Howard Mann asks Are You Fascinated by Your Clients?
Q: What if you approached (and targeted) each prospect because you were truly interested and fascinated by their business and/or the type of people they are?
How would that change your entire sales and marketing approach?
I linked to this paper on wicked problems the other day and Chris Corrigan commented “there’s a lot in that paper eh?”. Which is true.
I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more
Passion brands bring people together based on common interests and excitements. I’m particularly interested in ones created from the bottom up, as opposed to driven by producers concerned mainly with profit.
Just back from another extraordinary gathering at Medinge where the community that has produced Beyond Branding meets each summer. I was planning to keep this
Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!
Michael Hammer’s new book, The Agenda, is about the rise of customer power. But is customer-centricity really such a good model for business and society?
Thanks to Matt Tucker at Smith Associates for telling me about What Brand Are You. It strikes me that lots of companies waste money on
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
We live in a world of too much marketing and too much branding. People’s faith in advertising has fallen to new lows as we simply
So the Abbey National is rebranding itself this morning. As I write this entry, they are revealing their new look, their shortened name (just “Abbey”)
A few years ago I wrote this post about insight being the popcorn of therapy. I quoted from the book A General Theory of Love: Patients are often hungry for explanations
Tim Ambler a student at the London Business School is organising a conference Brands in The Boardroom next month. He kindly invited me but it’s not my thing I’m afraid.
Whitewalling: Teens create their own Facebook super log-off | Open (minds, finds, conversations)…
Interesting article from the NY Times: Web marketers fearful fraud in pay-per-click. Here’s the intro: Businesses that pay billions to Google and Overture to steer potential customers to their Web
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