Author Archives: leahswearingen

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Marketing Communications Specialist

Communicating for Decision Simplicity

Share From blue jeans to smart phones to insurance, consumers are overwhelmed with options. No matter what we are in the market for, we embrace brands that make it easier for us to decide.

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Face it, CEOs: Social Media Is Now Part of Your Job Description

Share CEOs in large numbers continue to avoid

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Trust in the Media Continues to Decline

Share When it comes to describing their level of trust in the mass media, 60 percent of Americans state, “Not very much,” or “not at all” according to a new Gallup survey.

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Three Guideposts for New Media, Circa 2012

Share As I prepare my remarks for next week’s

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Back When We Were Adults

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Keeping Clients Amid all the Creative Destruction

Share A recent column by Washington Post columnist George F. Will, entitled “The Glory of Chaos,” discusses creative destruction.

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Snail Mail, Email, Or Both?

Share The past few months I’ve been managing more than the average number of communications campaigns.

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Speak To Your Clients’ “Pain.”

Share One of the earliest lessons marketers learn is to focus on benefits, rather than features.

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Communications That Create Value

Share As 2011 winds down, it’s a good time to ask: Did our communications create value this year?

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What’s Your Digital Vision?

Share Digital is becoming more pervasive in every nook and cranny of our world. Yet many accomplished Baby Boomers are still, as the old song goes, “hoping, wishing, and praying” that the digital revolution will die a slow

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