How to stay relevant in the shortest time possible (My reading list)
How do you stay relevant? Here is a list of essential resources from Mark Schaefer.
Is this the worst marketing tactic ever?
Companies intentionally taking customers to their breaking point? Can this be real? Believe it. Marketing is whacked out.
How employee protest power is transforming corporate culture
Establishing corporate culture has always been a management duty but that is changing as employees take to the streets to protest company policies and sales strategies.
How industries are being disrupted through stories
This industry is being disrupted through stories. Is it sustainable, and what does this strategy mean to you?
Video everywhere: Exploring marketing ubiquity
Video everywhere is a new social strategy from Gatorade discussed on the Marketing Companion podcast.
Marketers must stop doing what people hate.
If you’re a fan of my book Marketing Rebellion: The Most Human Company Wins, you’ll know that I advocate a movement toward a human-centered approach to marketing. And the first step in that process is to STOP DOING WHAT PEOPLE HATE. Sounds, simple, right? It’s not. Marketers are under constant pressure to do things that […]
Marketing without measurement in a world of malignant complexity
In a world of malignant complexity, we may have to grow comfortable with marketing without forecasting or reliable measurement.
So much social media community, so alone.
Del Williams was at the center of my social media community and many others. But in the end, it didn’t matter much.
Big company or small: Advertising at a crossroads
[podcast_player] That photo? An explanation is coming, I promise. But first an observation. I always follow the deliberations at the annual Cannes Lions Festival. It’s an opulent, sun-drenched gathering of advertisers, marketers, and creatives but it also usually unearths some important themes and trends. This year, one quote stuck out for me. A television advertising […]
Why breaking up Big Tech won’t work
The notion of breaking up big tech is picking up political momentum but it won’t work because deep down, people like things as they are.