Grumpy Brit reminds us that an overzealous focus on efficiency is not the best approach for mass marketers. The most common complaint against “traditional” advertising is the waste factor. According to the precision-guided-missile school of marketing, any message that reaches anyone who is not an immediate prospect for purchasing the product is wasted. And these [...]
P&G Looks Beyond The Package, Finds Services
March 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
According to Ad Age, Procter & Gamble Co. is increasingly looking to services to fuel its thirst for growth. “I think service is yet an untapped area for us,” Chairman-CEO Bob McDonald said. “We’re active in franchising now with Mr. Clean car washes and Tide Dry Cleaners. MDVIP [concierge physician service] is a service operation. [...]
Matt Mason On Competing With Pirates And Other Matters
February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Matt Mason, is Strategy Director at Syrup and author of The Pirate’s Dilemma. I like how he says business books are big business cards. That’s sort of how I feel about AdPulp.
Into The Kaleidoscope You Go
February 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The graph above from Forrester indicates how much more complex brand building is today, and how deep “the brand” goes in an organization. Well beyond the CMO’s office, that’s for sure. [via What Consumes Me]
Strategy Was His Strength, Not Disaster
February 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
Thanks to the donation of The Grateful Dead Archive to University of California at Santa Cruz academics of all stripes, from ethnomusicologists to philosophers, sociologists to historians will begin heading to the hillside campus to pour through decades of arcane documents and other artifacts. According to The Atlantic, the biggest beneficiaries may prove to be [...]
Where’s Your Wild, Almost Naive Ambition?
January 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In July 2008, Sarah Lacy wrote the following words of wisdom about the importance of place to the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Every center of innovation needs a cocktail of things: -wild, almost naive ambition -money -a culture of risk taking -a social scene where Valley-like serendipitous moments can happen. (You know, stuff like: Oh, hey! I [...]
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