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Paper Presentation at AMTP in San Destin FL

Our working paper, “The Brand Axis: Strategic Impacts of Loyalty and Engagement within the Social Media Magnet Theory” has been accepted for presentation at the Association for Marketing Theory and Practice Conference in San Destin, FL.  We will be presenting in Session 9.2 on Saturday from 9:00-10:15am.  Below is the
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Doug the Pug Super Bowl Celebrity ‘Mmus Pizza with Sabra

Doug the Pug, Super Bowl Celebrity, is now an international sensation.  Our heart is bursting with pride.  Did you see our very own Doug the Pug in the 2020 Sabra Superbowl Commercial? Doug likes to ‘Mmus Pizza!  We followers of Doug could have guessed that was coming!  In our Social
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Certification Day Honors New Certified Social Media Magnets

Over the past few weeks, many schools around the country have celebrated Certification Day with their marketing and communication students.  Students earned their Social Media Magnet Certification and placed their practicum experience and their new certifications on their LinkedIn profiles.  It’s a great way to end the semester.  They collectively
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Diageo: Marketing Spend Is No Longer First To Be Cut

In a recent article by Marketing Week, Diageo was highlighted for their “profound” internal shift to the belief in marketing across the business after embedding its effectiveness platform, call Catalyst, throughout its marketing teams.  Catalyst was launched over two years ago with the purpose of providing Diageo’s marketing team with
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Best Digital Marketing Stats the Week of October 6th 2019

Econsultancy.com is a site that we follow on a regular basis to get up-to-date digital marketing stats and news.  We thought this week’s post was especially interesting.  Takeaways from the article include: The number one challenge for UX teams in the product development process is including research. Friends and family
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Social Media Magnet Courseware Rates a Perfect Score

Fellow professors, I thought I would share one of the itemized assessments in my course evaluations from this previous semester.  The question above rated a perfect score on my evaluations. In this class, I scored a 6 out of 6 on this question.  That is, all of the examples and