Posts Tagged ‘marketing’

TweetThe Day Always Starts at Zero. It takes between 20 and 50 impressions, depending on whose data you believe, before a message gets through to a B2B buyer. It makes this hill a lot steeper when we realize that for many brands, each ad viewed and sales email received delivers a slightly different message. Impressions, […]

TweetIn Stephen Denny and Paul Leinberger’s new book, Unfiltered Marketing: 5 Rules to Win Back Trust, Credibility, and Customers in a Digitally Distracted World, they interview Adidas’s former global creative officer Paul Gaudio on co-creation, finding unexpected cultural intersections, and building raw-ness into the design process at a 23-billion-euro global brand. The following is an edited excerpt. In-Process as cultural […]

In a recent interview on the Brand Fast-Trackers podcast, Jabra North America president Pete Fox described how applying the Killing Giants Framework delivered $20 million in incremental pipeline sales to his company. This is a great case study in “seizing the narrative.” Give it a listen.

TweetDon’t Buy This Jacket. Outdoor athletes – the real high achievers, in particular – understand Patagonia’s tagline. And Patagonia’s tagline clearly shows that they understand their core market to a remarkable degree.  That’s nice, for a change. Outdoor enthusiasts do things that the rest of us don’t. They spend time on mountains. In winter. On […]

Tweet  Why do we even make commercials anymore? Will it sell more burgers? Who can say. That’s frankly all that matters in the world of Jack In The Box advertising, as I’m sure their franchisees would agree. So let me briefly step into the somewhat unfamiliar role of Ad Critic – a sub-species of social […]