Archive for the ‘Marketing and Branding’ Category

Entrepreneur U: Smart Marketing for Emerging Companies

Here’s the presentation we gave at the CleanTech InnoVenture Center in Lynn, MA on August 17, 2011. Thank you to all who participated! It was a lively discussion. Smart marketing – Entrepreneur U View more presentations from Beth Zonis

Eco Marketing is like regular marketing, just nuanced

Eco Marketing requires all of the usual marketing considerations, but nuanced.  For every organization the starting point should be a value proposition that is meaningful to your customers.  As Jacqueline Ottman explains in Green Marketing Myopia[1], it’s important not to get too carried away with the green-ness or sustainability of your offering, at the expense [...]

Tips on branding

Tell your story with passion.  Passion can be contagious.  And genuine passion gets noticed. At the same time, it’s important to have a unique value proposition: Who cares about what you do? (What is their challenge, problem, immediate need?) What do you do to solve their problem(s)? What makes you unique and better than available [...]