The Responsibility of a New York Times Op-Ed Piece

Authors’ missed opportunity to start a dialogue replaced by hyperbole, selective statistics and a mean-spirited sensibility.
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Are You Paying Too Much or Too Little Attention to Your Competition?

Is Embracing the Competition the New Black? We’ve all been there: worrying about what our competitors are doing, wishing we had thought of their great idea, regretting we hadn’t made more sales calls or anguishing over the possibility of lost market share. It’s easy to get upset about an aggressive competitor, but is that the best business approach? Perhaps not. What if you were...
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Rafflegate: Infertility Marketing Gone Wild or Much Ado About Nothing?

Yet another infertility “scandal,” but this time it’s occurring across the pond and concerns those “ugly American” advertisers and infertility marketers! The brouhaha erupted after an American fertility clinic and its British partner organized a patient education seminar in London where they raffled a free egg donation cycle as a way to attract participants. The...
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What Patients Really Want From Fertility Marketing

Are You Reading Your Daily Blog Roll? Remember “What Women Want,” the movie starring an unmentionable male movie star as a chauvinistic (art imitating life) advertising executive who could read women’s minds? His “gift,” incurred after he accidentally hit his head, helped him achieve a better understanding of the opposite sex both professionally and personally. It...
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The 80/20 Rule: Are You Using it to Your Advantage?

You’ve prob­a­bly heard of the 80/20 rule, but are you using it advan­ta­geously in your mar­ket­ing efforts? Use the 80/20 Rule to Your Mar­ket­ing Advantage In the early 1900’s, an Ital­ian econ­o­mist named Vil­fredo Pareto for­mu­lated this con­cept from his obser­va­tion that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by the wealth­i­est 20% of the pop­u­la­tion. Later he...
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