
When Trying To Engage People On The Web, Timing Is Everything.
Consumers are best reached when using the Internet for pleasure, not work.
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Here is a story on how it is to deliver on brand promise in today's digital world.
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Using social media inside a company can help turbo-charge a brand.
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Consumers are embarrassed to flaunt luxury labels. Now what?
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The biggest challenge in rebranding today is rebuilding consumer confidence.
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Marketers are trying to soothe consumers with nostalgic ads and images. Instead, they should comfort them by delivering useful goods and services.
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Late last year I read an article titled "Call it a recession, already!" Though at the time we didn't officially know that we had already been in one for some time, proof abounded that we were living in stormy economic times with no ray of sunshine amid the clouds.
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Those chain smokers at Sterling Cooper have entered the time machine and stepped off in 2009, and now they have to come up with a new "digital soup strategy."
<< >>It was in 1994 that the first Internet banner ad appeared, the year 2000 that advertising first appeared on Google.com, and just a few years later that Tide detergent commercials were passed around on YouTube and people were “friending” the Burger King king on Facebook. Every magazine and newspaper has a Web site, along with every television and radio station. Digital has entered the media buying vernacular and it was Vivek Shah, Group President, Digital, Time Inc. News Group, to whom I turned for some insider’s insight. Hereto, a brief segment of our lively conversation:
<< >>Who better to write a foreword to a book about digital technology than David Kirkpatrick, Senior Editor, Internet and Technology at Fortune Magazine? David’s introductory comments to my book, BrandDigital, were based on his career studying the evolution of digital technology, itself, but more important, the effects of this technology on consumer behavior. When I learned that David was in the process of writing a book himself, focused on Facebook and other social media sites, I decided to give him a call and see if he’d give me a preview of his findings. Here is a short segment taken from our very interesting conversation. For more of his thoughts, I think he’d be pleased if you kept an eye out for his book, The Facebook Effect, coming out later this year.
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