Marketing is sometimes perceived as deceitful or manipulative, with a goal to make us buying things that we don’t really need or at unfairly high prices. It may also be viewed in an oversimplified manner, as “common sense” and “creative thinking”, limited to promotional activities and advertisement. On this site I will focus on positive aspects of marketing - changing the world for the better, establishing new trends, providing great customer service, engaging and creating shared value, corporate social responsibility and sustainability. I will also tell you how successful marketing strategies are rooted in understanding human psychology.
In today’s newsroom, “interactive storytelling” is seen as something of a panacea. Yet as multimedia reporter Lam Thuy Vo shows, when it comes to telling sto...
Becoming Leonardo: How Great Designers Think - is one of the best lectures about design I have ever seen. How do great designers think? Imagine if you could crawl inside the minds of great designers to see what makes them tick: how they go about solving difficult problems, how they deal with adversity, and how they ultimately pull it all together to create successful design. What would you see?
What Is The Content Marketing Imperative? Six months ago, I opened the NewsCred #ThinkContent Summit with my argument for the content marketing imperative. I defined content marketing as the gap be...
Are you wondering what all the fuss is about with content marketing? Do you think it’s just for the big boys in your industry? Content marketing (as the name would suggest) is the process of creati...
Brown's Super Stores operates seven profitable supermarkets in low-income neighborhoods in Philadelphia. The founder says it's because he figured out what communities needed in a neighborhood store.
In this era of preference marketing, buyers are in control. When online information became ubiquitous, the customer suddenly didn't have to simply accept what marketing delivered; she now had choices. To win her business, we need to create a connection that goes well beyond a transactional relationship. To me, that's the rationale behind content marketing: instead of an organization broadcasting inward-focused messages, it must deliver value to the marketplace in order to create the customer c
The campaign for the L'Oreal-owned brand, scheduled to break in the U.S. next month, uses results of an IPSOS survey in digital and social elements to educate consumers about disparities in skin protection between men, women and nationalities.
L'Oreal, through its La Roche-Posay brand, launched an international skin cancer awareness campaign. Please notice that there are no scare tactics here, but rather an attempt to empower everybody to check their love ones and themselves.
The world's greatest social media marketer has objectives and strategies. They're documented—on a spreadsheet—or on some social platform where her peers can collaborate.She understands the whole analy
Simple, open stories with a clear hierarchy that is easy to follow. That’s all I want. I still have my RSS reader to scan the hundreds of stories I track daily. That approach works perfectly well on s
User Generated Content (UGC) is the Holy Grail of social media and content marketing. Here are 8 Tips for motivating your fans to create and share content.
Being good at something is…well…it’s good. Being great at something is so much better though! You probably already know the difference between good profits and great profits. If you already hav…
It's time for marketing to be considered in a more positive light, The rise and spread of global brands aptly illustrates the debt so many companies owe to marketers. It's time we shouted about it, writes Will Harris.
Sellers who are able to build confidence in ideas and inspire action sell the most. Discover the 7 components of a convincing story that are necessary for succeeding in insight selling.
Don't let the 'Anchoring' effect shipwreck your shopping experience. Photo: Ian Svendsplass In our daily lives, we constantly rely on our instincts to navi
The Influence of Earned Media in Content Marketing In the not so distant past the phrase “earned marketing” referred to a relic public relations term that to business executives meant having your b...
Presenter: Darren Woolley, Founder and Managing Director, TrinityP3 While most marketers intend to embrace the benefits of content marketing, many are strugg...
Storytelling is by all means the only way to branding success. The most successful brands tell the most compelling stories. Think of a brand that you particularly ...
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Good read.