What began as an attempt to market a new menu offering has turned into a full-fledged rebranding effort for IHOP, famously known for its pancakes. The restaurant chain recently changed its name, raising the question of whether the new brand is here to stay or...
RIP household marketing brand names AdWords and DoubleClick. It was a good 22-year run, but with the changing technology landscape, Google has strategically rebranded and introduced The Google Marketing Platform, or GMP for short. What is GMP? All the Google...
World Cup 2018 is well underway and we have an enthusiastic bunch of soccer (or “football,” if you will) fans here at Merritt Group. The games have been streaming around the clock and trash talk is reaching a fever pitch. While many brackets are already on life...
I’m not “hip” to most pop culture, and celebrity news is not quite my thing, but man, Anthony Bourdain’s passing hit me more than I thought it would - even weeks later. Bourdain was undeniably an incredible storyteller, and that’s why I, and so many others who didn’t...
Marketing is complicated. As a startup you know it’s important to communicate with your audience and to nurture relationships along the way. But when your team is lean and mean and focused on making sales to grow the business, it can seem like a distraction to shift...
I was weaving my way through Washington, D.C. traffic last week on the way to a client meeting when I caught an interesting story on 1A radio about “Artificial Intelligence. Real News?” For once, sitting in the car for an extended period is going to be a good...