Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

As CEO and founder of two of the fastest growing digital advertising companies in the country, I’ve had to make that decision twice. We used the tribal concept when we created a new video-focused advertising company, AdKarma. Don’t forget that business is a leap of faith. It was clear it needed a tribal approach. About the Author.

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Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. And if trust is lost, the relationship is lost as well. The Sincere Company.

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Aaker Short-term Marketing Benchmarking 64

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Strong yet Others are from books, films and politics. I believe we can stand on the shoulders of the past by exploring the legacy of the women who held out a hand when the terrain was rocky, gave us courage when it looked hopeless, encouraged us to keep on keeping on no matter what. The others can get a silent salute from the heart.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 30, 2011

Ben, the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, had been teaching a master class at a festival in Newcastle, filmed by the BBC. link] #branding #marketing #advertising #design Follow Me on Twitter. Though I read it 10 years ago, one passage still stands out in my mind. Afterlife: Fortune Magazine Contributor, Wannabe Novelist.

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

Mother – the advertising agency that runs campaigns for Coca-cola – has its own take on big, open spaces. In Hollywood, film industry people are using online games, Xbox live, and Second Life, as an electronic space to throw ideas around. Apathy and disconnection are the result. When the company started, its founders shared a table.

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Open-book Organizational Behavior Innovation Creativity 126

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

In the throes of apprehending the future of advertising, much has been, and will be, said about new channels, emergent technologies, innovative measurement protocols, morphing agency roles and the like; much less, probably, about how we actually create marketing that works, that's worth consuming, and that's worth running in any channel.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Please note: emotional differentiation is significant in any brand narrative, but it tends to be more prevalent with brands that are in well-known and crowded markets. However, if you are introducing a new MP3 player 10 years after they have saturated the market, you need not tell people about the functions of a MP3 player.

Brand 50

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Trying to explain to my children that there are advertising breaks so people can sell them things was a deflating experience. While many have theorized about the decline of interruption-based advertising, I realized as I looked into my children’s faces that the end may be sooner than advertisers realize.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2019

All businesses can now advertise their products and services to a worldwide audience on major selling platforms like Amazon and eBay. For instance, you can find everything from graphic design projects to film and TV jobs online by searching on popular freelance sites and job boards.

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Succession How To Film Audience 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

It's easy to see how it happens — the marketing team gets tasked with an Olympic promotion, chases one of the most marketable athletes (a short list), and then gets carried away with athletic cinematography. The result is a beautiful piece of film, but little more. What are your thoughts?

Brand 12

Brand Advertising Film Audience 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Content providers maintain an uneasy alliance with advertisers. And both sides need the advertising to succeed. But the content people also know their customers will balk if they feel that content has been compromised by paid marketing. And all along we've had product placement in films, TV shows, and games.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

It’s advertising, more precisely the cost of commanding consumer attention, which by my calculation has seen a staggering seven- to nine-fold increase in real terms since 1990. My research suggests that there is no universally applicable approach — what matters most is tailoring advertisements to the appropriate context.

Video 8

Video Advertising Audience Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

advertisers will spend approximately “$17.46 To gain advantage on this leveled playing field, there’s one powerful branding tool that has been generally overlooked — or perhaps undervalued — by most marketers: sound. It was introduced with a film that drew the connection between the company’s heritage and its new position.

Brand 10

Brand Advertising B2C B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

We saw it differently, describing to industry leaders the need to radically change in response to disruptive content models (later that year, Huffington Post and YouTube were founded) and emerging advertising models like Google’s search-based advertising. But the warning signs were in plain sight. Disruptive innovation Innovation'

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Film ratings. As a company that thrives when people consume more content, Netflix routinely serves up personalized recommendations to customers based on their feedback on films they've already viewed. Such a list would be very valuable, given the costs of the marketing and inducements it would save. Web advertising response.

Wireless 8

Wireless Film Advertising Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

The irony of using anytime, commercial-free media to watch advertisers work in a world with only three television channels got me thinking about the social implications of advertising in that old world and our new one. The benefits of increasingly targeting advertising are easy for both advertisers and customers to see.

Advertising 8

Advertising Brand Media Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

During this time Reebok and Nike were blood rivals and neck and neck for the number one position in the market. With the Freestyle, Reebok had identified a market that Nike had completely missed — women''s aerobics. We put a sign on the table, "Free T-shirts, One Per Customer," and retreated to a safe distance to film the result.

Company 9

Company Apparel Brand Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Every year in late June, the global advertising community descends on Cannes, France for the Cannes Lions Festival the glitzy awards show that celebrates the best work in the industry. The contrast really becomes evident when some of the advertising industry''s luminaries take the stage. Advertising Creativity Innovation'

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Advertising Creativity Industry Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

He gives All-State and Leo Burnett Chicago a license to do some of the most arresting and imaginative advertising we've seen in ages. Plus, he's excellent meme-material and this allows the brand to circulate in the social media world, to join the conversation that is the new marketing. Cast them in films and other events?

Brand 15

Brand Advertising Film Media 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Here’s what we know: The $290 billion global television market is being disrupted by six billion mobile devices and a new generation of consumers that demand their programing when, how, and where they want it. But an analysis of a comprehensive panel of 22,000 adults fielded this past year by Frank N.

Video 8

Video Telecommunications Early Adopters Advertising 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The current social strategy of many Marketing and Ad Agencies goes something like: “It doesn’t matter if the content is good, as long as we get a celebrity to tweet it, the thing will go viral!” Yet any attempt to market to these hyperactive, frenzied, texting balls of estrogen would be rejected and loathed.

Marketing 50

Marketing Video Content Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Martin Sorrell, the CEO of advertising and public relations giant WPP, was just at the Sundance Film Festival, where he saw a documentary called The Flaw. Financial market deregulation, tax-code changes, and all manner of other policy choices in the have promoted inequality in the U.S., as Jacob S.

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Porter Trends Policies Film 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

The truth is, AI is as “fully-automated” as the Great and Powerful Oz was in that famous scene from the classic film , where Dorothy and friends realize that the great wizard is simply a man manically pulling levers from behind a curtain. A hybrid of humans and AI is remaking retail, marketing, and customer service.

Content 8

Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

The look is always the same: A seasoned marketer is cajoled into watching their first Vine video. The marketer gazes quizzically at the smiling young person that brought the video to his attention. So how does Vine fit into your existing marketing ecosystem? Instagram recently announced their entry into the market.

Brand 9

Brand Video Marketing Tactics 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The Perfect Brand There's Nothing Subversive or Anti-Business About 'The Lego Movie' Pacific Standard True, the villain in the new Lego movie is named Mr. Business, but Fox Business''s accusation that the film is therefore somehow anti-corporate is way off, says Kevin Nguyen. Andrea Ovans BONUS BITS I'm an Introvert.

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Film Audience Brand Self-aware 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2020

Product placement or recommendations in videos for affiliate marketing partners. Directly advertising your own product or services. Vimeo – grow your business with video creation, hosting, and marketing tools. Clearly define your niche and target market. Dailymotion – News, entertainment, music and sports. Do this first!

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Video Audience Download Affiliate Marketing 75

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Last week, Mathew Creamer of Advertising Age said Linds Redding’s ‘Short Lesson in Perspective’ was the best piece of advertising writing you’ll ever read. Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio.

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Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Natalia Georgio knocked on the door of her new marketing director's office. She'd hired Elizabeth, another former dancer, because of her decades of marketing experience, most recently at Violet, a fast-growing woman's athletic clothing company. Then, what you do here isn't really marketing," Elizabeth said cautiously. "It

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Case Study Audience Survey Marketing 13

Strategy Driven

JULY 30, 2019

Marketing is perhaps one of the most important elements to update within your business strategy from year to year. But how can you develop a better standard of marketing? With services such as Your Marketing People , all of this work can be expertly crafted and specialized, keeping you in the loop at all times.

Marketing 10

Marketing Development Audience Film 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We’re all well aware of the fact that marketing is shifting from a landscape where marketers can utilize mass media to speak at consumers, to one where marketers are simply part of the crowd themselves. The bullhorn of radio, television, print and other one-way interruptive marketing approaches are quickly losing efficacy.

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Marketing Content Brand Audience 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it). No one would claim that new product design does not or should not involve wise judgment.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In a tight labor market, it’s imperative that a hiring manager understand the immigration issues that affect who they can hire and how. In contrast, positions in business, marketing, public relations, and some artistic fields received heavy scrutiny, which leads to higher levels of denial. Not all visas are created equal.

Process 8

Process Outsourcing Long-term Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

home marketers (Fox, HBO), cable and satellite services (Comcast, DirectTV), video syndicators (PMI, TVS), film libraries and archives (Eastman House, Getty Images), and talent agencies (WME, CAA, ICM), each with its own contracts and accounting systems. Consumers can view films on their mobile devices in exchange for bitcoin.

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Creativity Film Decentralization Reputation 11

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Advertising fulfills many essential niche needs. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Business-to-business publication advertising. Cause-related marketing materials.

Brand 50

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Chris Brady

OCTOBER 25, 2010

" At least, those are some of the words this person used to advertise, with excitement, I might add, the concept of Communism by a different name. Why is "oppressive" marketed as "progressive?" A "movement" to create a "more fair system" utilizing "proper resource management."

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Film Blog Letter Politics 116

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

The film, produced by Coca Cola , features street scenes of people being kind and happy in well-known Cairo locations. The Coke campaign is one example of what three prominent co-authors addressed in a March HBR post titled " Great Advertising is Both Local and Global." It''s not easy to do, however.

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Brand Globalization Advertising Storytelling 8