Brand strategy consists of three core components and tapping into an infinite amount of human emotions.
Presented as part of Griffin Farley's Beautiful Minds 2020 program.
60 Minute Brand Strategist: Extended and updated hard cover NOW available.Idris Mootee
This book includes the very latest thinking on branding and brand strategy. It has been published in different many languages and use by top global brands to train their brand managers. New updated hard cover version is not available from Amazon May 2013
Pls view in full screen mode. Published in more than 5 languages.
How to Create a Killer Creative Brief with Wild AlchemyUnited Adworkers
United Adworkers had the honor of hosting Lynette Xanders with Wild Alchemy to share her incredible knowledge and insights on "How to Create a Killer Creative Brief". For more information about Wild Alchemy and Lynette Xanders, visit WildAlchemy.com.
A Planner's Playbook - Everything I learned about planning at Miami Ad School...Sytse Kooistra
After being in advertising for 4 years, I needed some new guidance and inspiration as a strategist. And that is exactly what I found: I spent the summer of 2013 with 17 other (soon to be) planners from all over the world attending the Account Planning Bootcamp at Miami Ad School New York.
Thanks to the 38 industry heroes and instructors that shared their knowledge and coached us in those 3 months, I learned more than I ever could imagine about planning.
'A Planner's Playbook' is my attempt to summarize all that wisdom in 30 short nuggets (or plays, to stick with the metaphor of a playbook) and share it with you. I left out all the difficult frameworks and models and kept in simple by just stating, in my opinion (and in that of my instructors), what a planner should be and do.
Enjoy reading.
The Creative Brief frames the strategy and positioning so your Agency can creatively express the brand promise through communication.
1, Marketing Execution must impact the brand’s consumers in a way that puts your brand in a stronger business position. The Creative Brief is the bridge between the brand strategy and the execution.
2. Through our Brand Positioning workshop, you will have all the homework on the brand needed to set up the transformation into a succinct 1-page Creative Brief that will focus, inspire and challenge a creative team to make great work.
3. The hands-on Creative Brief workshop explores best in class methods for writing the brief’s objective, target market, consumer insights, main message stimulus and the desired consumer response.
4. Brand Leaders walk away from the session with a ready-to-execute Creative Brief.
Jonathan Lee, Managing Director, Brand Strategy, and Ken Allard, Managing Director, Business Strategy at HUGE, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity 2," the VCU Brandcenter's Executive Education program for account planning on June 24th at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, VA.
This is the presentation that I gave to the Young Planners at Cannes 2014. The data herein is taken from survey distributed through @cheiluk, @yellif and @cr
60 Minute Brand Strategist: Extended and updated hard cover NOW available.Idris Mootee
This book includes the very latest thinking on branding and brand strategy. It has been published in different many languages and use by top global brands to train their brand managers. New updated hard cover version is not available from Amazon May 2013
Pls view in full screen mode. Published in more than 5 languages.
How to Create a Killer Creative Brief with Wild AlchemyUnited Adworkers
United Adworkers had the honor of hosting Lynette Xanders with Wild Alchemy to share her incredible knowledge and insights on "How to Create a Killer Creative Brief". For more information about Wild Alchemy and Lynette Xanders, visit WildAlchemy.com.
A Planner's Playbook - Everything I learned about planning at Miami Ad School...Sytse Kooistra
After being in advertising for 4 years, I needed some new guidance and inspiration as a strategist. And that is exactly what I found: I spent the summer of 2013 with 17 other (soon to be) planners from all over the world attending the Account Planning Bootcamp at Miami Ad School New York.
Thanks to the 38 industry heroes and instructors that shared their knowledge and coached us in those 3 months, I learned more than I ever could imagine about planning.
'A Planner's Playbook' is my attempt to summarize all that wisdom in 30 short nuggets (or plays, to stick with the metaphor of a playbook) and share it with you. I left out all the difficult frameworks and models and kept in simple by just stating, in my opinion (and in that of my instructors), what a planner should be and do.
Enjoy reading.
The Creative Brief frames the strategy and positioning so your Agency can creatively express the brand promise through communication.
1, Marketing Execution must impact the brand’s consumers in a way that puts your brand in a stronger business position. The Creative Brief is the bridge between the brand strategy and the execution.
2. Through our Brand Positioning workshop, you will have all the homework on the brand needed to set up the transformation into a succinct 1-page Creative Brief that will focus, inspire and challenge a creative team to make great work.
3. The hands-on Creative Brief workshop explores best in class methods for writing the brief’s objective, target market, consumer insights, main message stimulus and the desired consumer response.
4. Brand Leaders walk away from the session with a ready-to-execute Creative Brief.
Jonathan Lee, Managing Director, Brand Strategy, and Ken Allard, Managing Director, Business Strategy at HUGE, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity 2," the VCU Brandcenter's Executive Education program for account planning on June 24th at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, VA.
This is the presentation that I gave to the Young Planners at Cannes 2014. The data herein is taken from survey distributed through @cheiluk, @yellif and @cr
50 planners to watch in 2014 - The Planning SalonJulian Cole
Twitter list of the 50 Planners - https://twitter.com/emma_hines/top-50-planners/members
thanks @emma_hines and @E_for_M
50 planners to watch in 2014 was picked by The Planning Salon.The list is a mix of the top planning talent from across the globe as well as the next generation of planners. The list has diverse mix of planners from big markets like London and New York to emerging markets like Athens and Cape Town.
The Planning Salon is a platform for all planners around the world to meet and learn from our industry's greatest minds. It was started in 2013 to showcase some of the biggest stars of the industry, guests such as Gareth Kay, Rob Campbell and Heather LeFevre. Check out the interviews here; http://theplanningsalon.com/
While different people will have different approaches to developing and managing brands, we believe there are some fundamental constructs and truths about brand strategy that need to be considered in any brand strategy process. We\'ve developed a short presentation on some of the fundamentals of brand strategy.
This is a presentation that I gave to a USF Masters of Business Administration class on Brand Planning for Clients. My hope was to share some thoughts with the future generation of clients on planning, positioning, relevance and new product development.
Workshop for Brand Leaders to help define your brand positioning statement, brand concept and organizing big idea.
https://beloved-brands.com/brand-positioning/
Rick James Model for selling innovative ideasJulian Cole
This is a model that should be helpful in selling in innovative/non-traditional ideas that are usually quite hard to sell to clients/bosses.
@juliancole
Brand Archetypes: The Science Behind Brand PersonalityStephen Houraghan
We all have an emotional connection with a brand where the alternative simply won't do. Your connection with that brand is likely on a human level. Whether they speak your language, champion a cause you believe in or represent who you are, the connection is more than just transactional. The world's most loved brands all connect with us using a similar framework. This framework is based on decades of scientific research and has its roots in Greek Mythology. This Framework is Archetypes. www.iconicfox.com.au/brand-archetypes
You can now download the presentation directly from Slideshare.
Here are 17 of the best free online tools for Digital Strategists to help cultivate killer insights on consumers, competitors and the industry. In this toolbox we you will find how to use each tool with an example insight drawn for the client, as well as each of their benefits and limitations.
The tools helps to conduct Consumer Research, Category Research, Discourse Analysis and Environmental analysis.
How do brands really grow? How do brands grow in a radically disrupted internet economy? We explore brand growth in today’s digital world, with perspectives from Nicholas Lovell, Lionel Benbassat of Eurostar, and the Arena strategy team.
Top 10 Planning Departments in Advertising ShortlistJulian Cole
For more strategy resources sign up to Planning Dirty at https://www.planningdirty.com/newsletter
A common problem for planners moving markets is understanding the best agencies to work for. With a great list of international planners in the Planning Dirty newsletter group I thought I would ask the planners who they thought was the best agency to work for.
I compiled the first 10 agencies for the shortlist by analyzing the planning (IPA, Effies, Jay Chiats) and creative awards (Gunn Report) from the last three year looking at the agencies that consistently perform well.
I am making a shortlist of 20, so would love to get recommendations on agencies that you think should make the list.
Next week on the newsletter through an anonymous vote, I’ll put out the poll and report back the results. Sign up to the Planning Dirty newsletter to vote and get the best planning tools and resources fortnightly. bit.ly/PlanningDirty
This is our brand management training workshop on brand positioning. Your brand positioning statement defines the target market, consumer benefits, both functional and emotional, as well as support points.
Many brands are misguided by so many notions around and about brand strategy. Here's a brief checklist for you to know if you are approaching your brand strategy right.
You can now download the presentation directly from Slideshare.
*Disclaimer this is just my imaginary example of a Comms Plan for the Puma work and not the actual strategy that was created by Droga5 for Puma. I had nothing to do with that plan and am just a fan of their work.
What is Comms Planning? is a presentation that provides a clear answer of the role of the Comms Planner within an Advertising Agency. I use the example of the Puma Social campaign to prove the point.
A startup’s guide to brand strategy: 4 steps to bootstrap human-centered desi...Startupbootcamp
This workshop walks through 4 step by step methodologies based on design thinking principles for how to bootstrap customer insights and begin a brand strategy. Each step is illustrated by a concrete example of a brand and UX refresh conducted at Startupbootcamp Istanbul for Benimcep, a secure online-marketplace for people to buy and sell smartphones at a discount and under warranty. Presented in the final month of the accelerator, it serves as a gut-check for entrepreneurs to see how well they understand their target customers and if they built a brand experience based on that understanding.
Presented by: Megan Colgan is co-founder of The GO Project and a mentor and entrepreneur in residence at Startupbootcamp Istanbul 2014 helping with brand development, customer experience design and marketing strategy. (Find her @MegColgan)
Workshop Philosophy:
Empathy is the impetus of great design. Customer empathy—a fundamental understanding of a customer’s values, needs, perceptions and emotions—is at the core of designing a successful product, a successful user experience and it is at the core of designing a successful brand.
Studies like the Stengel 50 and an analysis by co:collective on Storydoing, prove that brands that connect to and deliver human value are more successful in acquiring customers, creating advocates, earning customer loyalty, and performing financially. Such success is rooted in authentic customer connection which requires digging much deeper than aesthetics and tactics. It requires talking to and understanding customers through constant feedback and iterative testing.
Steal This Idea: The Robot Curve / By Marty NeumeierLiquid Agency
Ever wonder why your skills are constantly out of date? Why your company is always falling behind competitors? Why so many jobs and projects are being outsourced? The Robot Curve is a simple model of innovation that shows how new processes, businesses, and technologies continuously destroy old ones as they create new opportunities for wealth. Where are you on the curve?
Planning Hype - Engineering hype before a product launchJulian Cole
For more strategy resources sign up to Planning Dirty at https://www.planningdirty.com/newsletter
The following is a guide for how to create excitement around a product before it has launched.
This is critical for how to market music, movies and games where the first-week window is critical.
The presentation was created by Julian Cole and Melissa Pepers.
Strategy is one of the most abused and misused terms in marketing. When I was a younger, I struggled a lot with that. There are so much opinions out there and it seems like everyone tries contradicting each other on purpose. On the 2nd of October, I got the chance to speak to 50 students at Thomas More Hogeschool and to tell them what I think strategy is and why it is so goddamn necessary in communications, marketing and yes, let's just say the world.
Comments and feedback are definitely welcome.
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN KNOWING AND DOING - PREMIUM ACTIONGUIDE FOR HEALTH &...Tena Taylor (M.A.)
Everything you need to know as a health and wellness expert to start & scale your practice by mastering PARAMOUNT BUSINESS FACTS & unraveling the importance of the UNIQUE ADVISORY IMPRINT! ✨
This guide is leading you through:
🔥How to extract your WHAT (the problem you're solving), pair it up with your WHY (the motivation behind it), and co-create a HOW (your Unique Offering)!
🔥Explaining the difference between thinking about your ideal client and AS YOUR IDEAL CLIENT
🔥Unraveling the IMPORTANCE OF YOUR ADVISORY AUTHENTICITY & embedding it into the overall business plan
and
🔥Extensively elaborating a Step-By-Step process on how to transform selling from a dreadful action into a pleasurable experience!
50 planners to watch in 2014 - The Planning SalonJulian Cole
Twitter list of the 50 Planners - https://twitter.com/emma_hines/top-50-planners/members
thanks @emma_hines and @E_for_M
50 planners to watch in 2014 was picked by The Planning Salon.The list is a mix of the top planning talent from across the globe as well as the next generation of planners. The list has diverse mix of planners from big markets like London and New York to emerging markets like Athens and Cape Town.
The Planning Salon is a platform for all planners around the world to meet and learn from our industry's greatest minds. It was started in 2013 to showcase some of the biggest stars of the industry, guests such as Gareth Kay, Rob Campbell and Heather LeFevre. Check out the interviews here; http://theplanningsalon.com/
While different people will have different approaches to developing and managing brands, we believe there are some fundamental constructs and truths about brand strategy that need to be considered in any brand strategy process. We\'ve developed a short presentation on some of the fundamentals of brand strategy.
This is a presentation that I gave to a USF Masters of Business Administration class on Brand Planning for Clients. My hope was to share some thoughts with the future generation of clients on planning, positioning, relevance and new product development.
Workshop for Brand Leaders to help define your brand positioning statement, brand concept and organizing big idea.
https://beloved-brands.com/brand-positioning/
Rick James Model for selling innovative ideasJulian Cole
This is a model that should be helpful in selling in innovative/non-traditional ideas that are usually quite hard to sell to clients/bosses.
@juliancole
Brand Archetypes: The Science Behind Brand PersonalityStephen Houraghan
We all have an emotional connection with a brand where the alternative simply won't do. Your connection with that brand is likely on a human level. Whether they speak your language, champion a cause you believe in or represent who you are, the connection is more than just transactional. The world's most loved brands all connect with us using a similar framework. This framework is based on decades of scientific research and has its roots in Greek Mythology. This Framework is Archetypes. www.iconicfox.com.au/brand-archetypes
You can now download the presentation directly from Slideshare.
Here are 17 of the best free online tools for Digital Strategists to help cultivate killer insights on consumers, competitors and the industry. In this toolbox we you will find how to use each tool with an example insight drawn for the client, as well as each of their benefits and limitations.
The tools helps to conduct Consumer Research, Category Research, Discourse Analysis and Environmental analysis.
How do brands really grow? How do brands grow in a radically disrupted internet economy? We explore brand growth in today’s digital world, with perspectives from Nicholas Lovell, Lionel Benbassat of Eurostar, and the Arena strategy team.
Top 10 Planning Departments in Advertising ShortlistJulian Cole
For more strategy resources sign up to Planning Dirty at https://www.planningdirty.com/newsletter
A common problem for planners moving markets is understanding the best agencies to work for. With a great list of international planners in the Planning Dirty newsletter group I thought I would ask the planners who they thought was the best agency to work for.
I compiled the first 10 agencies for the shortlist by analyzing the planning (IPA, Effies, Jay Chiats) and creative awards (Gunn Report) from the last three year looking at the agencies that consistently perform well.
I am making a shortlist of 20, so would love to get recommendations on agencies that you think should make the list.
Next week on the newsletter through an anonymous vote, I’ll put out the poll and report back the results. Sign up to the Planning Dirty newsletter to vote and get the best planning tools and resources fortnightly. bit.ly/PlanningDirty
This is our brand management training workshop on brand positioning. Your brand positioning statement defines the target market, consumer benefits, both functional and emotional, as well as support points.
Many brands are misguided by so many notions around and about brand strategy. Here's a brief checklist for you to know if you are approaching your brand strategy right.
You can now download the presentation directly from Slideshare.
*Disclaimer this is just my imaginary example of a Comms Plan for the Puma work and not the actual strategy that was created by Droga5 for Puma. I had nothing to do with that plan and am just a fan of their work.
What is Comms Planning? is a presentation that provides a clear answer of the role of the Comms Planner within an Advertising Agency. I use the example of the Puma Social campaign to prove the point.
A startup’s guide to brand strategy: 4 steps to bootstrap human-centered desi...Startupbootcamp
This workshop walks through 4 step by step methodologies based on design thinking principles for how to bootstrap customer insights and begin a brand strategy. Each step is illustrated by a concrete example of a brand and UX refresh conducted at Startupbootcamp Istanbul for Benimcep, a secure online-marketplace for people to buy and sell smartphones at a discount and under warranty. Presented in the final month of the accelerator, it serves as a gut-check for entrepreneurs to see how well they understand their target customers and if they built a brand experience based on that understanding.
Presented by: Megan Colgan is co-founder of The GO Project and a mentor and entrepreneur in residence at Startupbootcamp Istanbul 2014 helping with brand development, customer experience design and marketing strategy. (Find her @MegColgan)
Workshop Philosophy:
Empathy is the impetus of great design. Customer empathy—a fundamental understanding of a customer’s values, needs, perceptions and emotions—is at the core of designing a successful product, a successful user experience and it is at the core of designing a successful brand.
Studies like the Stengel 50 and an analysis by co:collective on Storydoing, prove that brands that connect to and deliver human value are more successful in acquiring customers, creating advocates, earning customer loyalty, and performing financially. Such success is rooted in authentic customer connection which requires digging much deeper than aesthetics and tactics. It requires talking to and understanding customers through constant feedback and iterative testing.
Steal This Idea: The Robot Curve / By Marty NeumeierLiquid Agency
Ever wonder why your skills are constantly out of date? Why your company is always falling behind competitors? Why so many jobs and projects are being outsourced? The Robot Curve is a simple model of innovation that shows how new processes, businesses, and technologies continuously destroy old ones as they create new opportunities for wealth. Where are you on the curve?
Planning Hype - Engineering hype before a product launchJulian Cole
For more strategy resources sign up to Planning Dirty at https://www.planningdirty.com/newsletter
The following is a guide for how to create excitement around a product before it has launched.
This is critical for how to market music, movies and games where the first-week window is critical.
The presentation was created by Julian Cole and Melissa Pepers.
Strategy is one of the most abused and misused terms in marketing. When I was a younger, I struggled a lot with that. There are so much opinions out there and it seems like everyone tries contradicting each other on purpose. On the 2nd of October, I got the chance to speak to 50 students at Thomas More Hogeschool and to tell them what I think strategy is and why it is so goddamn necessary in communications, marketing and yes, let's just say the world.
Comments and feedback are definitely welcome.
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN KNOWING AND DOING - PREMIUM ACTIONGUIDE FOR HEALTH &...Tena Taylor (M.A.)
Everything you need to know as a health and wellness expert to start & scale your practice by mastering PARAMOUNT BUSINESS FACTS & unraveling the importance of the UNIQUE ADVISORY IMPRINT! ✨
This guide is leading you through:
🔥How to extract your WHAT (the problem you're solving), pair it up with your WHY (the motivation behind it), and co-create a HOW (your Unique Offering)!
🔥Explaining the difference between thinking about your ideal client and AS YOUR IDEAL CLIENT
🔥Unraveling the IMPORTANCE OF YOUR ADVISORY AUTHENTICITY & embedding it into the overall business plan
and
🔥Extensively elaborating a Step-By-Step process on how to transform selling from a dreadful action into a pleasurable experience!
Uncovering Your Unique Value Proposition - MSTATim Miles
If you've spent any time research UVPs or Mission Statements, you've realized two things:
1) Those two terms are fairly interchangeable.
2) They cannot be dictated from the top or an outside agency.
In this talk, we discover how to uncover the unique value inside an organization by leading that organization's members through a series of exercises that develop a meaningful statement which the team owns because they created it.
Finding Charisma: The Secrets To Becoming Design OrientedKelsey Ruger
The phrase design-driven seems to be used a lot these days and companies everywhere are touting their “design-driven culture”. What does that mean? For a lot of companies it means having an awesome design team, simple user experiences or awe inspiring design. The reality is that these views couldn’t be further from the truth. Being design-driven means creating a culture that centers on people and drives a share understanding of what it takes to make your company truly lovable. In this session Kelsey Ruger will share insights on the steps you can take embrace design by systematically making it a part of your company’s culture. You’ll learn the critical components you will need to build and maintain a culture of design.
Rue La La, a leading force in the evolution of online/mobile commerce, is also pushing the bounds of People practices, starting with the Why. This deck was recently personally rolled out to all Rue La La Associates. We hope you dig it.
The Circuit - The Market Has Changed...Have You?The Circuit
Learn a new strategy for selling in tough markets.
With the break down of the financial markets the very interpretation of value has altered; leaving us with in essence, a new market place. Customers behave differently and so must we, in how we sell to them.
93% of what someone thinks about us, our content, our websites, our company, etc., is determined in 3 seconds. Or less.
In that time your marketing messaging has to:
• Arouse someone’s brain
• Pique their curiosity
• Make them disengage their autopilot
• Open a door
• Be original, authentic and memorable
• Earn someone's time and attention
The Value Proposition
The average American adult is subject to between 6,000 and 10,000 marketing messages. A day. To cut through that clutter and capture someone's attention you need pattern disruption. To keep their attention you need relevancy. Combine those two things to supercharge your outreach.
How It Works
3 Second Selling is about creating a vision that becomes your reality. It’s knowing your DNA. It’s knowing your audience. It’s knowing what you want your prospect to do. And then being planful and deliberate about how you’re going to achieve it.
What It Does
3 Second Selling gets your clients or prospects to listen longer. It gets you to the sales process more frequently. It gets your clients and customers to buy more often.
I have been intuitively practicing 3 second selling my entire professional life. I used it as an entertainment reporter to create authentic, original interactions with the likes of Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, and scores of others. I used it as a PR pro to earn coverage for clients on CNN and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. I used it as a business magazine editor to increase circulation of my title by 30%. I used it to become the first-ever American to work as an International DJ for a global entertainment company based in London. And I am constantly using it to get new clients as a consultant.
A new paradigm
The old fashioned ways of telling and selling are over. Our audiences are time-starved and in control like never before, forcing us to work harder and smarter to reach them. You have to communicate - in seconds - why you do what you do and why someone should care. However, even in today’s ROI-powered world, people are powered by emotion, not by reason. Reason leads to conclusion. Emotion leads to action. 3 Second Selling earns you the opportunity to get to that place where buying decisions are made, to eventually become someone people feel as if they know, like and trust. That’s who we do business with.
Creating an Unmistakable Talent Brand and World Class Recruitment TeamMary Pratt
A deep dive into creating an unmistakable Talent Brand and Rock Star Talent Acquisition Department working on focus points including Brand Awareness, Self Awareness, Steps to Creating Talent Brand Strategies, Steps to Rock Start Talent Acquisition Departments with a focus on companies who are doing it such as LV= in the UK and Menlo Innovations in the USA. Hope you enjoy! :)
My Marketing Is Changing workshop has been one of the most popular talks and workshops I have run over the past couple of years. It looks at changes in marketing tech and tactics and what you can do about it
When It Comes to Employee Motivation, One Size Does Not Fit AllITA Group
Trying to motivate your people?
The fact that one size doesn’t fit all makes employee motivation tricky.
And while you can’t force motivation, you can (strategically) inspire it—even among the masses.
Learn more about employee motivation and Motivology—our very own brand of motivation—at https://www.itagroup.com/our-approach.
This Presentation was delivered by Sir Eric Seyram A at the “iSpace Women’s Entrepreneurs” Program. organised by ispace, a technology hub in Accra supporting start ups and in partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs,
The program was a three-week intensive program aimed at women entrepreneurs who are looking to create a winning business proposal and business pitch. Participants were coached by Sir Eric Seyram A and other industry experts on how to write their business proposal and present themselves to potential investors. Some selected business proposals got a sponsored package from iSpace and also a one on one mentoring with few of the leading women in business in Ghana today.
The program run from 1st April to 18th April 2014 within which there were 9 lecture sessions.
The presentation was captioned Carving your Marketing Strategy and sought to orient participants on how they can create value for their customers and other stakeholders to ensure competitiveness, profitability and sustainability.
How to Make the Business Case for Culture & Happiness in the Workplace [Deliv...Delivering Happiness
Over a decade of research shows that happiness in the workplace directly relates with engaged and productive employees. Building a Culture of Happiness is becoming one of the biggest competitive advantages in today’s economy. Happy employees who work with passion and purpose perform at consistently high levels, multiplying their effectiveness and raising business outcomes.
During this webinar, The Good Jobs teams up with Delivering Happiness to show you how YOU can become an advocate for building a Culture of Happiness at work. We know intuitively that happiness matters. After attending this webinar, you will have everything you need to share WHY building a Culture of Happiness has significant value (bottom-line) for your company.
As we think about empowering every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more - we look deeper into understanding what the word 'every' person could mean within the eyes of marketing. We explore design, ideas and provide examples of how brands are focusing on being more inclusive. How different would this world look if all of us could empower every person to achieve more? What new industries, art, medicines, financial services, and world-changing inventions could individuals and communities build and create?
Similar to Brand Strategy 101: The Core of Brand Strategy (20)
Digital marketing is the art and science of promoting products or services using digital channels to reach and engage with potential customers. It encompasses a wide range of online tactics and strategies aimed at increasing brand visibility, driving website traffic, generating leads, and ultimately, converting those leads into customers.
https://nidmindia.com/
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
Mastering Multi-Touchpoint Content Strategy: Navigate Fragmented User JourneysSearch Engine Journal
Digital platforms are constantly multiplying, and with that, user engagement is becoming more intricate and fragmented.
So how do you effectively navigate distributing and tailoring your content across these various touchpoints?
Watch this webinar as we dive into the evolving landscape of content strategy tailored for today's fragmented user journeys. Understanding how to deliver your content to your users is more crucial than ever, and we’ll provide actionable tips for navigating these intricate challenges.
You’ll learn:
- How today’s users engage with content across various channels and devices.
- The latest methodologies for identifying and addressing content gaps to keep your content strategy proactive and relevant.
- What digital shelf space is and how your content strategy needs to pivot.
With Wayne Cichanski, we’ll explore innovative strategies to map out and meet the diverse needs of your audience, ensuring every piece of content resonates and connects, regardless of where or how it is consumed.
Top 3 Ways to Align Sales and Marketing Teams for Rapid GrowthDemandbase
In this session, Demandbase’s Stephanie Quinn, Sr. Director of Integrated and Digital Marketing, Devin Rosenberg, Director of Sales, and Kevin Rooney, Senior Director of Sales Development will share how sales and marketing shapes their day-to-day and what key areas are needed for true alignment.
The What, Why & How of 3D and AR in Digital CommercePushON Ltd
Vladimir Mulhem has over 20 years of experience in commercialising cutting edge creative technology across construction, marketing and retail.
Previously the founder and Tech and Innovation Director of Creative Content Works working with the likes of Next, John Lewis and JD Sport, he now helps retailers, brands and agencies solve challenges of applying the emerging technologies 3D, AR, VR and Gen AI to real-world problems.
In this webinar, Vladimir will be covering the following topics:
Applications of 3D and AR in Digital Commerce,
Benefits of 3D and AR,
Tools to create, manage and publish 3D and AR in Digital Commerce.
Come learn how YOU can Animate and Illuminate the World with Generative AI's Explosive Power. Come sit in the driver's seat and learn to harness this great technology.
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
Digital Commerce Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at UCLA...Valters Lauzums
E-commerce in 2024 is characterized by a dynamic blend of opportunities and significant challenges. Supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages are critical issues, leading to increased shipping delays and rising costs, which impact timely delivery and squeeze profit margins. Efficient logistics management is essential, yet it is often hampered by these external factors. Payment processing, while needing to ensure security and user convenience, grapples with preventing fraud and integrating diverse payment methods, adding another layer of complexity. Furthermore, fulfillment operations require a streamlined approach to handle volume spikes and maintain accuracy in order picking, packing, and shipping, all while meeting customers' heightened expectations for faster delivery times.
Amid these operational challenges, customer data has emerged as an important strategy. By focusing on personalization and enhancing customer experience from historical behavior, businesses can deliver improved website and brand experienced, better product recommendations, optimal promotions, and content to meet individual preferences. Better data analytics can also help in effectively creating marketing campaigns, improving customer retention, and driving product development and inventory management.
Innovative formats such as social commerce and live shopping are beginning to impact the digital commerce landscape, offering new ways to engage with customers and drive sales, and may provide opportunity for brands that have been priced out or seen a downturn with post-pandemic shopping behavior. Social commerce integrates shopping experiences directly into social media platforms, tapping into the massive user bases of these networks to increase reach and engagement. Live shopping, on the other hand, combines entertainment and real-time interaction, providing a dynamic platform for showcasing products and encouraging immediate purchases. These innovations not only enhance customer engagement but also provide valuable data for businesses to refine their strategies and deliver superior shopping experiences.
The e-commerce sector is evolving rapidly, and businesses that effectively manage operational challenges and implement innovative strategies are best positioned for long-term success.
The session includes a brief history of the evolution of search before diving into the roles technology, content, and links play in developing a powerful SEO strategy in a world of Generative AI and social search. Discover how to optimize for TikTok searches, Google's Gemini, and Search Generative Experience while developing a powerful arsenal of tools and templates to help maximize the effectiveness of your SEO initiatives.
Key Takeaways:
Understand how search engines work
Be able to find out where your users search
Know what is required for each discipline of SEO
Feel confident creating an SEO Plan
Confidently measure SEO performance
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
A.I. (artificial intelligence) platforms are popping up all the time, and many of them can and should be used to help grow your brand, increase your sales and decrease your marketing costs.In this presentation:We will review some of the best AI platforms that are available for you to use.We will interact with some of the platforms in real-time, so attendees can see how they work.We will also look at some current brands that are using AI to help them create marketing messages, saving them time and money in the process. Lastly, we will discuss the pros and cons of using AI in marketing & branding and have a lively conversation that includes comments from the audience.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about LLM platforms, like ChatGPT, and how they work, with preset examples and real time interactions with the platform. Attendees will learn about other AI platforms that are creating graphic design elements at the push of a button...pre-set examples and real-time interactions.Attendees will discuss the pros & cons of AI in marketing + branding and share their perspectives with one another. Attendees will learn about the cost savings and the time savings associated with using AI, should they choose to.
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
Financial curveballs sent many American families reeling in 2023. Household budgets were squeezed by rising interest rates, surging prices on everyday goods, and a stagnating housing market. Consumers were feeling strapped. That sentiment, however, appears to be waning. The question is, to what extent?
To take the pulse of consumers’ feelings about their financial well-being ahead of a highly anticipated election, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey. The survey highlights consumers’ hopes and anxieties as we move into 2024. Let's unpack the key findings to gain insights about where we stand.
SEO as the Backbone of Digital MarketingFelipe Bazon
In this talk Felipe Bazon will share how him and his team at Hedgehog Digital share our journey of making C-Levels alike, specially CMOS realize that SEO is the backbone of digital marketing by showing how SEO can contribute to brand awareness, reputation and authority and above all how to use SEO to create more robust global marketing strategies.
18. YOUR CHALLENGE
IS A CHOICE
Any one business problem contains a
multitude of creative challenges.
Determining how you frame up your
creative challenge is half the battle.
19. FORM SOME
HYPOTHESES AND
START DIGGING
CONSUMER CULTURE
COMPANY CATEGORY
What do people
deeply need or
want that is going
unanswered?
What bigger trends in
culture are impacting
or inspiring our
people?
What is uniquely
compelling about the
product or brand?
How is the
category* serving
people and where
are there gaps?
*Might be more than direct competitors
20. WHAT MAKES FOR A GOOD CHALLENGE?
- Sets us up for a creative answer
- Identifies the emotional, human barrier to our success
- Simplifies the complexity of the situation by honing in on what’s critical
- Reframes our understanding of the issue
- Begs to be answered: turns a potentially boring problem into an interesting question
22. BASED ON OUR
CHALLENGE, WE
NEED TO CONTINUE
TO EXPLORE AND
FIND THE INSIGHT
THAT WILL HELP US
ADDRESS IT
CONSUMER CULTURE
COMPANY CATEGORY
What do people
deeply need or
want that is going
unanswered?
What bigger trends in
culture are impacting
or inspiring our
people?
What is uniquely
compelling about the
product or brand?
How is the
category* serving
people and where
are there gaps?
*Might be more than direct competitors
31. TWO PRIMARY FORMS
PURPOSE PROPOSITION
An action-oriented
reason to exist (for
brand or campaign)
The main takeaway
you want people to
walk away with
32. I CAN’T DO THIS. I’M STUPID.
I’M A CLICHE. THAT’S A DUMB
IDEA. WHO DO I THINK I AM?
THIS FEELS RIGHT BUT WHAT DO
I KNOW? WAIT IS THIS EVEN A
STRATEGY? WHAT AM I DOING?
DOES THIS MAKE SENSE? AM I
EVEN A STRATEGIST? MY BRAIN
THIS IS WHERE WE
GET EMOTIONAL ON
A PERSONAL LEVEL.
This is the moment when the doubt might start to creep in.
This is the moment where cracking it will seem impossible —
until it isn't. Keep going. You got this.
33. REMEMBER TO TAKE
YOUR IDEAS FOR A WALK!
● Talk to your creatives early and often
● Explain it to your mom (or a rubber duck)
● Prototype it - make some ideas and put them
out into the real world to test