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Archive for May, 2009

Now that College of Charleston’s branding campaign has been successfully rolled out, I thought I’d share it with you. In the spirit of full disclosure, my agency created and executed the campaign. We’ve also had the benefit of a wonderful client team at College of Charleston. They get it. And they chose well from the [...]

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In all of my spare time, I’ve been reading the various texts that keep coming out about social media. The latest was Joel Comm’s Twitter Power. For me, it is getting hard to be have a balanced perspective about all of these introductory social media books. My current point of view is that most of [...]

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This morning I read in MediaPost’s Marketing Daily that customers’ commitment to retail banks has decline for the third consecutive year. They were pulling information from the 2009 J.D. Power Retail Banking Satisfaction Study.
Quoting from the MediaPost Marketing Daily article:
“The study finds that customer perceptions of bank brand image have declined for a third consecutive [...]

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This is a followup post to two earlier posts about my experience at the Renaissance Providence Hotel in Rhode Island – a Marriott property. After my post titled “Does Marriott Use Google Alerts” my blog was flooded with traffic. And I received an email from the general manager of the Renaissance Providence Hotel confirming that [...]

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I find myself wondering if Marriott uses Google Alerts to help it monitor online conversations about the Marriott family of brands. I wrote a post recently about my experience at the Renaissance Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island, and have not been flooded with visitors from Marriott. It could be that they are clueless about the [...]

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For the last couple days I’ve been staying at the Renaissance Providence Hotel in Rhode Island. This is a very nice hotel, and not cheap. My stay was about $200 per night with all the various charges, and that was with the conference discount. (I was a speaker yesterday at a conference being held in [...]

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