I can’t say I wasn’t warned. When I was 21 years old, starting the Adverting Graduate Program at Northwestern University, I was told by people from business and academia that advertising was a "young man's game." (Despite the fact that my class was half-female.) While I...
I could write a book about dating. Two books, actually. One covering the love life of my 20’s and early 30’s and one about dating over 50. Both would be fascinating, but in very different ways. And the book about my marriage, between the ages...
Grey Goose has been on the decline in recent years, a victim of life-cycle, an ultra-competitive category, and possibly, the realization of many that it just might not matter what vodka you order if it’s an ingredient in a mixed drink and you can’t taste...
Marketing Strategy in a Post-Truth Society I got off the freeway and drove straight to the car wash. My car is always covered with a fine layer of sand on it when I get back from visiting my parents in Palm Desert, not to mention...
Ken Sadowsky is as close as you come to being clairvoyant. As a distributor, board member and investor, Ken has always seen the future of the beverage industry before anyone else. Growing up in a family that owned a beer and soft drink distribution company just outside Boston,...
Bloomberg reported this week that “Weight Watchers… stock took a beating Wednesday (February 27), dropping as much as 36 percent on a dismal profit forecast after it struggled to sign up customers during the key post-holiday dieting season.” Oprah Winfrey, who owns 8% of the company, lost $58...
I always watch the Super Bowl but never watch the Oscars. Seems that I have gotten this dead wrong all these years. My first issue with the Academy Awards is my personal struggle to ever deem anything “best.” Favorite song? Favorite movie? There’s no way I...
As Adweek reports this week, “Little about The Wonderful Company’s new wine brand is practical.” I’d take it a step further. Little of it makes any marketing sense. In the dead of winter, and a nasty one across most of the U.S. at that, the only...
Men are from Mars and women are from Venus. And some men are from up Uranus. One Super Bowl spot we won’t be seeing is Gillette’s controversial “Best a Man Can Get.” P&G says the cost of a two-minute ad buy is the reason why the spot...
The sidewalks were littered with scooters. Not the Razor scooters my kids played with, but scooters with motors. “What are these things?” I asked the friend I had met up with close to where he lives in Venice (California.) “They’re amazing,” he replied. We ride them...