Walter Pike
PiKE | New Marketing
The Digital Academy
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Brands in an always on, always connected world
Monday 25 October 2010
Why almost everything you think you
know about BRANDING is wrong.
in an always on always
connected world
Monday 25 October 2010
I was an orange farmer
•Ad man
•Marketer
•Academic
@walterpike
Monday 25 October 2010
Wow - This has moved to
the front line
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• Reminder of what branding is.
• To create a series of associations in the
minds of consumers - that leads to
preference.
Associations in the minds of customers that
lead to preference.
What is Branding?
Monday 25 October 2010
Consumer Based
Brand Equity
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It’s what you feel
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He is the Brand
Monday 25 October 2010
Mass Marketing - Average stuff for
average people
The industrial model - Scale
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Buy eyeballs . . .and
interrupt
Photo by Bill on Capitol Hill
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Getting Noticed
The
Communication
Problem
Relevance
Originality
Impact
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Share of Voice =
Share of mind =
Share of Market
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We bought eyeballs - as many as we could.
Monday 25 October 2010
Management
and
Marketing
are man
made
inventions.
Monday 25 October 2010
SORRY...
THIS MODEL IS BROKEN.
None of the assumptions on which its based
work anymore!
Monday 25 October 2010
The Internet
Happened
and if you think its a channel ...
Monday 25 October 2010
People wont be segmented:
They organise themeselves into
groups - communities.
and decide where and how they
will interact with brands.
Monday 25 October 2010
They trust thier
friends and
people like them.
They don't trust
advertising and PR
Monday 25 October 2010
Concept of geography
has changed.
Monday 25 October 2010
The really interesting thing is
that people talk to each other
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Clay Shirky
Monday 25 October 2010
Photo by DRB62 on Flickr
Media is no longer a source of
information.
It’s a place of coordination.
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Power
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•The tools don’t work
•They arent listening
•You can’t even build
associations.
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• So what do we do?
So what do we do now?
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The Branding
Prize is at
the pinnacle
Relationships
Monday 25 October 2010
Control is an illusion
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Think like a farmer
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Brand Husbandry
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Listen
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Understand
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• Build a brand experience.
• Every touchpoint
Build an experience
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Build a Fan Club
seanmcgrath on Flickr
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who plays what role
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Activate
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You can’t force but you can
guide - by building a culture
Brand husbandry
Monday 25 October 2010
Forget media concepts of volume.
OTS are irrelevant.
Only quality and connections are important.
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precisely delivered advertising
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So we dont need this stuff
•No need to interrupt
Monday 25 October 2010
Thank you Cell C for providing
such a great case study
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• A campaign that says - trust
us
• What better idea than to
mislead people.
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Making sense of brands in
an always on always
connected world.
Monday 25 October 2010

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