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Why Marketing Needs to Hire a Corporate Folklorist

Harvard Business Review

She traveled the world giving presentations that featured these artifacts to illustrate the company’s brand promise through a visceral experience that no brochure or blog post could match. Given the skills and span of responsibility required, this function should sit in the marketing department.

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Great Advertising Is Both Local and Global

Harvard Business Review

With increasing heterogeneity in every market and global exposure just one tweet away, all brands, even local ones, must begin to think globally or suffer the consequences. It has spawned more than 70 TV ads, hundreds of outdoor and print ads, and numerous other adaptations across the marketing mix.

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Yes, Marketers, There Is Life After Mommyblogging

Harvard Business Review

That's the rallying cry I've heard from widely read female bloggers over age 49, who are frustrated that a well-established cadre of younger women with young children — known as "mommybloggers" — garner extensive promotional contracts with major brand advertisers, while Boomer-aged women online are often ignored.

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Three Myths about What Customers Want

Harvard Business Review

Myth #1: Most consumers want to have relationships with your brand. Only 23% of the consumers in our study said they have a relationship with a brand. That's why, when you ask the 77% of consumers who don't have relationships with brands to explain why, you get comments like "It's just a brand, not a member of my family."

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