Daily Chirp

Brand Management Daily Chirp for the busy professional

• Look Who's 10: Happy Birthday MarketingProfs!
  This year marks the 10-year anniversary of MarketingProfs. The site was founded a decade ago by CEO Allen Weiss, a marketing academic, as a place where his fellow "prof"-essors and marketing "prof"-essionals could learn from each other. more
• McCafé? McProfits!
  Looks like the recent $100 million ad blitz for the McCafé seems to be working. The McDonald's experiment in the specialty coffee arena may now have bumped Dunkin' Donuts from the No. 2 spot. But how? more
• Commercial Break: Get a Mac, Bean Counter
  In this regular Daily Chirp feature, William Arruda shares some of his favorite television ads. And he offers up a lesson for how the ad relates to your personal brand. Today, he looks at one of the Get a Mac ads, a series that began in 2006 and is still as humorous, and popular, as ever. more
• Commercial Break: Nestle's Sweet Dreams You Can't Resist
  In this regular Daily Chirp feature, William Arruda shares some of his favorite television ads. And he offers up a lesson for how the ad relates to your personal brand. Today, he looks at Nestle's "Sweet Dreams You Can't Resist." more
• Selling Pork in the Age of Swine Flu
  The MarketingProfs customer-service team received an interesting message recently from a pork producer in Mexico. "At this moment we are suffering the worst crisis ever in the national pork industry... [and] we have no further blood to bleed out," wrote Carlos, a pork processor and retailer. He asks: Could marketing help him combat misinformation and unfounded claims about his pork? more
• Commercial Break: The Softer Side of Sears
  In this new Daily Chirp feature, personal-branding guru William Arruda digs into his vast collection of classic TV advertisements and teases out a related lesson for modern-day personal branding. First up: a 1993 Sears campaign. more
• Hold the Plastic
  Susan Boyle wowed the world when she recently debuted on "Britain's Got Talent." What are the lessons in her success for marketers? more