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First Failure Then success
It is not easy to get it right first time as the founders of leading brands discovered. Today they are household names like Kleenex, Pepsi Cola and Kotex yet this was not always the case.
Why advertising spend will shift as brands track sales, not clicks
Marketing budgets are on the up. According to the latest IPA Bellwether Report, a net balance of 8.7% of marketers said their budgets had increased in the first three months of this year; marking a huge improvement on the previous quarter's 0%. And digital was one of...
Pepsi Cola – in the face of adversity
How it began Caleb Bradham invented a formula for the first Pepsi-Cola soft drink in 1893. By 1931, Pepsi was suffering its second bankruptcy. Fast-forward to 2018, the company now called PepsiCo reported a turnover of $62.525 billion with a market capitalization...
Hard sell even with social network
How it began Imagine you have to plan a campaign for a retail consumer product half the population needs but you cannot advertise in mainstream press. Most wholesalers and retailers refuse to stock it and the ones that do cannot display it keeping it in their stock...