Jason Piasecki
Jason is a Partner and the CEO at Revel, a B2B marketing agency. He is a diehard baseball fan who loves his Detroit Tigers. Family vacations often revolve around seeing games in different MLB ballparks around the country – they’ve been to 21 so far and counting. Connect with him on LinkedIn or Twitter.
B2B Marketing is (Not) Boring
Business-to-business (B2B) marketing is boring, analytical, and hopelessly left-brained. That’s been the conventional thinking in the advertising world for years. If you’re mostly analytical and methodical in your thinking, you’re said to be left-brained. If you tend to be more creative or artistic, you’re thought to be right-brained. Mötley Crüe ...
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Marketing Malpractice
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation opens up with Chevy Chase (a.k.a. Clark Griswold) behind the wheel of the family truckster. After a near-death experience where he mutters the much-repeated phrase by my sisters and me, “Burn dust. Eat my rubber,” he leads his family out into the woods on a quest for ...
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The Power of Walking
I’ve been a dedicated walker ever since I got my Fitbit 6 years ago. I don’t run. If Mark Twain were a walker, he’d probably have said something like, “Running is a good walk spoiled.” I subscribe to that theory. I’m a numbers nerd. That’s why I love my Fitbit. ...
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Curiosity
Curiosity is a car-sized rover that NASA built to explore the Gale crater on the red planet as part of the space agency’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. The rover was launched from Cape Canaveral in November 2011 and landed on Mars nine months later in August 2012. What did we ...
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Helpfulness
Over the course of his thirty-year career in public television, Fred Rogers taught us about ourselves, others, and the world around us. The messages he shared on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood helped us feel good about who we are, with our relationships with others, and how to wonder and learn. As ...
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Dependability
The Polar Express is one of my favorite Christmas movies. The film scores points with me on two fronts. First, it’s based on a children’s book by Grand Rapids native Chris Van Allsburg. Second, they get an “A” for effort for their early use of computer animation. Some people say ...
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff is the story of the beginnings of the U.S. space program and the first seven Mercury astronauts. These original seven American astronauts were announced by NASA on April 9, 1959. It was clear from the beginning that no one had the first clue how to put a ...
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Revel Celebrates 10 Years
In the fall of 2010, we were looking for the right way to announce Revel to the world. In our case, the world mainly consisted of Muskegon and the surrounding communities. We’d started planning behind the scenes, but no one outside of our close circle knew about Revel. Then I ...
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Five Biggest Marketing Mistakes Manufacturers are Making in the COVID-19 Economy
U.S. manufacturing production dipped 19.7 percent in April 2020 compared to the previous year, according to Federal Reserve figures. Although output has started to rebound, many manufacturers still aren’t back to their pre-COVID levels due to the global economic downturn. The current crisis has led to unprecedented changes in industrial ...
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The ABC’s of Remote Selling for Manufacturers
People from all walks of life were left scrambling to adjust to working remotely when coronavirus hit the United States like a Mike Tyson left hook. Six months later, only 26% of the U.S. labor force is working on their business premises according to Stanford University economist Nicholas Bloom.
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