Randall Huft
Randall Huft is president and creative director of the Innovation Agency. He discovered what works, what doesn’t, and what steps must be taken to achieve sales goals and gain market share while working with blue-chip companies including AT&T, United Airlines, IBM, Walgreen’s, American Express, Toyota, and Disney. Inov8.us
Randall Huft Asks, ‘Where Have All the Protest Songs Gone?’
I grew up in a time of social unrest and political protest. My parents were antiwar activists and involved in the civil...
How History Is Painted Over
Many years ago, I worked at a major-market television station that was steeped in history. In 1928, as one of the first...
Can an Economic Downturn Present Opportunities for Business Growth?
I am not the world’s biggest optimist. I just take comfort in facts over fiction. And the facts are that these crazy...
Marketing Cancer: Consumer Advocates Say Patients Pay the Real Price
A friend recently was diagnosed with cancer. When you first hear the “C word,” life suddenly changes. The diagnosis creates fear, confusion,...
Our Extraordinary Moment
It is becoming more readily apparent that despite our collective wishes, things are not going to return to any semblance of our...
Survival Instincts and Lies from the Top: How Crises Alter Human Behavior
By now, you probably have experienced the long lines and empty shelves at grocery and warehouse stores. Or you may have tried...
Fake News, Media Panic, and the Viral Marketing of an Actual Virus
By the time this column is published it may seem pointless, as the Zombie COVID-19 Apocalypse has consumed most of the world....
Emotional Advertising Has Become the Cornerstone of Branding
As a nation, we came together for a few brief hours. We set aside our political, cultural, economic, and demographic differences, and...
The Second Greatest Story Ever Sold
A few months ago, I wrote a piece titled “The Greatest Story Ever Sold,” which became one of the more popular of...
What’s in a Name? According to Marketing Experts, Everything.
In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet suggests a name does not determine the nature of the thing to which it...
