Topic: marketing
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Empowerment marketing: Advertising to humans as more than just selfish machines
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 · Topics: advertising, brand-strategy, marketing, storytelling
From FastCompany: For decades, companies have made you feel inadequate in order to get you to buy things. In an excerpt from his new book Story Wars Jonah Sachs traces the history of the growing field of marketing products in ways that make us better people and the world a better place. · Go to Empowerment marketing: Advertising to humans as more than just selfish machines →
Marketing the arts to death: How lazy language is killing culture
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 · Topics: arts-marketing, marketing
Book by Trevor O’Donnell: If you’re looking for ways to increase earned revenue without increasing marketing costs, this book is for you. It’s a fun-to-read, down-to-earth, slightly naughty critique of the way we artsy types talk to the world around us, and a useful guide for speaking more persuasively to new audiences. Plus, it’s an e-book so it only costs six bucks. Trevor guarantees you’ll make that back many times over on your next ad or email! · Go to Marketing the arts to death: How lazy language is killing culture →
Why your marketing doesn’t make sense to everyone
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 · Topics: customer-experience, learning-styles, marketing
From Mind Power Marketing: When you communicate with people, they receive the information using one of five sensory modalities – visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory and gustatory (or in everyday language – pictures, sounds, feelings, smells and tastes). And, in creating an ‘Internal Representation’ inside our mind, we use the same sensory modalities – with the addition of one more – ‘auditory digital’ or self-talk. However, it’s crucial to recognize that individuals experience those senses in different proportions. Some people may pay more attention to their visual experiences, while others may find their feelings (whether internal or external) more important. In communicating with somebody, it’s therefore important that you’re able to relate to all of the senses. · Go to Why your marketing doesn’t make sense to everyone →
My Communications Director is an idiot
Sunday, August 5, 2012 · Topics: communication, leadership-development, marketing, public-relations
From Kivi Leroux Miller: I’m friends with many nonprofit program and research directors who confide in me about their various scuffles with communications or fundraising staff in their organizations. Nothing strange there.
What I do find a little surprising is how often I will meet a program or policy director, or even an executive director, for the first time, and upon learning what I do for a living, they will say, “Ugh. Our communications director is a complete idiot.” · Go to My Communications Director is an idiot →
How to be a more coherent marketer
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 · Topics: chaos, marketing
From strategy+business: With so much in flux and so much at stake, marketers need to be strategic when it comes to managing their resources and teams. A recent survey highlights the challenges facing today’s marketing organizations, and reveals a path to differentiation. · Go to How to be a more coherent marketer →
Philip Kotler on marketing
Friday, May 11, 2012 · Topics: brand-strategy, emotions-in-advertising, marketing
Philip Kotler is the undisputed heavyweight champion of marketing. He’s authored or co-authored around 70 books, addressed huge audiences around the world and consulted some of the biggest brands. Three years ago, he was ranked the world’s fourth most influential management guru by the Financial Times; this year, the Wall Street Journal ranked him the · Watch video →
Defining earned, owned and paid media
Friday, April 13, 2012 · Topics: interactive-marketing, marketing, marketing-strategy, media
From Sean Corcoran at Forrester: The terms “earned, owned and paid (aka bought) media” have become very popular in the interactive marketing space today. In fact, taken together they can be applied as a simple way for interactive marketers to categorize and ultimately prioritize all of the media options they have today.
Yet as popular as these themes have become, they’re often loosely applied across the industry and essentially no one is speaking the same language. Therefore we just published research defining each type of media and providing interactive marketers with prescriptive advice on how to best apply them. Here’s a summary of how we defined each type of online media and their roles. · Go to Defining earned, owned and paid media →
A brief history of marketing and why the new Facebook matters
Friday, April 13, 2012 · Topics: facebook, marketing
From Smart Blogs: Marketing never sits still for long. At a South by Southwest session, co-led by American Express OPEN and Skillshare, Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow gave his take on the shifting paradigm of marketing and how Facebook’s features are set to challenge the field all over again. · Go to A brief history of marketing and why the new Facebook matters →
