Pack Your Trade Show Survival Kit for the Trade Show Season

Before all the fall shows begin, it is important to pack your trade show survival kit. Here are the must-have items for the Map Your Show (MYS) team.

Amy Elam, Marketing and Communications Manager

How Best-Practice Segmentation Delivers Faster and More Profitable Growth

There are many approaches to customer and market segmentation. The best method will depend on the business and its goals. This article explores 4 approaches to segmentation, 5 steps to create a successful customer segmentation model, 3 key data considerations, and 5 segmentation best practices. Note: Anyone in the Gardner community who uses GW17Lucky will receive a 17% discount on The Market and Customer Segmentation Workbook. It will only be good for this workbook and will be effective from February 20th through St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th, midnight central time. It will automatically expire at that time.
3 Major Trends in Manufacturing (And They All Begin with “A”)

Peter Zelinski, Editor-in-Chief of Additive Manufacturing and Modern Machine Shop, sees 3 big, major, long-term trends that continue to reshape manufacturing.
Understanding Brand Affinity

An approach that seems to help understand customer behavior regarding brand loyalty and insistence is the work done by experts who look at customer brand involvement as a combination of involvement and emotional content. An understanding of customer behavior finds that insistence for brands will vary based on either the brand's personality or the brand's reflection of the buyer's personality. There is an important distinction between identification with a brand and a belief that the brand identifies with you.