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Dove’s #SpeakBeautiful Campaign: A Marketing Strategy & A Step Towards Body Positivity on Twitter

Background Most women and girls have experienced some kind of negativity online and have found social media to be harmful to their self-esteem. Though only 9% of women in the early 2010s admitted to participating in body-shaming over social media, research found the actual percentage to be much higher. As a hygiene brand, Dove’s target […]

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How lost Communication leads to Failure: Pampers & Audi

Communication is a vital step in the customer acquisition process. Promotion of the product is done effectively through advertisement strategies. Pampers first faced their first issue with their communication strategy when an advertisement lost translation to Japanese consumers. They introduced an advertisement that has done well in the U.S. markets, an animated stork delivering Pampers […]

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New Retail Trend: DTC to Wholesale

2023 is bringing a new trend! These days, brands are quicker to sell wholesale than DTC. Why? Well, let’s go back to 2020. We were all stuck at home! We could only shop online! So, as “pandemic life” diminishes, companies and brands are going back to the days when consumers shopped in stores. Since stores […]

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How to Use Social Media to Communicate CSR

What is CSR? CSR, aka corporate social responsibility, is “a self-regulating business model that helps a company be socially accountable to itself, its stakeholders, and the public,” (Hansen, 2023). It entails a company being aware of the impact it has on all areas of society, whether it be environmental, social, or economic. The main goal […]

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun With Legos Too

Background LEGO has long found success with using market research to illuminate consumer tastes and preferences. In the early 2000s, the company was directionless and failing, so LEGO turned to market research to try and rebuild their brand. This turned out to be the right decision, because research into their target market of young boys […]