30 seconds to pitch your building product. Can you do it?

30 seconds to pitch your building product. Can you do it?

Many companies can, quite easily, describe their brand and what it stands for.  These descriptions can become too long to be effective.  Is it possible to describe your brand in less than a minute? What about 30 seconds? In a post discussing the importance...
5 Tips for Pitching to Trade Publications

5 Tips for Pitching to Trade Publications

Trade publications are perhaps one of the most important PR tools for home and building professionals. Because they reach a very focused target audience, many of our media efforts involve working with trade publications relevant to our industry. But just because...
How Building Products Can Compete and Win as a Challenger Brand

How Building Products Can Compete and Win as a Challenger Brand

Say the phrase “challenger brand” and classic marketing stories come to mind: Avis vs. Hertz, Coke vs. Pepsi, Apple vs. Microsoft. These are typically David and Goliath stories, where smaller companies nibble away at the market share of industry giants,...

Scent Marketing: A Familiar Smell

While not a new marketing concept (in fact, we wrote about it in 2009), the practice of using aromas to illicit an emotional connection remains an intriguing premise. Most recently, airlines are discussing the use of scent in brand marketing to help differentiate...