Product Marketing

Product marketing is your branding and packaging coming to life.

Marketing products requires consideration of packaging, distribution channels, and front-end retail display. Get tips and food for thought with these helpful articles.

Packaging and
Labeling Your Products

Product packaging must be appealing in order to attract and hold the consumers’ eye and attention, and serve as an efficient and functional shipping container. Most physical products require packaging. This involves the design of a box or wrapper that contains the product. In addition to the function it performs […]

Purchase
Incentive Fulfillment

Purchase incentives are an every-day occurrence. We see them everywhere, from simple coupons to instant rebates to frequent flier miles. Does your business offer a purchase incentive as a marketing tactic? How much good does it do for your business… really? Does your fulfillment deliver the goods? I’m a geezer who remembers mailing in breakfast […]

Choosing Your
Sales Channels

Channel marketing proves to be a “fit” if the process better responds to the desires of the target market than the organization could do alone. An organization must answer the question, “Will our customers or clients be better served by channel members rather than having us perform these functions?” Lot size How many “units” does […]

Product Publicity
and PR Success

The Client: New Deal Playing Card Company “Making the best of the hand you are dealt.” Several months ago I took a phone call from an executive at The New Deal Playing Card Company. Her husband had just invented, patented and launched a unique line of ergonomically correct playing cards designed to fit […]

How to Plug Your Business Into the Media

We all know what an electricity generator is and does, but when it comes to getting media exposure for your business, how good is your “publicity generator?” If you think about it, there are a lot of similarities between the two. Whether it’s your business’ electricity generator or its publicity generator that fails […]

Product Publicity or Business Publicity?

Is there a difference between product publicity and business publicity and which one is right for you? To some entrepreneurs and business owners, the answer to this question might be, “it doesn’t matter — publicity is publicity and I’ll take all I can get.” True to a degree, but the smart entrepreneur knows […]

Moving Goods:
Producers – Consumers

How do you most efficiently get your product or service to the people that need it and are willing to pay for it? Using a marketing channel may be a solution. Channel marketing describes the organizations that work together to get your product or service to the end user. Extending Your Reach […]