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The work of asking fundamental questions ahead of any creative work. Answers come from client experience and the mind of the customer. Socratic Creative distills robust answers to key questions into actionable creative guidance. Simple, effective, rarely done.

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Museums and Cultural
Organizations

So you have a compelling offer that you know your prospective visitors will value. The task of advertising is to communicate that offer in a way that your audience will notice amidst the thousands of marketing messages that bombard them each day. Achieving this goal takes superior design and sharp copywriting—but these will amount to white noise without a clear strategy that engages the viewer to find out more.

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Nonprofit Healthcare
Organizations

Healthcare marketing brands tend to be relatively weak and the industry as a whole is risk-averse, highly complex, hierarchical, and poorly incentivized for innovation. Yet the work is important, and the societal benefit profound. So let’s bring the level of marketing up, especially for all those organizations that are truly bringing value to the world.

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Commercial
Enterprises

Marketing is an essential tool for businesses, though it’s often misunderstood. Our definition of it is simple: “customer understanding, applied.” It is about knowing who your customers are and what they value. With this insight you can avoid wasting your resources on the wrong customers or the wrong messages, and instead, target the right customers with messages that resonate.

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Healthcare

Understanding Patient Expectations: How People Pick Their Doctors and Hospitals

Choosing the right doctor or hospital is one of the most critical decisions a patient can make. Similarly, understanding patient expectations—the factors that drive their choices—is crucial

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Healthcare

Academic and Community Health Systems: What Happens When They Merge?

What’s the difference between a community health system and an academic medical center? To most, a hospital is simply a hospital. However, the rising pattern of university

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Advertising & Marketing Culture Museums

Museum Advertising That’s Not a Waste of Money

Run your museum exhibition advertising campaign with as little waste as possible. It’s a five-step process. Simple but not easy.

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Culture Museums Other thoughts

Museums and Community: The Struggle to See What’s Right In Front of You

Deborah Ziska, former Chief of Press and Public Information at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, just published an article on the AAM blog about

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Advertising & Marketing Healthcare

Tronvig Creates Super Bowl Ads for Consumer Directed Choices

It’s not every day that you get to put your client on the Super Bowl. It’s one of the holy grails of advertising. This is the abbreviated

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Healthcare

Understanding Patient Expectations: How People Pick Their Doctors and Hospitals

Choosing the right doctor or hospital is one of the most critical decisions a patient can make. Similarly, understanding patient expectations—the factors that drive their choices—is crucial

READ MORE

Healthcare

Academic and Community Health Systems: What Happens When They Merge?

What’s the difference between a community health system and an academic medical center? To most, a hospital is simply a hospital. However, the rising pattern of university

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Advertising & Marketing

James Heaton, President of Tronvig, Answers Questions About Advertising and Tronvig

I'm on a marketing professionals panel to help high school students learn about marketing and advertising as a possible profession. The organizers just gave this year’s questions.

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Healthcare

Free Market vs. Monopolistic Approaches in Healthcare Systems

In an era of constant debate about the “best” healthcare system, learning about different models is crucial. From free market principles to monopolistic practices, how do these

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Healthcare Organizational Alignment

Shifting the Culture in Healthcare From Silence to Empowerment

Hesitating to speak up is particularly prevalent in healthcare, and my conversations with friends in the industry—nurses, residents, doctors—reveal a resigned acceptance of this status quo. Sentiments

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