The High Cost of Cheap Marketing
Because hope is not a marketing strategy. Sometimes–especially when money gets tight–management and business owners will take for granted that a marketing strategy isn’t necessary, or that it’s too expensive. They recategorize it as a…
Align Sales and Marketing With These Strategies
Are Your Sales and Marketing Teams At War? Sales and marketing are often treated as separate disciplines—divided by workflows, KPIs, and even office walls. Not good, we think. When these two functions operate in sync,…
The Real ICP: How 7 Founders Redefined Their Ideal Customer—and Why It Changed Everything
How To Define Your Ideal Customer Profile and Why It Matters In theory, the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) is a tidy exercise: define your target audience, build messaging around them, and watch qualified leads pour…
Does Account Based Marketing (ABM) Really Work?
Everyone’s talking about ABM. Why? In this article, the advertising and branding experts at Mandel Marketing gathered insights from thought leaders on Account-Based Marketing (ABM). We’ll see how ABM is effective for targeted B2B strategies,…
How to Achieve a “State of Flow” in Your Work
Flow like a river, ideas and production. The “state of flow” is that elusive zone of peak productivity and deep focus. Like obscenity, it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it….
When Should a Startup Prioritize Marketing Efforts?
Unfortunately, a brilliant idea alone isn’t enough. Success hinges on effectively connecting that idea with its intended audience. (We here at Mandel call it “marketing.”) But it’s not always clear when a startup or early-stage…
How People Are Using AI to Improve their Lives in 2025
AI isn’t coming. It’s already here. Seems like everyone is talking about artificial intelligence these days, and we here at Mandel Marketing are no exception. We use AI selectively to improve our business and our…
Marketing and Advertising in 2025
Where Is Marketing and Advertising Going in 2025? Nobody can predict the future. But we can take an educated guess. Here at Mandel Marketing we’ve been in this game for decades, and we’ve watched the…
Contextual Advertising: A Guide
Contextual Advertising Is Coming Back As we move towards a privacy-centric online environment, “traditional” digital methods of targeting audiences are becoming less effective. (We say “traditional” in quotes because it’s all still relatively recent.) Enter…
How To Write A Creative Brief
Wait, WTF is a creative brief? A creative brief is a document that you give your ad agency (or graphic designer, or nephew/intern, or whoever) that tells them what you want. A well-crafted creative brief…