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		<title>What&#8217;s in a name?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PSFK has a post this morning regarding the conference in Los Angeles. At this conference, the group has agreed to drop the term &#8220;marketing&#8221; from the agenda. The reason the article cites is that the PSFK team and attendees believe marketing is too limiting a descriptor. The conference is about ideas and trends.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PSFK has a <a href="http://www.psfk.com/2007/07/psfk-conference-los-angeles-dropping-the-word-marketing.html">post</a> this morning regarding the conference in Los Angeles. At this conference, the group has agreed to drop the term &#8220;marketing&#8221; from the agenda. The reason the article cites is that the PSFK team and attendees believe marketing is too limiting a descriptor. The conference is about ideas and trends.</p>
<p>It brings up an interesting point for me. For the last five years of my career, I&#8217;ve wrestled with this same issue. In the two years I&#8217;ve been with GCG, for example, we have described ourselves as a &#8220;full service advertising agency with special expertise in (healthcare, business-to-business).&#8221; However, we do so much more than just advertising and design. We are consultants. We help write business plans. We create sales tactics. We write software solutions.</p>
<p>Seems to me, at the end of the day, we are about solving problems. It just happens our training and experience is filtered through a lens of creative communications.</p>
<p>What is a succinct way to describe what we do when talking with current clients and prospects? What is the cocktail party description? Any suggestions would be more than welcomed.</p>
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