My company is a Poland Spring customer. We receive frequent deliveries of their 5-gallon water bottles for various water coolers stationed around our office. Last week, I noticed that the bottle had changed. It is now made of a darker blue plastic, and has a slightly different shape. When I looked closer, I saw that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘green marketing’
Poland Spring’s Missed Green Marketing Opportunity: A Discussion of Their New Eco-Sense Bottle
Posted in Data/Report, Green Marketing, sustainability, tagged Cone Inc., eco-logo, green marketing, greenwashing, Poland Spring, Terrachoice, transparency on April 25, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Report from Target Marketing “Green Marketing Without Greenwashing” Webinar
Posted in External Resources, PR, tagged FTC, green marketing, greenwashing, paper, Target Marketing, Terrachoice, webinar on April 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I had the opportunity to serve as a panelist last week in Target Marketing Magazine’s webinar, “Green Marketing Without Greenwashing – How to legally and ethically back up your environmental claims.” I spoke alongside an excellent group of panelists who covered a wide range of key issues around green marketing [they included Scot Case, Vice [...]
Green mail in a down economy
Posted in Data/Report, green printing, tagged conscious consumers, going green, green marketing, recycled, Renewable Energy, soy inks, Sustainable Marketing, wind power on March 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Target Marketing recently published an article titled “The Return of the Green Mail Debate,” which I wanted to share. The article’s premise is that during this economic downturn, sustainability is less important to marketers, and that once the economy rebounds there will be more interest from companies in being green in their marketing efforts. I [...]
Preview of Graphic Design USA’s Green Issue
Posted in External Resources, tagged GDUSA, green design, green marketing, green printing, grossman marketing group, sustainability on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Graphic Design USA, a leading industry magazine, published a Green Issue last fall which included some very useful resources for marketing professionals. They are releasing this year’s issue on October 15th. They distributed a preview e-newsletter yesterday and I was excited that my firm, Grossman Marketing Group, was included along with some other excellent design [...]
Direct Mail Insight: Green Envelopes and the Big Picture
Posted in External Resources, green printing, paper, sustainability, tagged best practices, Cone Inc., conscious consumers, going green, green marketing, green printing, greenwashing, grossman marketing group, soy inks, Sustainable Marketing, Target Marketing on June 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Last month, Target Marketing Magazine published an article on trends surrounding environmentally-friendly envelopes – I was on vacation at the time so I didn’t get a chance to pass it along then. Here’s a link to the article. As I’ve written on a number of occasions, “green” envelopes are an important part of an organization’s [...]
Recent award for green marketing leadership
Posted in External Resources, PR, sustainability, tagged green marketing, green printing, grossman marketing group, NEDMA, sustainability, wind power, zipcar on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was honored and humbled to receive the 2009 New England Direct Marketing Association Prodigy Award, for my work in the green marketing and sustainability space. I received the award at the NEDMA 2009 Annual Conference held earlier this month at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. According to NEDMA, the Prodigy Award is given each [...]
The critical importance of transparency as part of sustainable communications – Ad Age
Posted in Data/Report, External Resources, sustainability, tagged advertising age, clownfish, conscious consumers, green marketing, sustainability on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As most of those who read Sustainable Ink regularly know, I’ve been an advocate for transparency in everything individuals and companies do. I’m pleased to share an article that Diana Verde Nieto (CEO of Clownfish, a sustainability and communications consultancy based in the U.K.) wrote for Advertising Age, titled: The Four C’s of Survival: How [...]
Report on Boston Business Journal Green Business Summit
Posted in External Resources, PR, sustainability, tagged Boston Business Journal, environment, going green, green marketing, green printing, grossman marketing group, wind power, zipcar on May 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
As I wrote last month, my firm was honored to receive a green business award at the Boston Business Journal Green Business Summit. We were especially excited to be the only firm in the marketing services space to be recognized. Many thanks to our client, Zipcar, for nominating us. The summit was held last Friday, [...]
Preview: BrightTALK Green Marketing Summit
Posted in PR, tagged green marketing, green printing, sustainability on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was flattered to be invited to present to the BrightTALK Green Marketing Summit tomorrow (Friday, 4/24). BrightTALK is aiming to become the “YouTube for Business,” meaning they arrange targeted meetings/summits online and then store the webcasts so people can watch them in the future (upon registration). According to the BrightTALK site, “This summit will [...]
Ad Age: Green-Marketing Revolution Defies Economic Downturn
Posted in Data/Report, External Resources, sustainability, tagged advertising age, conscious consumers, going green, green marketing, Poll, Seventh Generation, sustainability, Sustainable Marketing on April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This week’s Advertising Age features a very interesting and timely (Earth Day is this week) article, titled “Green-Marketing Revolution Defies Economic Downturn.” The writer, Jack Neff, starts off the article with the following statement: “Green marketing is turning out to be surprisingly recession-proof.” Neff points to product launch and sales data that indicate that even [...]
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