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Profile: Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan's a 25+ year marketing agency veteran who lives for creating "a ha" moments for his clients, clients' customers, peers and audiences across the land. Sadly, for his daughter, he attempts to do the same thing at home.

Drew’s favorite tools for creating these moments are vivid story telling, Italian heritage inspired hand gestures and the occasional tipping of a sacred cow.

Over the years, Drew has lent his expertise to clients like Nabisco, IAMS pet foods, Kraft Foods, Meredith Publishing, John Deere, Iowa Health System, Make-A-Wish, and a wide array of others.

Drew is also one of the world’s top marketing and branding bloggers.

He’s written the book 99.3 Random Acts of Marketing, co-editing the Age of Conversation series of books and in 1995, he launched his own firm McLellan Marketing Group.

Recently he has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Business Week and Fortune’s Small Business. The Wall Street Journal calls him one of 10 bloggers that every entrepreneur should read.

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How Does Your Paper Resume Stack Up to This?

How Does Your Paper Resume Stack Up to This?

Human Resources

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What Do Consumers Want From Brands?

What Do Consumers Want From Brands?

Consumer Marketing

That’s the age-old question, isn’t it? When you think about everything we’ve experienced in the last decade and a half – from the Y2K scare to 9/11, Iraq and then... read more

Marketing is Getting the Details Right

Marketing is Getting the Details Right

Marketing

Marketing is getting the details right. And its always the simple things that companies mess up. Let me give you an example. As you may know, I travel quite a... read more

Your Marketing Includes Way Too Much You

Your Marketing Includes Way Too Much You

Marketing

One of the most common mistakes marketers make is that they think their customers and prospects care about them, what they sell and how it works. The human truth is... read more

Make the Most of Any Conference You Attend

Make the Most of Any Conference You Attend

Strategy

It seem intuitive to us that if we’re heading to a trade show as an exhibitor we should be thoughtful about how to maximize that time and dollar investment. Yet... read more


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Bad Things Happen in the Dark

Bad Things Happen in the Dark

Strategy

When you think about it — being in the dark is always scary. When you were a kid, laying in bed and you heard a strange noise in your closet... read more

Hey Media Rep… Do It Like This (Please)

Hey Media Rep… Do It Like This (Please)

Strategy

I totally get that you are trying to make a living and that someone at your radio station, newspaper, TV station, magazine etc. says that my client should be advertising... read more

Selling Shouldn’t Equal Annoying

Selling Shouldn’t Equal Annoying

Strategy

There’s a Walgreens a few blocks from my house. It’s a convenient place to get just about everything, so I’m there a few times a week. It seems like every... read more

Touching My Heart Doesn’t Necessarily Touch my Wallet

Touching My Heart Doesn’t Necessarily Touch my Wallet

Marketing

Two of the best Superbowl commercials from yesterday were by Budweiser (no shock) and Jeep (a little more surprising). Lots of tweets and FB updates mentioned “tearing up” as they... read more

Bring Your Marketing to Life

Bring Your Marketing to Life

Marketing

For the past decade, we’ve been talking about experiential marketing. It’s not enough to create an awareness of your product — you need to, when you can, connect with your... read more

Data Delivers Customized Experiences

Data Delivers Customized Experiences

Customer Experience

I’ve been exploring some of the trends that should be on everyone’s radar screen as we enter 2013.  As with all trends, some of these are still emerging and others... read more

Are You Ready for the Attention?

Strategy

Let me paint you a picture. You have a new product that you’re bringing to market in the next 60 days. You have the opportunity to showcase this new product... read more

JWT Intelligence — Trends for 2013

JWT Intelligence — Trends for 2013

Trends & News

The end of the year = predictions for the upcoming year. All of them are interesting but the one I really put stock in is JWT‘s annual trends report. They... read more

Five Trade Show Mistakes to Avoid

Five Trade Show Mistakes to Avoid

Marketing

Mistake #1: Not having a pre-game plan. Trade shows are one of those things that sneak up on you. You’re going to have to be out of the office for... read more

Is There Science to Facebook Engagment?

Is There Science to Facebook Engagment?

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According to this infographic produced by AmEx Open Forum, the answer is yes. by AmExOPENForum.Learn about data visualization software. But I think that’s putting the cart before the horse. As... read more