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The 2023 Adventure Staff Picks

In Thoughts by Sam Voss

Some of these items are on our Wish Lists. Others are going to friends and family. Here are things to explore as we go into 2024. PAPERLIKE IPAD SCREEN PROTECTOR Write and draw on your iPad just like you would on paper. Take neater notes. Create better art.- Abby, Associate Creative Director << paperlike.com 2024 BIG PICTURE CALENDAR Plan the whole year’s worth of adventures, in one well-designed view.- Jenna, Associate Creative Director schoolhouse.com >> BIG MO DOWN KIDS SLEEPING BAG The perfect

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Changing the Hierarchy – Moving Beyond Maslow’s Self-centered Marketing Theory

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Today, over half of American consumers (62%) believe our country will not make it through our social crisis without brands playing a critical role in addressing the challenges we face. Learn how brands can become bigger than their “corporate self” to be successful in a new, evolving marketplace. When Abraham Maslow developed his hierarchy of needs, he focused on European and Western social values that were embedded with capitalistic beliefs of individual “survival of the fittest”

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Explore Minnesota + Adventure Win a Mercury Award for Best In Broadcast at the 2021 ESTO Awards

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When COVID-19 disrupted the world, destination marketers faced a unique challenge: how do we support our destination responsibly and authentically connect with our audiences and their travel dreams. The Adventure team rallied with the ambition that we could aim to better understand it with real-time data to inform and inspire our strategies. We got to work and developed a proprietary COVID-19 scoring model, allowing us to actively monitor varying COVID levels across markets. We developed

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Adventure Awarded Best Place to Work

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Life is a journey. At Adventure, it’s a rewarding one. Every day, we have the honor of working with some of the most innovative and adventurous companies in the nation. Today though, we stop to celebrate our agency for being honored as a Best Place to Work in 2020 by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal — the Twin Cities’ longest-running awards program that recognizes great workplaces.We know we cannot get where we’re going alone. We thank

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The Future for Active Lifestyle Brands Post COVID-19

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COVID-19 has created a global humanitarian, health and economic crisis that has drastically changed our lives. Knowing things will never be quite the same, we’re in an extremely emotional and challenging environment. But to reach what’s in front of you, you must let go of what’s behind you. It’s time to inhale the future and exhale the past. Understanding emerging consumer perspectives and proven recession marketing strategies provide an opportunity to better engage with consumers

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Explore Minnesota & True Media Win Best of Show at AdFed’s Media Innovation Awards

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True Media, a media strategy and communications company, is excited to announce their recent Best of Show win at AdFed’s Media Innovation Awards – or Minnies – for work done on behalf of client Explore Minnesota, and its Spring/Summer 2019 campaign. The winning marketing strategy was co-developed by Adventure Creative and True Media. The Explore Minnesota Spring/Summer 2019 campaign was an audience-first, consumer-focused approach that broke down traditional regional marketing boundaries and opened a national enthusiast audience by connecting

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From Me to We – Community Brands and the Future Role of the Brand Manager

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A healthy brand community used to be considered a metric to determine brand loyalty. Today, nurturing your community has proven to be the most valuable element in your business-building strategy. Almost 70 percent of the recent $13 billion acquisition price for Whole Foods was derived from goodwill, suggesting Amazon paid more for its brand community than existing assets. This is not unusual, as a company’s brand or community goodwill can be around 80% of the