise"

Minneapolis’s Barrie D'Rozario Murphy gives beleaguered United Airlines a spot of advertising brilliance.

October 2008

Dave Matthews

From Cause to Effect Marketing

MusicMatters, a Minneapolis marketing firm, has pioneered techniques and coined a phrase: effect marketing.

October 2008

Travelers' red umbrella

"A Legitimate Icon"

Bringing back Travelers' big red icon.

June 2008

Best Brand Names of 2007

Two top local branding experts share their favorite brand names of 2007.

February 2008

Mahindra Group truck

Mahindra's Fast Horse

The first Indian-made vehicles will be sold in the U.S. in 2009—and Fast Horse, the Minneapolis-based integrated marketing firm, will support the launch.

January 2008

Socially Responsible Branding

Socially Responsible Branding

How do you choose a philanthropy that helps both its recipients and your brand?

January 2008

Rethinking Media Relations

Rethinking Media Relations

How to reach key audiences with public-relations strategies that have long-term impact.

November 2007

Discounted Prices, Free Association

Discounted Prices, Free Association

Why some retailers really ought to raise the roof.

September 2007

Lisa Seward

"You're In Control Now"

And that’s bad news for marketers, unless they understand how to make the medium the message and vice versa.

July 2007

Pilar Gerasimo

A Healthy Brand

Experience Life has matured beyond its role as membership magazine of Life Time Fitness and established a strong brand in the intensely competitive health and fitness marketplace.

April 2007

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