Elaine Fogel

Elaine Fogel is a marketing, branding, and customer experience evangelist, professional speaker, and author of Beyond Your Logo: 7 Brand Ideas That Matter Most For Small Business Success. People in 100+ countries regularly read her blog, Totally Uncorked on Marketing and her articles have appeared in many publications.

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The Top Customer Experience Lesson from Hawaii

If you’ve ever been to Hawaii, you’ll totally “get” this post. And, even if you haven’t, read on to discover the top customer experience strategy they use in the Hawaiian Islands. I just returned from my…

Why You Should Care About Social Listening

What the heck is “social listening?” Another marketing buzzword? Well yes, it is! Ya gotta love marketing for all its new fangled terms and phrases that creep into our vocabulary. I was a Tweetchat guest…

Facebook Company Pages Score High with US Consumers

If your B2C business (or nonprofit organization) has a Facebook company page, it appears that it’s in the “right” social media space. The recent Temkin Group study, Social Media Benchmark, 2016, shows how consumer use of…

The Surprising Marketing Channel That Gen Xers Value

We hear so much about Millennials these days, that we almost forget Gen Xers as a market force. Well, a recent MarketingCharts study and Yahoo report give us some insight into this unsung generation. “Generation X,…

Valuable Printing Concepts You’ll Want to Know for Marketing: Part 2

Whether your business or organization uses traditional or digital marketing channels, there’s always a need for printed marketing collateral such as brochures, business cards, posters, and the like. When you’re in charge of ordering printed…

Valuable Printing Concepts You’ll Want to Know for Marketing: Part 1

Whether your business or organization uses traditional or digital marketing channels, there’s always a need for printed marketing collateral such as brochures, business cards, posters, and the like. When you’re in charge of ordering printed…

7 Important Customer-Related Definitions You Should Know

If your organization has customers, then it’s important for you and your team to know and understand the most commonly used and important customer-related definitions used today. If you’re a marketing professional, chances are you’re…

A Surefire Way to Market to Millennials

More than one-in-three American workers today is a millennial, giving this generation the largest share of the American workforce. To put their purchasing power into perspective, millennials (born between 1982 and 2000) now number 83.1 million in the…

Combining IN and OUT Marketing Proven the Best Choice

A new study says that neither inbound nor outbound marketing tactics alone are adequate to drive a business. What it takes is a combination of both. According to the Inbound Marketing Effectiveness Benchmark Study Report – Q2…

How to Overcome Brand-Killing Customer Service Glitches

Most of us have experienced them… customer service glitches. Those nasty technological boo-boos that make us want to scream! Now, place yourself in your customers’ shoes experiencing those glitches with your business or organization. Ouch. No matter…