Paul Sage – Marketing
Marketing Observations with some Sage Advice
Category: Sage Thoughts
My opinions about all things marketing.
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Its name is simple, its logo features a capital A, but too many people call it “Sports Academy.” WRONG!! It’s Academy Sports. OK, officially Academy Sports + Outdoors (with a plus sign). Maybe people confuse it with Sports Authority, a smaller competitor with little to no retail presence in my neck of the nation. Drives me nuts. It’s a…
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This is a Wordle (TM) word cloud of my resume. Have you tried Wordle? Play with it at http://www.wordle.net/ It’s a great tool for boiling a strategy document down to essential thoughts. Give it a try. Let me know if you need help. I can Wordle and chew gum at the same time.
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Last September I commented on a restaurant that was all over the menu board: https://paulsagemarketing.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/yadda-yadda-yadda-served-here/ A bad stroke of luck for all you Kebab/Philly/Mexican and More fans. Aladdin’s has turned to vapor. How ironic.
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I feel like the kid who just found out about Santa Claus, or, in keeping with the season, the Easter Bunny. My illusion has just been shattered. Ozarka® water is not made in Arkansas. I just assumed it was. But what do I know, I live in Arkansas. Nonetheless, I was just being logical, or…
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It’s as difficult to grasp as seeing Michael Jordan wearing a minor league baseball uniform. Tide, the iconic Procter & Gamble brand of heavy-duty laundry detergent, is now a dry cleaners. https://www.tidedrycleaners.com/WebPages/Home.aspx Their website says, “We’ve been in your home for over 60 years. It’s about time we got our own place. Discover a fresh…
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Maybe it was just a bad run of their label-making press. Maybe it’s my inability to discern fifty shades of pink. Maybe I just don’t grasp the concept of subtlety in packaging. I’m having a hard time reading the label on this bottle of Aquafina Flavor Splash Sparkling Berry Loco Four Berry Blend Flavor, a…
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IMPORTANT UPDATE – 11 DECEMBER 2018: THE KIOSK HAS BEEN REMOVED! THERE IS NO LONGER THE KIOSK OPTION AND THE CUSTOMER HAS TO WAIT IN LINE AT THE COUNTER! WE HAVE GONE BACKWARD IN TIME! “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” …
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A most ingenious new product. How DID they get those flowers to grow in all those school colors? Even LSU purple and gold. You geaux, FTD.
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Aladdin’s: KABABS, PHILLIES, MEXICAN & MORE No thanks, Aladdin. I’ll just take the Subway.
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Today is College Colors Day. http://www.collegecolorsday.com/ It looks like an event cooked up to sell more NCAA-licensed merchandise. An incremental lift in t-shirt sales on this first weekend of college football. Group shots of people wearing the names of their schools in the workplace are scattered across social media. Lots of “my school can beat up…