Make the customer the hero of your brand's story.
Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving. Testing was used in advertising decades ago. The internet has made testing so easy that every online marketer can use it to improve advertising results. Google content experiment is a free tool for you to do split testing.
A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.
Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.
If you want to become a great marketer, the place to start is actually selling. one on one, face to face.
Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.
Bud Light....the perfect beer for marketers about to lose their job.
As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.
You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency.
What's the DNA of a marketer? We call it the 4-I's: instigator, implementer, innovator, and integrator.
The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.
More than ever, we express ourselves with what we buy and how we use what we buy. Extensions of our personality, totems of our selves, reminders of who we are or would like to be. Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.
When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
Marketers keep inventing desires, necessities for you and for me. I need this. I need that. I need. I need. It's the need of a smoking fit. If you don't smoke that cigarette now, you'll die - when in reality you die because you succumb to the rage and rattle of the needy greed that keeps you busy needing more and more things. Is this the American Dream - the greedy need?
The only marketers who know what the hell they're doing are those who have worked in sales
What marketers used to do is make average products for average people. That's what mass marketing is. They would ignore the geeks, and - God forbid - the laggards. It was all about going for the center. I don't think that's the strategy we want to use anymore.
Marketers reinforce the idea - a false one - that celebrity is available to everyone.
A salaried job trains us to be "right" all the time and induces an entitlement mentality. This is because we get paid the same amount no matter what work we are producing, and we begin to see this is fair and right, and we begin being trained to think we are right all the time. When we become salespeople and marketers, we have to leave all of that behind.
When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.
Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.
Our job as marketers and leaders, is to create vibrant pockets, not to hunt for mass.
New technologies make it possible for even the mass marketer to assume the role of a small proprietor, doing business again wit individuals, one at a time.
The consistent growth in overall revenues shows marketers may be shifting more of their total advertising budgets to online. This is a natural development as research shows more consumers are spending a larger percentage of their media time online, while the flow of advertising dollars follows.
No longer dependent on 30 second spots, today's marketers need a never-ending stream of content.
I don't even consider myself an environmentalist anymore. I'm a free-marketer. I go out into the marketplace and I catch the polluters who are cheating the free market.
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