marketing – a petter idea

No more bowling…

petter — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:58:21 +0000

Ninni Lindertz, Senior Marketing Strategist at Facebook Nordic, gave an inspirational talk at the “Guldägget inspirerar” event. Ninni put forward bowling as an example of how marketing used to be done. Taking a full-size bowling ball and trying to strike down as many pins as possible in one go. In a world of Social Media, bowling is not a preferred strategy. She mentioned Nike’s Write the future ad that first appeared on their Facebook page. Not being the official sponsor, one might still say that Nike won the branding championship. According to Business Week, Nike’s chief marketing officer Davide Grasso has stated that Facebook “is the equivalent for us to what TV was for marketers back in the 1960s.” The takeaway is that marketers should no longer try bowling, but going social by design. A working metaphor would be to play the pinball game.

För svenska läsare finns Ninnis presentation på Vimeo.

Social media presence?

petter — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:09:50 +0000

Why do companies chose to set up a presence in social media? It makes much sense to find B2C companies on Facebook and Twitter, but what about B2B? Stora Enso has chosen to follow no one and has tweeted only 29 times to its 532 followers. What’s the purpose with a twitter account that looks like this?

Marketing and Social Media Trends

petter — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:19:41 +0000

In his blog on influential marketing, Rohit Bhargava who works at Ogilvy has listed 15 social media trends that are changing the world of marketing.
I especially favour his No. 1 Likeonomics that shows how a Like by the right person on a Facebook page may mean more than a major campaign in print.
His No. 5 Rise of Curation is another favourite, with examples like paper.li and the iPad apps Flipboard and Zite.
No. 9 Appification of the Web is yet another interesting aspect, also described by Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff in their Wired article The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.
You can watch Rohit’s presentation here and judge for yourself.

Just do it…

petter — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:01:13 +0000

Seth Godin tells us (tells me!) to do things – not only thinking of things.
Click to watch the video (sorry for the 30s ad in the beginning).

So I am reading his book Linchpin.
May this change me into a real doer?

Victory of “Dead-Tree” Communication

petter — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:55:55 +0000

According to a recent report in Knowledge@Wharton, marketing in print is so much more effective than in digital media. Actually, it is the print that drives the traffic to the web sites! The findings were supported by several comments to the article.

The report was also referred to in the Print CEO Blog, again with a supportive comment about the positive effect of combining blogging and print advertising.