3 ways to effectively balance digital tools with the food and service your customers love Until recently, restaurants operated with a simple formula: stock up, serve fast, and keep loyal customers coming back. Fast forward to 2025, and restaurant consumers still...
For too many businesses, marketing remains an expense item—a necessary cost of doing business – not a strategic driver of profit. But what if marketing wasn’t just an expense? What if, instead, it operated as a profit center—accountable for delivering measurable,...
3 Tips to turn a head-on contest with fin-techs to your advantage An announcement from SoLo Funds, a fin-tech company that operates a digital peer-to-peer lending service, could serve as both a warning and an opportunity for traditional banking institutions. SoLo...
If end-of-year sales results against the 2024 marketing budget were lackluster, it may be time to shift thinking on budget planning. For decades, a rule-of-thumb for setting marketing budgets has reliably been a simplistic percentage-of-previous-sales formula. We’re...
6 ways to optimize marketing ROI during economic uncertainty Depending on whom one asks, anywhere from 30 to 35 percent of North American firms plan to increase marketing budgets for 2025 – apparently the lowest number to do so of any region in the world. Why the...
The following is the final article in a 3-part series called “Attention Shoppers… The Competitive Strategy Approach to Addressing the Elephant in the Room of the Retail Crisis: The Customer Experience” One of the greatest retail debates of the last decade is over the...
