http://www.erinwiles.com/site Erin M. Wiles - Marketing Professional Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:06:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last month I was attacked and bombarded by ads from Cars4Causes (C4C).  In my blog reader, C4C ads.  On websites, C4C ads.  I finally reached a breaking point when I came across a website where TWO C4C ads appeared side by side!  It still baffles me why I was such ... http://www.erinwiles.com/site/2010/07/02/3-sem-lessons-cars4causes-missed/ For those who aren't tweeters, likers, or blog readers, check out a monthly marketing brief delivered directly to your email inbox!  Marketing Wiles is a monthly newsletter highlighting marketing mavens who think out of the box and are social media rock stars! This newsletter also highlights any monthly marketing events taking ... http://www.erinwiles.com/site/2010/06/21/introducing-marketing-wiles/ I recently came across a blog with a graphic depiction of the different Schools of Marketing.  Marketing is an amazing field that is in constant motion.  Think fifty years ago?  TV and radio was King and telemarketing was considered cutting edge.  Fast forward to today and there are dozens of ... http://www.erinwiles.com/site/2010/06/16/marketing-alma-mater/ If you have ever attended a marketing class then you are surely familiar with the four P’s of the Marketing mix: Product, Price, Promotion, and Place.  The four P’s are used to appeal to your target market and ultimately get them to purchase your product or service.  But how can ... http://www.erinwiles.com/site/2010/06/08/iphone-app-marketing-mix/ Are Memphis Marketers up to the Adwords Challenge? In my last post I discussed an idea I used to showcase my own personal brand using Google Adwords.  This got the wheels in my brain turning on a great guerrilla marketing initiative that businesses could apply to their own branding campaigns to ... http://www.erinwiles.com/site/2010/05/22/google-adwords-fun-ii/ Marketing is supposed to be fun.  PERIOD. Marketers by nature are all a little zany, but I can’t help but notice how some of us tend to get so caught up with work that we forget to add a little pizazz to our day-to-day projects.  That is why I have ... http://www.erinwiles.com/site/2010/05/21/google-adwords-fun-i/