Category Archives: Agency News

Managing the Wobbly Economic Recovery

MENG Evening Marketing Leadership Town Hall Meeting January 21
Marketing leaders are in the line of fire. We’re on the road to the New Normal, but it promises to be a wobbly and unpredictable economic recovery. Fully exposed to the volatile pressures of an uneven recovery, marketing leaders must learn to navigate the change. This wobbling [...]

Changing Minds, Changing Mindsets

The release of the 10.2% unemployment figure last week vividly illustrates the wobbly recovery we’re navigating, and challenges marketing leaders to change their minds and mindsets necessary to navigating the new normal of this recovering economy. I suspect anyone in the trenches of business or marketing is experiencing just that, first-hand. It’s certainly been my experience. This is an opportunity for marketers (and marketing-minded business managers’), whose greatest strength is his or her ability to change the way they think, the way they organize their perception of the world.

Share the Health: Torque Helps Northwestern Memorial Hospital promote transparency

NMH tapped Torque to spread the word about the publication of their complete quality report card on their new website. The online advertising campaign is running on national sites, including WebMD, ABC7 and Yahoo.
Objectives for the campaign are to generate awareness for the quality report card, bring visitors the site, and to establish the site [...]

How much time to connect?

I believe connecting with audiences is a qualitative experience. That said, “you only have one chance to make a first impression,” and that impression is made pretty quickly.
Torque is collaborating with our friends and partners at Fig Media, to explore the question of speed, quality, time and place for making audience connections through media. Fig [...]

Midway through 2009, where is your year headed?

It’s been a busy first half, and now is the time pause for a moment before the July 4th holiday to take stock. I’ve been hearing more people claim that their companies have scraped the bottom [expletives omitted] and are now on the upswing in the economic cycle. Great news — we feel that, too!
We’ve [...]