Rihanna used social media to blow away any notion that an engaged and active audience can't be motivated and driven to buy products. Granted, she is a top selling artist, but the fact remains, she used social media to sell out her entire line of lipstick product form MAC cosmetics…
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Maybe people will finally "get it" that you don't sell on social...and that digital is completely done! (as a place to push ads that is) ”Today’s consumers decide where, when, and how they want to engage with brands". Duh!! Yeah...I know...there are bound to be legions of moronic digibots who…
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Back in the day, Kings had food tasters. The duty of the "taster" was to eat some of the food prepared for the king and if the taster died, then the king would know that he needed to order something different off the menu. Today we call those people focus…
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WTF Is A Marketing Campaign On Social Media? Seriously. I find myself shaking my head when I hear brands trying to overtly sell shit on social media. Sure, #SocialMedia does have a purpose for allowing you the opportunity to sell, but you have to EARN the right to sell to…
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THIS is innovative AND brave. Most of what passes as traditional advertising is not. The reason I think that more advertising isn't innovative is because there are too many dinosaurs preserving the status quo. Before I get a bunch of emails from people, let me just say that I'm not…
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How many entrepreneurs, business owners, brand managers and CMO's toil daily trying to convince consumers to buy their stuff or do business with them? Way too many. I'm working with people who are in the advertising industry and I hear the same old shit being pumped out onto the masses…
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I read an article today on CNet and the numbers in the article regarding Facebook ads made me read it twice. It seems that Samsung ran a campaign on Facebook for 3 weeks. They were pushing their new Galaxy S3 smartphone (which by the way is one killer alternative to…
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We all hear about advertising agency execs being the type of people that would eat your children and only care about how much money they can make. Not that there is any problem with making money. After all, I'm a card carrying Capitalist myself. But when an ad exec goes…
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This was a video created by the people over at the agency McCann Melbourne for the Melbourne Metro. In just a week or so since they published the video it has notched nearly 26 Million views. Now be careful. If you watch this you may be humming it all day…
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"Every consumer is their own media company". Shiv Singh, Global Head of Digital, PepsiCo Social media puts you in a position to speak directly to your customers about things that THEY are interested in when they are interested in them. As Shiv says... Marketers will have to shift from traditional…
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The Kind Of Client Presentation You're Probably Used To...and will never see from me! I have to apologize in advance. You see, I really feel your pain. You've probably sat through quite a few presentations that resemble the one parodied in the video above. Don't worry, you're not alone. A…
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