Supreme Court strikes down ban on scandalous trademarks, in dispute over 'FUCT' clothing line
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of a federal law blocking trademarks for names or logos bearing "immoral" or "scandalous" images -- including profanity and sexual imagery. The justices said in a unanimous ruling that the law violated the constitutional rights of designer Erik Brunetti.
Monday, June 24, 2019
Trademark Law | Is your trademark in jeopardy?
Are you launching a business or do you have a risky or possibly offensive brand name and logo? On Monday, June 24th, 2019 the Supreme Court of the United States possibly ruled in your favor and the company at the epicenter of this major case is clothing brand name "FUCT." Read the interesting article on Fox News below and talk to your Trademark Attorney about saving your business from being "FUCT" if for some reason you do create a brand that crosses the new legal line set by the highest court in the land of the free.
Sometimes you can find a great solution outside the box...and sometimes the solution is the box.
Monday, June 17, 2019
Top 10 Reasons Our Agency Loves Constant Contact
Constant Contact is GBM Marketing's choice for eMail marketing because it allows us to focus on quality content and optimization without getting stuck in application set up hell. But, most of all we love the click through rates our clients get with every campaign!
Wow...what a great feeling when you create an email campaign for a Century21 franchise and land a 54% click through rate from a targeted email list. In the world of proactive marketing results like this most certainly lead to phone calls, emails and good conversations between agents and prospects. And, we all know that quality conversations lead to closed sales.
One important reason why we use Constant Contact is that we can focus on quality content production and optimization without spending too much time fine tuning the email marketing templates, images and links. This is because the developers behind the Constant Contact interface have engineered easy to use "what you see is what you get" tools that are fast and reliable for any level of publisher. The finished publications look professional and respond well with all types of devices. This also makes our agency confident when we commit to delivering marketing and communications results quickly and cost effectively.
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One important reason why we use Constant Contact is that we can focus on quality content production and optimization without spending too much time fine tuning the email marketing templates, images and links. This is because the developers behind the Constant Contact interface have engineered easy to use "what you see is what you get" tools that are fast and reliable for any level of publisher. The finished publications look professional and respond well with all types of devices. This also makes our agency confident when we commit to delivering marketing and communications results quickly and cost effectively.
Sometimes you can find a great solution outside the box...and sometimes the solution is the box.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Grateful Dead Marketing Lesson #1: Let Fans Share Your Product
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| Cassette with Grateful Dead Tunes |
What an amazing marketing strategy and to think this came from the stereotypical "hippie" band at a time when there was no Internet, no smart phones, no cable television, and the most popular recording would later lead to Richard Nixon resigning from his post as the President of the United States.
Even better, the band never played the same set of music at any one show creating a constant stream of people sharing recordings of live music that were highly unique. This was the epitome of social sharing in a time when recording music wasn't easy and sharing a cassette tape required an in-person exchange. Imagine if Soundcloud and Facebook were available way back in the seventies?
Sometimes you can find a great solution outside the box...and sometimes the solution is the box.
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Are You Aware of Google's June 2019 Core Update?
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| Google 2019 Core Update |
We've been watching our web sites and haven't seen any significant differences as of today. Google has been communicating about this update (more than usual) and says that the roll-out will take some time to move through the firm's massive data centers.
So, keep an eye on your company's organic web site search rankings.
Search Engine Land is covering this update in their typical diligent reporting fashion. Here are two of their latest articles about the June 2019 Core Update:
June 5th, 2019 Early data around the Google June 2019 core update shows some winners, losers
June 3rd, 2019 Google begins rolling out June 2019 core update
Sometimes you can find a great solution outside the box...and sometimes the solution is the box.
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