Best selling author on the future of business Thales Teixeira has spent a considerable amount of time dissecting the ins and outs of the business world. In his recent book, “Unlocking the Customer Value Chain,” he details the disruption in traditional models of business. As a former Lumry Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School,...
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New Game, More Defined Strategies
A couple of the newest buzzwords in marketing today are DOOH (Digital Out of Home) and CTV/OTT. CTV is the device used to watch TV content online, like a smart TV or a gaming console, while OTT is the delivery mechanism for TV content online, usually through streaming or video on demand, “over the top”...
Your Move
Why Marketing is Accountable Craig Agranoff remembers marketing’s good old days. The thing is that he’s not quite sure if the memories feel like they were yesterday. The pandemic has changed all of that. Today’s chaos-charged environment continues to blur the lines for everything and everyone, especially marketers, whose “new normal” presents persistent challenges to...
Winter 2020 Projects
At NextPage we do a lot of projects that deserve a spotlight. As with other idea people, we believe the sharing of ideas can have a major effect on the creative process. We hope that some of our most enjoyable and sometimes ambitious projects may spark something in our readers to create something bold. Here...
Fall 2020 Projects
At NextPage we do a lot of projects that deserve a spotlight. As with other idea people, we believe the sharing of ideas can have a major effect on the creative process. We hope that some of our most enjoyable and sometimes ambitious projects may spark something in our readers to create something bold. Creative...
The Story Is The Story
For the past 14-plus years, Sylvie Tongco has worked in communications and marketing in the technology world. Spending the majority of her career helping Silicon Valley startups, enterprise companies and venture capital firms unlock their stories to build sustainable and thought-leading positions, she understands the power of a good story. Today, as the VP of...
COVID-19 Presents New Opportunities for Multi-Channel Marketing
“The latest findings from JICMail have reported record-breaking double-digit increases in the effectiveness of direct mail and door drops during the COVID crisis.” -Darryl Danielli. With the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, print industries have been working non-stop to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Of course, print companies definitely aren’t the first to come to...
The New Tools of Engagement
A Look At What Works And Why It is not just marketing. It is engagement economy. There is a shrinking gap between companies and their customers because the tools of engagement have evolved to make it a tighter connection. No wonder the sales funnel has skipped right over the sales department. Customers know what they...
The State of Graphic Design
How creatives see the landscape shaping By Alyssa Ruane Modern times call for new approaches to decades-old practices. Anyone in the marketing landscape today realizes this-with AR and VR disrupting reality and consumers’ tastes shifting with a single tweet-the brand playing field has never been more robust, crowded or exciting. As a full-circle brand experience...
Blue Ocean Shift: Competition Redefined
In their best-selling book, “Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant” and “Blue Ocean Shift,” world-renowned professors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne argued that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Embraced by organizations and industries worldwide,...