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Email and your sustainable marketing mix, Part 2

02.18.2010
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Email predates the Internet. Decades of experience make it hard to say anything new or non-trivial about it and how to use it for marketing. But what about sustainability? Now that you know that email can be nicely integrated into your sustainable marketing mix, how do you actually do it?
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Email and your sustainable marketing mix, Part 1

02.16.2010
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A recent question on LinkedIn Answers – Direct Marketing asked: “E-mail marketing – redundant direct marketing tool?” All 11 respondents, including mine, answered largely in the negative.
The ascendancy of social media spells anything but death of email. On the contrary, email marketing can be effective as a direct marketing tool, though its emphasis has shifted, [...]

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Measuring the environmental impact of marketing, Part 2

02.02.2010
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If Life Cycle Assessment for marketing communications would be a mean feat, measuring carbon footprint, a subset of LCA, would considerably simplify the process of evaluating its environmental impact, while still allowing for identifying greatest impacts and baselines for reduction.
Carbon footprint
Carbon footprint is “the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted [...]

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Measuring the environmental impact of marketing, Part 1

02.01.2010
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Discussions about environmental sustainability in business rarely mention the environmental footprint of marketing communications. Yet marketing successfully consumes too much energy and produces too much stuff to be ignored in considering — and lowering — your company’s environmental impact.
What is the environmental footprint of your company’s marketing? How can you reduce it without negatively impacting [...]

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Framing sustainability in terms of the good life

10.06.2009

Guest post by Beth Meredith. All views in the post are the authors’ alone.
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Sustainability is a wonderful concept, though it is often misunderstood and misconceptions have grown with popular use. We knew [...]

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Two ways of framing efficiency and why neither may matter

08.16.2009

This August, I’m hosting my sister and her husband here on the West Coast – they live in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and they’re both visiting the U.S. for the first time. Driving around Northern California and up to Oregon, we discussed the country’s vastness, and the distances and drive times that go with it. Inevitably, [...]

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Bottom up economics: The role small employers play

08.13.2009

This guest post is from Hannah Sandmeyer, who blogs at the Q19 Greening Blog. All views in the post are the author’s alone.
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In a time of economic uncertainty, it only seems commonsensical [...]

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Solutions for sustainable consumption: Cash

08.02.2009

Or debit. Or spend only what you have.
When I moved to the States at the height of the housing boom, in 2003, an early discovery unsettled me. I had to have credit to do pretty much anything – rent an apartment, get a job, or buy a car. Having no credit history, the only way [...]

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Book review: “Green Recovery: Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge from the Downturn on Top”

07.31.2009

“Following the green path, especially in hard times can lead your company to higher profits and sustainable advantage.” That’s the main premise of Andrew Winston’s new book Green Recovery. The tricky word is “can”, which Winston addresses by outlining four basic strategies for riding out the recession and emerging ahead of the game.
Get lean. To [...]

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