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Emotional Loyalty in 2025: How to Win Lasting Customer Trust
Loyalty is not what it used to be. Remember when “buy nine, get the tenth free” was a great way to generate customer loyalty? Those days are gone. In 2025, transactional loyalty programs are beginning to look like dinosaurs—impressive at the time, but simply not built to last. The “loyalty programs” that are offered to…
Inbox to Income: How Direct Marketing Is Powering Today’s Boldest Entrepreneurs
In a world captivated by bright shiny objects, social media campaigns, and viral videos, direct marketing is the unsung hero in the entrepreneurial identity space. From bootstrapped firms to million-dollar one-person shops, the powerful ability to connect directly to customers in their inbox, DM, or even mailbox is now a superpower. After all, this is…
An In-house Marketing Agency: Broke Pepsi but Made Duolingo
An in-house marketing agency is the brand’s own creative and media operation sitting inside the company, serving one client only: the business. External agencies bring cross-category perspective and scale. In-house teams trade that breadth for deeper brand intimacy, faster turns, and tighter data control. While we compare both, neither model is a religion. It is…
10 AEO Tips for Millennial Marketers to Win Attention
Google is changing the gears right now. Yes, and we are talking about AEO (Answer Engine Optimization). It is imperative that we must share the best AEO tips with each-other. So, let’s start. Welcome to the world where Google doesn’t just want your clicks, it wants your vibes. That’s right, Answer Engine Optimization (aka AEO)…
Legacy Media vs Digital Media in the Battle of the Attention Economy
There’s a quiet tug-of-war happening every second your screen is on—and no, it’s not between streaming apps and social feeds. It’s between legacy media and digital media, both desperately scrambling for a currency we barely realize we’re spending: attention. In this world of endless scrolling, skipping, swiping, and streaming, attention is the commodity. But it’s…
Why AI Slop is the Internet’s Newest Threat to Sanity
AI slop has become a common phrase and a dominator in Internet culture. Wherever you scroll, you will see nonsense AI imagery that makes you feel repulsive or stupefied. A cat wearing a strawberry diaper roams around with a big-muscled Alpha cat narrating a story that doesn’t make sense but makes you see it through…
GTA 6 Trailer Dropped ‘Again’ but Audience is Overwhelmed
Rockstar has re‑released the GTA 6 trailer, this time alongside the official delay to May 26, 2026. Yet with only two teasers in nearly two years of hype, fans are oscillating between awe and exhaustion. Audience has been anticipated since 2013, but Rockstar officially announced it in 2022, with a teaser finally dropping in late 2023.…
Growth Marketing 101: Why Testing and Tweaking Is the Key to Success
Ever wondered how some brands seem to go viral overnight while others burn through massive budgets without making a dent? The difference isn’t luck or timing—it’s strategy. And the game-changer here is something called growth marketing. Unlike traditional marketing, growth marketing isn’t about big splashes—it’s about smart moves. At its core lies a powerful, almost…
Around-the-Clock Global Marketing: 7 Strategies to Manage Teams Across Time Zones
You wake up to 63 Slack messages—half in languages you don’t speak, all marked “urgent.” Your designer’s waiting for feedback, you missed overnight. Your strategist just spotted a trend in one market that’s already old news in another. If this sounds familiar, you’re living the reality of global marketing, where campaigns don’t sleep, and neither…
The Multiplier Effect in Marketing where Brand and Demand Work in Harmony
For too long, marketing teams have operated under a false dichotomy and avoided the multiplier effect in marketing. The false dichotomy creates a distinction between brand building and demand generation. CMOs approach both subjects as they are fundamentally different, even competing, priorities. In many organizations, brand marketing is seen as long-term and intangible, while demand…
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