Marketing Trend – Consumers Louder
This is marketing trend #13 in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Previously in this series: Consumer to Consumers. Complaints hidden – not any more! In the Old Marketing, consumer complaints were easily hidden or ignored! After all, how much noise can one lone voice make? Even the plebian […]
Marketing Trend – Consumers Talk 2
This is marketing trend #12 in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Previously in this series: Consumer to Producer Consumers Talk to Each Other In the Old Marketing, consumers were scattered all over the place with little or no connection to each other. They may have bumped into […]
Marketing Trend: Consumers Talk
This is marketing trend #11 in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Previously in this series: Blink Attention Consumers Talking to Producers Previously, organizations were able to distant themselves from their customers: Appalling phone service (tell me about it!), employing middle men to sell to us, ignoring email […]
Marketing Trend: Blink Attention
This is marketing trend #10 in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Previously in this series: Authentic Stories Blink Attention One of the powerful elements of Old Marketing was the relatively few competing messages. You could buy up a few slots on your favourite TV channel and lots […]
Marketing Trend – Authentic Stories
This is marketing trend #9 in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Previously in this series: Infinite Channels. Authentic Stories In the marketing days of old, businesses were easily able to tell us what they wanted us to hear using relatively few publication and broadcast sources. Generally, we […]
Marketing Trend: Infinite Channels
This is marketing trend #8 in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Previously in this series: Hits to Niches. Infinite Channels In the Old Marketing it was relatively easy to get noticed. You simply bought up lots of mass media advertising – eyeballs – and people noticed. Hopefully, […]
Leadership Trend: Function AND Design
This is the first of six in a series of self-leadership trends adapted from Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind. Products, services and experiences need to be functional. That’s presumed. AND, today it’s crucial they also be beautifully designed to engage our emotions. How to be a Designer Here are five things you can […]
Marketing Trends – Cheap or Best
This is the sixth in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Marketing Trend #3: Slice and Dice Marketing Trend #4: Strengthen and Outsource Marketing Trend #5: Scarce or Abundant Two Marketing Choices In the Old Marketing there was plenty of average products selling for average prices. Beige, beige […]
Marketing Trends: Scarce or Abundant
This is the fifth in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Marketing Trend #1: What’s the Big Idea? Marketing Trend #2: Attract the Interested Marketing Trend #3: Slice and Dice Marketing Trend #4: Strengthen and Outsource The Flip of Demand and Supply In the Old Marketing, some things […]
Strengthen and Outsource
Strengthen AND Outsource This is the fourth in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Marketing Trend #1: What’s the Big Idea? Marketing Trend #2: Attract the Interested Marketing Trend #3: Slice and Dice From In-house to Global In the Old Marketing, it was hard to find good help. […]