Mississippi Business Journal » Chris Ray http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:51:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 State ad agencies tackle changing marketplace with innovative strategies http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/26/state-ad-agencies-tackle-changing-marketplace-with-innovative-strategies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=state-ad-agencies-tackle-changing-marketplace-with-innovative-strategies http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/26/state-ad-agencies-tackle-changing-marketplace-with-innovative-strategies/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:02:43 +0000 Becky Gillette http://msbusiness.com/?p=73942 Recently when Viking Range Corp. was bought by a much larger company, Middleby Corp., marketing campaigns that had been handled by the Ramey Agency were suspended. That type of merger of a Mississippi-based company with a larger company based in another state is a long-established trend that can lead to loss of work for advertising [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/26/state-ad-agencies-tackle-changing-marketplace-with-innovative-strategies/feed/ 0 Ray kept train on tracks http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/11/ray-kept-train-on-tracks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ray-kept-train-on-tracks http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/11/ray-kept-train-on-tracks/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:00:43 +0000 Martin Willoughby http://msbusiness.com/?p=45847 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the case Jacobellis v. Ohio was opining on a pornography censorship case and famously wrote, “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [pornography]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/11/ray-kept-train-on-tracks/feed/ 1 Experts: Don’t avoid social media due to fear of negative comments http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/05/01/experts-don%e2%80%99t-avoid-social-media-due-to-fear-of-negative-comments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=experts-don%25e2%2580%2599t-avoid-social-media-due-to-fear-of-negative-comments http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/05/01/experts-don%e2%80%99t-avoid-social-media-due-to-fear-of-negative-comments/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 06:01:56 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=40654 Companies that have not yet waded into the waters of social media often fear negative customer comments. But Jackson area advertising gurus agree that the biggest social media risk is not engaging and monitoring what customers are already saying about you. Beth Kander, who just transitioned from copy writer to social media director at Mad [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/05/01/experts-don%e2%80%99t-avoid-social-media-due-to-fear-of-negative-comments/feed/ 1 Ole Miss rolls out new physical mascot http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/04/17/ole-miss-rolls-out-new-physical-mascot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ole-miss-rolls-out-new-physical-mascot http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/04/17/ole-miss-rolls-out-new-physical-mascot/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:00:20 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=39936 A children’s hospital is probably as safe a place as any for the public debut of something as controversial as the Rebel Black Bear, Ole Miss’ new on-field mascot. So that’s exactly where Rebel showed up April 5 for his introduction. Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children in Jackson hosted the event, which was “great [...]

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