Attracting and Retaining Diverse Board Members (Worksheet)Bloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars
Author, journalist, professional speaker, social impact strategist, and lobbyist Terri Broussard Williams will show you how to attract diverse superstars and explain what to do to keep them engaged and at your board table.
The latest in Mindshare's 'Future Of...' series focuses on connected TV.
Our view is that the connectivity that viewers enjoy on the sofa via the second screen will prove of more significance to media and marketing than the connected TV itself.
As gender roles and responsibilities evolve, we set out to understand the collaborative effect of couples on household shopping. This report reveals our findings on team shopping and the importance of being a team-friendly brand.
High Road Capital Partners Keynote @ Deal Sourcing ConferenceDavid Teten
How to Win:
The Five S’s of Deal Sourcing
Robert J. Fitzsimmons
Managing Partner, High Road Capital Partners
The Capital Roundtable Dealsourcing Conference
May 26, 2011
Breaking through the clutter: Using content, analytics and paid to achieve RO...22squared
The competition for consumer attention between brands is at an all-time high, and social media platforms get more complicated everyday, making it a daunting task for brands and small businesses to understand what it takes to drive awareness, engagement and sales. To achieve true ROI via platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, you need art and science. 22squared's Chris Tuff will simplify the newest platform technologies and offerings, discuss the nuances of the new marketing analytics, and provide 10 strategies for brands to create compelling content that spans multiple platforms and leverages paid to reach the right audiences, move product and drive true ROI.
- Chris Tuff, SVP, Director of Earned & Emerging Media, 22squared
- @christuff
- @22squared
- #socialfresh
- http://socialfreshconference.com
Facebook APIs: There's More Under the Hood than Anyone Knows22squared
June 28, 2011, AllFacebook Expo presentation by Chris Tuff, VP/Social Media Director at 22squared (http://www.mediabistro.com/afexpo/program.asp).
Facebook APIs: There's More Under the Hood than Anyone Knows
What’s available through Facebook’s APIs? No one really knows. Many think that the only available statistics lie in Facebook Insights, but since Facebook opened up their Insights API, a treasure trove of data is available to agencies and brands. API dashboards from companies like AllFacebook, Socialbakers and PageLever serve as the new focus groups and using their tools, agencies are able to identify a brands’ active and engaged fanbase and parallel those segments to determine if they’re reaching brands’ target consumer, if they’re targeting these consumers with paid Facebook ads and if not, what adjustments need to be made to their engagement strategy and idea of that brands’ target consumer. This session will also examine the role of social media as it relates to brands as a whole, and explain why there is so much value for brands on Facebook. We’ll go on to discuss confusion around ad APIs and Facebook Connect APIs (what brands can access within consumer profiles), and share what else Facebook tools and insights can bring to both social media marketing and brand positioning.
Attracting and Retaining Diverse Board Members (Worksheet)Bloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars
Author, journalist, professional speaker, social impact strategist, and lobbyist Terri Broussard Williams will show you how to attract diverse superstars and explain what to do to keep them engaged and at your board table.
The latest in Mindshare's 'Future Of...' series focuses on connected TV.
Our view is that the connectivity that viewers enjoy on the sofa via the second screen will prove of more significance to media and marketing than the connected TV itself.
As gender roles and responsibilities evolve, we set out to understand the collaborative effect of couples on household shopping. This report reveals our findings on team shopping and the importance of being a team-friendly brand.
High Road Capital Partners Keynote @ Deal Sourcing ConferenceDavid Teten
How to Win:
The Five S’s of Deal Sourcing
Robert J. Fitzsimmons
Managing Partner, High Road Capital Partners
The Capital Roundtable Dealsourcing Conference
May 26, 2011
Breaking through the clutter: Using content, analytics and paid to achieve RO...22squared
The competition for consumer attention between brands is at an all-time high, and social media platforms get more complicated everyday, making it a daunting task for brands and small businesses to understand what it takes to drive awareness, engagement and sales. To achieve true ROI via platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, you need art and science. 22squared's Chris Tuff will simplify the newest platform technologies and offerings, discuss the nuances of the new marketing analytics, and provide 10 strategies for brands to create compelling content that spans multiple platforms and leverages paid to reach the right audiences, move product and drive true ROI.
- Chris Tuff, SVP, Director of Earned & Emerging Media, 22squared
- @christuff
- @22squared
- #socialfresh
- http://socialfreshconference.com
Facebook APIs: There's More Under the Hood than Anyone Knows22squared
June 28, 2011, AllFacebook Expo presentation by Chris Tuff, VP/Social Media Director at 22squared (http://www.mediabistro.com/afexpo/program.asp).
Facebook APIs: There's More Under the Hood than Anyone Knows
What’s available through Facebook’s APIs? No one really knows. Many think that the only available statistics lie in Facebook Insights, but since Facebook opened up their Insights API, a treasure trove of data is available to agencies and brands. API dashboards from companies like AllFacebook, Socialbakers and PageLever serve as the new focus groups and using their tools, agencies are able to identify a brands’ active and engaged fanbase and parallel those segments to determine if they’re reaching brands’ target consumer, if they’re targeting these consumers with paid Facebook ads and if not, what adjustments need to be made to their engagement strategy and idea of that brands’ target consumer. This session will also examine the role of social media as it relates to brands as a whole, and explain why there is so much value for brands on Facebook. We’ll go on to discuss confusion around ad APIs and Facebook Connect APIs (what brands can access within consumer profiles), and share what else Facebook tools and insights can bring to both social media marketing and brand positioning.
This document provides strategies for using Twitter for various business purposes, including customer relations, crisis management, corporate reputation management, event activation, product promotion and sales, issue advocacy, and internal communication. Specific examples are given for how companies like Comcast, JetBlue, Zappos, Dell, and the Red Cross have effectively used Twitter for customer service, crisis response, thought leadership, event coverage, deals/sales, and advocacy. The strategies recommend following others on Twitter to listen, regularly creating useful content, and engaging with your followers through responses and questions.
This document outlines an agenda and presentation on writing effective creative briefs. It discusses why creative briefs are important, the current state of briefs, and five key elements that make a brief successful. These elements include providing the big picture context, clear business and creative objectives, insights about the target audience, and details on the competitive landscape. The presentation also provides five ways to ensure a brief is effective, such as being written concisely in a compelling manner that allows creative freedom. Exercises are included to help attendees practice writing briefs.
How to Develop Creative Advertising StrategyJul Ahn
The document discusses effective advertising strategies. It notes that effective advertising must extend from a sound marketing strategy and be compatible with other elements of integrated marketing communications. It must also take the consumer's view and focus on product benefits rather than attributes. Additionally, effective advertising needs to find a unique way to break through clutter, be persuasive by highlighting benefits for consumers, and never promise more than can be delivered. The creative idea also should not overwhelm the underlying strategy.
The Evolution of Advertising: How Consumers Won the War for Their AttentionHubSpot
You're more likely to survive a plane crash than click a banner ad. Crazy, right? Consumers have learned to tune out advertising, but believe it or not, there was a time when products weren't branded, ad agencies didn't exist, and advertising as a profession was unheard of.
In this epic, must-see presentation, we explore the ENTIRE history and evolution of advertising to unveil how a comprehensive (yet digestible) timeline of advertising milestones led to an epidemic of consumer indifference, as well as what marketers can do about it to reach consumers in the years ahead.
Don't be discouraged by the 472 slides -- 29.39% of those are dedicated to awesome pictures and animations that make this a breeze to get through.
Download a free copy of this presentation + a printable advertising timeline right here: http://hub.am/16F877d
Acquisition Financing for Fundless Sponsors: 6 Ways to Negotiate Better Indep...Greg Tobben
Independent sponsor economics are paramount for those operating under a fundless sponsor model. Key components such as deal fees, management fees and carried interests are the reason you're in business.
In this presentation, Acquisition Financing for Fundless Sponsors: 6 Ways to Negotiate Better Independent Sponsor Economics, we'll walk through several practices you can use to get more transactions across the finish line and put yourself in a better position when negotiating with capital providers.
About Access Capital Partners:
Access Capital Partners is a middle market investment bank focused exclusively on raising capital for fundless or independent sponsors, operating executives, management teams and family offices.
We've Leveraged Years of Experience in Raising Capital Across a Wide Variety of Situations to Develop a Focused Effort Tailored to the Unique Needs of Independent or Fundless Sponsors.
Structuring and Financing a Partner BuyoutGreg Tobben
Buying Out a Business Partner or Shareholder: Structuring and Financing the Deal
When an entrepreneur starts a new business, planning for a buyout of a business partner years in the future is rarely a top priority- but maybe it should be.
As businesses grow and evolve, so too do ownership or shareholder groups. The same partners or investors who took a company from startup to $20 million in revenues aren’t necessarily the right people to grow the company from $20 to $50 million, or $50 to $150 million, and so on.
Layer in retirements, partnership disputes and absentee or non-strategic owners receiving generous compensation, and making changes in ownership becomes increasingly more important (and costly) as the business grows.
On the next few pages, we’ll discuss:
1. When a Partner Buyout is a Solution
2. Valuing the Business
3. Structuring a Partner Buyout
4. Financing a Partner Buyout
5. Questions a Business Owner Should Ask When Raising Capital
6. Using an Investment Banker to Raise Capital for the Buyout
About Access Capital Partners:
Access Capital Partners is a middle market investment bank that provides strategic advisory services, raises capital for companies (growth, refinancing, restructuring, acquisitions, partner buyouts, management buyouts, leveraged buyouts), and helps business owners sell or recapitalization their companies.
We are shareholder centric and have deep experience in the middle market. With over 100 transactions representing over $8 billion in volume, business owners leverage our experience as they navigate through inflection points and ultimately achieve personal liquidity.
The document provides a history of marketing and advertising from 1900 to the present day. It discusses the early debates between "hard sell" and "soft sell" approaches. It then outlines the major developments and innovations in each decade, including the rise of branding, positioning, integrated marketing, and the shift to digital and social media. The document references several important books, articles, and thought leaders that helped shape the evolution of the field.
Creative Strategy: Planning and DevelopmentIndrajit Bage
The document discusses creative strategy and advertising creativity. It covers determining the advertising message and how it will be executed. It also discusses different creative processes, including gathering information, incubation, illumination, and verification. Additionally, it outlines developing a major selling idea, unique selling proposition, positioning, and using inherent drama or an image to communicate creatively. The goal is to plan an integrated marketing communications campaign centered on a theme over time.
The slides from my inaugural creative brief writing workshop. Theory and practice. Attendees had to complete a brief prior to the session, and their work was used to illustrate best brief writing practice. More sessions to follow.
This was a presentation that I gave back in April. Since then we have done more advanced Transmedia work and I hope to share that case study soon when we get the full results. Sorry it took so long to upload this.
Griffin Farley helps us understand all forms of strategic planning in advertising including Brand Planning, Account Planning, Media Planning, Connections Planning, Transmedia Planning and Propagation Planning. Griffin will also cover the deliverables for each form of planning and creative examples that have leveraged the various processes.
Launching a startup isn't easy. At each stage of scaling - from founding to product-market fit, from product-market fit to hyper growth, and from hyper growth to maturity - entrepreneurs face unique challenges. Greylock Partners hosted an event, called Greyscale, focused on these challenges at each stage. In the opening keynote, Jerry Chen of Greylock Partners discusses the state of enterprise software after the first quarter of 2016. He summarizes the private and public markets, M&A activity, and explains how this climate affects the startup environment.
The document provides information about the Zika virus outbreak, including how it spreads and symptoms. It notes that Zika virus is mainly spread by Aedes mosquitoes and infected mothers can pass it to fetuses. While there is no vaccine currently, people can protect themselves by preventing mosquito bites, using repellent and eliminating standing water where mosquitoes breed. The most important advice is to stay informed but remain calm.
Jerry Chen, partner at Greylock and former VP of Cloud and Application Services at VMware, shares his Unit of Value framework for startups building a go-to-market strategy. He developed this strategy while managing product and marketing teams at VMware that shipped many “1.0” releases, including VMware VDI, Cloud Foundry, and vFabric, and continues to use the framework to evaluate companies as an investor.
Muhammad Ali was a legendary boxer and philanthropist known for his accomplishments in the ring and advocacy outside of it. Some of his notable achievements included being a 3-time heavyweight champion, donating extensively to charitable causes, and sacrificing his title when refusing to fight in the Vietnam war due to his religious beliefs. Ali left behind a legacy of determination, courage in standing up for his principles, and inspiration to achieve one's dreams despite obstacles.
3 Storytelling Tips - From Acclaimed Writer Burt HelmEthos3
Visit the Ethos3 blog (http://buff.ly/1B8ehRa) to get the full scoop on these tips. By reading the Ethos3 blog post, you will learn how to tell stories that will captivate even the most challenging audiences.
If you need help creating professional presentations, email us at: info@ethos3.com
Ethos3 is a presentation design agency with premier PowerPoint and presentation designers. We can create the perfect presentation for you: www.ethos3.com
When you are creating a visuals and want them to look as snazzy as possible, there is a lot you can do to make your images shine with the brightness and glory of a thousand suns. You can add beautiful background textures, have perfectly complimentary fonts, or play with the orientation of your text in different ways. Even so, if you are not careful your text can look boring. Another way to make your presentation slides look spiffy (and certainly not boring) is to change up the way you display your text. Here are ten clever and easy to implement design tips for mixing up your text display and maximizing your design potential.
Crowdsourced business - ethics through involvementAllan Szymczyk
Agora - the democratic beverage company
Agora is the world’s first company that is run through a direct democratic process by an online community. In other words, you are making all the decisions from what beverage to produce, how to package it, where to sell and even what to do with the profits!
Sign up now and start sharing, learning and creating a company that reflects your tastes and your values. If you believe strongly in something, voice it, gain support and ultimately influence Agora’s future at www.myagora.co.uk
This document provides strategies for using Twitter for various business purposes, including customer relations, crisis management, corporate reputation management, event activation, product promotion and sales, issue advocacy, and internal communication. Specific examples are given for how companies like Comcast, JetBlue, Zappos, Dell, and the Red Cross have effectively used Twitter for customer service, crisis response, thought leadership, event coverage, deals/sales, and advocacy. The strategies recommend following others on Twitter to listen, regularly creating useful content, and engaging with your followers through responses and questions.
This document outlines an agenda and presentation on writing effective creative briefs. It discusses why creative briefs are important, the current state of briefs, and five key elements that make a brief successful. These elements include providing the big picture context, clear business and creative objectives, insights about the target audience, and details on the competitive landscape. The presentation also provides five ways to ensure a brief is effective, such as being written concisely in a compelling manner that allows creative freedom. Exercises are included to help attendees practice writing briefs.
How to Develop Creative Advertising StrategyJul Ahn
The document discusses effective advertising strategies. It notes that effective advertising must extend from a sound marketing strategy and be compatible with other elements of integrated marketing communications. It must also take the consumer's view and focus on product benefits rather than attributes. Additionally, effective advertising needs to find a unique way to break through clutter, be persuasive by highlighting benefits for consumers, and never promise more than can be delivered. The creative idea also should not overwhelm the underlying strategy.
The Evolution of Advertising: How Consumers Won the War for Their AttentionHubSpot
You're more likely to survive a plane crash than click a banner ad. Crazy, right? Consumers have learned to tune out advertising, but believe it or not, there was a time when products weren't branded, ad agencies didn't exist, and advertising as a profession was unheard of.
In this epic, must-see presentation, we explore the ENTIRE history and evolution of advertising to unveil how a comprehensive (yet digestible) timeline of advertising milestones led to an epidemic of consumer indifference, as well as what marketers can do about it to reach consumers in the years ahead.
Don't be discouraged by the 472 slides -- 29.39% of those are dedicated to awesome pictures and animations that make this a breeze to get through.
Download a free copy of this presentation + a printable advertising timeline right here: http://hub.am/16F877d
Acquisition Financing for Fundless Sponsors: 6 Ways to Negotiate Better Indep...Greg Tobben
Independent sponsor economics are paramount for those operating under a fundless sponsor model. Key components such as deal fees, management fees and carried interests are the reason you're in business.
In this presentation, Acquisition Financing for Fundless Sponsors: 6 Ways to Negotiate Better Independent Sponsor Economics, we'll walk through several practices you can use to get more transactions across the finish line and put yourself in a better position when negotiating with capital providers.
About Access Capital Partners:
Access Capital Partners is a middle market investment bank focused exclusively on raising capital for fundless or independent sponsors, operating executives, management teams and family offices.
We've Leveraged Years of Experience in Raising Capital Across a Wide Variety of Situations to Develop a Focused Effort Tailored to the Unique Needs of Independent or Fundless Sponsors.
Structuring and Financing a Partner BuyoutGreg Tobben
Buying Out a Business Partner or Shareholder: Structuring and Financing the Deal
When an entrepreneur starts a new business, planning for a buyout of a business partner years in the future is rarely a top priority- but maybe it should be.
As businesses grow and evolve, so too do ownership or shareholder groups. The same partners or investors who took a company from startup to $20 million in revenues aren’t necessarily the right people to grow the company from $20 to $50 million, or $50 to $150 million, and so on.
Layer in retirements, partnership disputes and absentee or non-strategic owners receiving generous compensation, and making changes in ownership becomes increasingly more important (and costly) as the business grows.
On the next few pages, we’ll discuss:
1. When a Partner Buyout is a Solution
2. Valuing the Business
3. Structuring a Partner Buyout
4. Financing a Partner Buyout
5. Questions a Business Owner Should Ask When Raising Capital
6. Using an Investment Banker to Raise Capital for the Buyout
About Access Capital Partners:
Access Capital Partners is a middle market investment bank that provides strategic advisory services, raises capital for companies (growth, refinancing, restructuring, acquisitions, partner buyouts, management buyouts, leveraged buyouts), and helps business owners sell or recapitalization their companies.
We are shareholder centric and have deep experience in the middle market. With over 100 transactions representing over $8 billion in volume, business owners leverage our experience as they navigate through inflection points and ultimately achieve personal liquidity.
The document provides a history of marketing and advertising from 1900 to the present day. It discusses the early debates between "hard sell" and "soft sell" approaches. It then outlines the major developments and innovations in each decade, including the rise of branding, positioning, integrated marketing, and the shift to digital and social media. The document references several important books, articles, and thought leaders that helped shape the evolution of the field.
Creative Strategy: Planning and DevelopmentIndrajit Bage
The document discusses creative strategy and advertising creativity. It covers determining the advertising message and how it will be executed. It also discusses different creative processes, including gathering information, incubation, illumination, and verification. Additionally, it outlines developing a major selling idea, unique selling proposition, positioning, and using inherent drama or an image to communicate creatively. The goal is to plan an integrated marketing communications campaign centered on a theme over time.
The slides from my inaugural creative brief writing workshop. Theory and practice. Attendees had to complete a brief prior to the session, and their work was used to illustrate best brief writing practice. More sessions to follow.
This was a presentation that I gave back in April. Since then we have done more advanced Transmedia work and I hope to share that case study soon when we get the full results. Sorry it took so long to upload this.
Griffin Farley helps us understand all forms of strategic planning in advertising including Brand Planning, Account Planning, Media Planning, Connections Planning, Transmedia Planning and Propagation Planning. Griffin will also cover the deliverables for each form of planning and creative examples that have leveraged the various processes.
Launching a startup isn't easy. At each stage of scaling - from founding to product-market fit, from product-market fit to hyper growth, and from hyper growth to maturity - entrepreneurs face unique challenges. Greylock Partners hosted an event, called Greyscale, focused on these challenges at each stage. In the opening keynote, Jerry Chen of Greylock Partners discusses the state of enterprise software after the first quarter of 2016. He summarizes the private and public markets, M&A activity, and explains how this climate affects the startup environment.
The document provides information about the Zika virus outbreak, including how it spreads and symptoms. It notes that Zika virus is mainly spread by Aedes mosquitoes and infected mothers can pass it to fetuses. While there is no vaccine currently, people can protect themselves by preventing mosquito bites, using repellent and eliminating standing water where mosquitoes breed. The most important advice is to stay informed but remain calm.
Jerry Chen, partner at Greylock and former VP of Cloud and Application Services at VMware, shares his Unit of Value framework for startups building a go-to-market strategy. He developed this strategy while managing product and marketing teams at VMware that shipped many “1.0” releases, including VMware VDI, Cloud Foundry, and vFabric, and continues to use the framework to evaluate companies as an investor.
Muhammad Ali was a legendary boxer and philanthropist known for his accomplishments in the ring and advocacy outside of it. Some of his notable achievements included being a 3-time heavyweight champion, donating extensively to charitable causes, and sacrificing his title when refusing to fight in the Vietnam war due to his religious beliefs. Ali left behind a legacy of determination, courage in standing up for his principles, and inspiration to achieve one's dreams despite obstacles.
3 Storytelling Tips - From Acclaimed Writer Burt HelmEthos3
Visit the Ethos3 blog (http://buff.ly/1B8ehRa) to get the full scoop on these tips. By reading the Ethos3 blog post, you will learn how to tell stories that will captivate even the most challenging audiences.
If you need help creating professional presentations, email us at: info@ethos3.com
Ethos3 is a presentation design agency with premier PowerPoint and presentation designers. We can create the perfect presentation for you: www.ethos3.com
When you are creating a visuals and want them to look as snazzy as possible, there is a lot you can do to make your images shine with the brightness and glory of a thousand suns. You can add beautiful background textures, have perfectly complimentary fonts, or play with the orientation of your text in different ways. Even so, if you are not careful your text can look boring. Another way to make your presentation slides look spiffy (and certainly not boring) is to change up the way you display your text. Here are ten clever and easy to implement design tips for mixing up your text display and maximizing your design potential.
Crowdsourced business - ethics through involvementAllan Szymczyk
Agora - the democratic beverage company
Agora is the world’s first company that is run through a direct democratic process by an online community. In other words, you are making all the decisions from what beverage to produce, how to package it, where to sell and even what to do with the profits!
Sign up now and start sharing, learning and creating a company that reflects your tastes and your values. If you believe strongly in something, voice it, gain support and ultimately influence Agora’s future at www.myagora.co.uk
The Strategy of Giving (SoG) is a brilliantly simple theory that explains why companies
need to give more to get more. The theory is packed in an easy-to-read format with
informative graphics. SoG takes only an hour to read and two hours to master.
This document provides information about a new MLM company's Aloe Vera product called AceAloe+. It includes testimonials from distributors about their health improvements from using the product. It also discusses the company's founder and his belief in Aloe Vera since his mother's migraines were cured by it. The founder is proud to introduce AceAloe+ as the most potent Aloe Vera product on the market due to its high concentration of Acemannan, the active ingredient in Aloe Vera.
The document discusses the benefits of using social media for businesses, including increased sales and brand awareness. It outlines opportunities like business partnerships and expanding a company's reach. Popular current social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are mentioned as free ways for companies to get known. Large companies that use social media effectively, such as McDonald's, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi, are provided as examples. The document concludes by reinforcing that social media can significantly boost a company in many ways.
Business of the business is to do businessAnurag Ranjan
i. The document discusses the objectives and responsibilities of businesses. It argues that the main objective of businesses is to earn profits within legal boundaries in order to survive and grow.
ii. While businesses do benefit society through job creation, tax revenues, and innovative products, the document states that their primary responsibility is to their shareholders and customers, not social causes. CSR activities are seen as secondary to profit-making.
iii. Examples of companies engaging in CSR for both ethical and self-interested reasons are provided, but the document concludes that businesses should focus on their core functions of product development and profitability over trying to act as charities.
You Have a Transformation Strategy, but is Your Organization Part of it?
I’m sure you’ve heard of gorilla glass. It’s probably on the front of your smartphone, and its strength has saved you from a broken phone more than once.
But it’s not just you and your smartphone that gorilla glass has saved. It also saved Corning Inc.The breakthrough product is the result of a cultural transformation at the specialty glass and ceramics maker.
For Peter Volanakis, Corning’s former COO, saving Corning was all about having the right culture in place. It was a culture that allowed a product like gorilla glass to lose money for 14 years before it found its way onto more than 100 million mobile devices. Inside this issue of Insigniam Quarterly, he shares the value of a company’s culture in transformative environments and offers his three keys to transforming culture.
While the Corning story is definitely instructional and inspirational, it’s far from unique. In our decades as international consultants, we’ve seen it time and time again. A company wants a breakthrough transformation. It wants to grow, but it can’t. Its culture is holding it back.
Throughout this issue, we talk about transformations, both big and small. From Delta Airlines buying its own oil refinery to control fuel costs to the keys to a successful merger. And at the center of each of these transformations is culture. Culture is the very core of how the people in an organization think, perceive opportunities, and behave, and it either supports a transformation initiative or culture stifles it.
As the saying goes, “Culture eats strategy for lunch.” It doesn’t matter how well thought out your plans are, if all the elements of your people are not on the same page with your strategic needs, then your initiative will be for naught.
Consider the company featured on our cover, Danone. For the French food products multinational, the culture change included a whole new leadership approach, adapting its culture to emerging markets and listening to its customers. Listening not in the cliché way that we all say we listen to customers. Danone is actually bringing them into the R and D process.
That was a bold step, but it was necessary if Danone wanted to be a global player. It’s time for a hard look at where you want to be and to ask yourself if it’s your corporate culture that’s preventing your breakthrough transformation from taking
flight.
Shideh Sedgh Bina
Founding Partner, Insigniam
Editor in Chief, Insigniam Quarterly
Sustainability Marketing in a World of Radical Transparency.
Social media technology is driving the shift towards a more open culture, a more open government, and most notably, a more open way of marketing. People are Twittering about your brand right now and the way you respond today will determine the future of brand management.
At the same time, corporate sustainability marketing initiatives are getting labeled as green washing because they lack transparency that is foundational to building authentic brand trust.
In this talk, you will learn how to leverage social media technology to be an Open Brand leader, transcending green washing and building trusted relationship with your customers. See current case studies of corporate green initiatives that have succeeded and failed. Learn how to show your green, authentically.
The document discusses how innovation requires overcoming challenges like failure and risk-taking. It states that innovation is equal to creativity times risk-taking, and that one must expect and manage failure in order to succeed with innovation. It provides examples of how successful innovators like Thomas Edison, Dyson, Johnson & Johnson, and IBM viewed failure as a learning experience that was necessary to achieve success.
An Article on Sustainability: What is Sustainability, how and why it is important to Corporates, it's relevance and is it a Challenge or an Opportunity to Organizations.
Open Brands: How Twitter is Pushing Radical Transparency in Brand ManagementEarthsite
This presentation was delivered as an introduction to a panel on "Open Brands" at the Twitter 140 conference in Mountain View, CA. Representatives from Dominos, JetBlue, Ebay, and Intuit sat on the panel and provided great insights in their corporate use of Twitter. Also, thanks to all the great people who voted for the Open Brand 'unconference' session to make this happen.
Presentation Description: Twitter is pushing radical transparency on brand management. Check out recent corporate case studies in Twitter use, and learn key strategies/practices in Social Media. If you've heard me speak before, I added some new content in this presentation specific for the Twitter audience: Twitter-specific case studies and reorganized/focused slides on the key Twitter concepts. Hope you enjoy it!
Alliance in Motion Global Business Guide by Josh AdedijiJoseph Adediji
Do you want to Start your own part-time business? If yes, check out this Alliance in Motion Global Business Guide which shows you how to make money from the AIM Global Business Opportunity.
Blendtecs 1 St Project [Compatibility Mode]humaapkeliye
Blendtec is a blender company that saw low sales until 2006 when their marketing head created the "Will it Blend?" viral video series. The videos showed Blendtec blenders blending unusual items and gained massive popularity online. This led to a 500% increase in blender sales by 2008. While viral marketing provided a huge boost to Blendtec's brand recognition and sales, it also carried risks if videos spread negative publicity or did not translate into high market share. Overall the campaign was very successful for Blendtec but more work was still needed to improve their market position.
H3 presentation - 20 Years of Investing in and Operating Technology Companies Jeff Dyment
Experience from the buy-side, sell-side and being an operator of start-ups. Having invested in >40 companies, managed a $400 million portfolio of direct investments and fund investments, started 5 companies, and successfully exited dozens, these are some of the important lessons learned.
The document introduces The Voice Company, which gives brands a unique voice to tell their stories through various creative services and mediums. It has helped brands like Milkbasket, MG Motors, and Junoon Foundation launch successfully and acquire customers through creative campaigns. The Voice Company works flexibly based on a client's budget and needs across various modules like brand development, launch strategies, and ongoing customer acquisition. It is positioned as a young, agile creative agency able to tell never-before-heard brand stories.
This document discusses building assets through network marketing (MLM). It provides 3 key points:
1) MLM allows one to build a productive asset through developing a business network, rather than just exchanging time for money. Successful people in MLM become business owners and investors.
2) Skeptics argue MLM is controversial but the document asserts it offers high quality products, fair compensation, and transparency. It also notes that the growth of new distributors is small compared to population growth.
3) Building an asset with MLM requires learning mindset changes, developing a business team and network, and using support systems and tools to excel and achieve goals like financial freedom. Focusing on self-improvement
The document discusses the objectives of firms. It defines a firm and explains that the standard assumption is that firms aim to maximize profits. However, real world firms may also pursue other objectives like sales maximization, personal welfare, social welfare, utility maximization, growth maximization, and welfare maximization. The document provides examples of how different objectives like sales maximization, profit maximization, and utility maximization can be depicted visually. It also discusses objectives of some top companies like Apple, Reliance, Indian Oil, and Samsung.
This document provides an overview of the Agel enterprise wellness company business opportunity. Some key points:
- Agel was launched in 10 African countries in October 2005 and is funded by investors with experienced leadership and networkers.
- It offers health and vitality products through a network marketing model and compensation plan that provides various bonuses and commissions for recruiting others and on sales volumes.
- Benefits of joining Agel include potential unlimited income, travel rewards, tax benefits, family time, and good health from using their products. Support and tools are provided to distributors to help build their business.
Nick Jankel shares his journey from running profitable companies focused on consumerism to pursuing social innovation and entrepreneurship. He discusses the transition from Enterprise 1.0 focused solely on profit to Enterprise 2.0 which uses business as a vehicle to benefit people and the planet. Jankel advocates recalibrating the world towards thriveability by connecting head, heart and hand in service of people and the planet. He offers tools and training to teach others how to innovate and collaborate effectively to co-create a better world.
The document discusses the history and structure of direct selling and network marketing. It begins with definitions of direct selling and describes how early companies in the 1940s began allowing friends and family to also sell products, creating networks of representatives. Over time, more companies adopted this model despite some legal issues in the 1970s. The compensation structures of various network marketing plans like unilevel, matrix, stair step, and binary plans are explained. The document also addresses common questions about direct selling and how it has evolved as a business model and career path through social media marketing and changing economic conditions.
I had a chance to attend SXSW this year. I got in a car crash in my Taxi, I was part of the Homeless Hotspots debate and in-between I attended a few sessions which are shared here.
This document discusses fringe planning and how it can inspire innovators. It outlines how some agencies are establishing venture capital funds to commercialize their own ideas and generate revenue beyond client work. This allows agencies to control their fate and obtain half their revenue from client projects and half from owned intellectual property. The movement of agencies innovating beyond client work is growing as they recruit creative talent and identify consumer needs not met by existing products. Fringe planning could inspire agency innovators by finding solutions to consumer paradoxes and testing early concepts.
This document discusses the practice of propagation planning. It begins with Griffin Farley's background and experience in connection planning. Propagation planning is presented as the next evolution in planning theories after account planning and connection planning. The core of propagation planning is planning for how a message will spread from person to person through word of mouth and social channels. The document provides several case studies and examples of successful propagation strategies. It outlines how a propagation planner's role involves activities like moderating online communities and measuring the spread of creative assets.
The document discusses principles of propagation planning based on a presentation by Griffin Farley and Mike Monello. It summarizes four key points: 1) Rethink timing by targeting early adopters rather than the mass majority. 2) Rethink audience by targeting those with influence over the primary target. 3) Rethink the brief to focus on remarkable qualities, influencer groups, and fostering social experiences. 4) Propagation planning utilizes unique production, strong talent, engaging characters, demonstrating spread, personal touches, communal participation, live experiences, and real value to generate earned media through social spread.
This is a presentation that I gave to a USF Masters of Business Administration class on Brand Planning for Clients. My hope was to share some thoughts with the future generation of clients on planning, positioning, relevance and new product development.
These are lessons that I have learned from studying Propagation Planning in 2009. These lessons will help you understand the philosophy, review case studies and apply the method to your communication plans.
This document provides an overview of the history and role of account planning in advertising. It discusses how account planning has evolved from focusing on driving sales and generating profits in the 1960s to incorporating more consumer insights and brand strategy today. The document also provides advice for getting a job in account planning, such as gaining experience in related roles first and demonstrating a passion for advertising, culture, and human truths.
We have all heard about turning the marketing funnel upside down, but how do you have both traditional awareness needs combine with engaging influencers and advocates as wants? Propagation Planning might be the answer to that as we explore the meld of two schools of communication practice.
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Maintaining a proper record of your money is important for any business whether it is small or large. It helps you stay one step ahead in the financial race and be aware of your earnings and any tax obligations.
However, managing finances without an entire accounting staff can be challenging for small businesses.
Accounting apps can help with that! They resemble your private money manager.
They organize all of your transactions automatically as soon as you link them to your corporate bank account. Additionally, they are compatible with your phone, allowing you to monitor your finances from anywhere. Cool, right?
Thus, we’ll be looking at several fantastic accounting apps in this blog that will help you develop your business and save time.
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The fashion industry is dynamic and ever-changing, continuously sculpted by trailblazing visionaries who challenge norms and redefine beauty. This document delves into the profiles of some of the most iconic fashion personalities whose impact has left a lasting impression on the industry. From timeless designers to modern-day influencers, each individual has uniquely woven their thread into the rich fabric of fashion history, contributing to its ongoing evolution.
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4. WHY SOCIETAL MARKETING?
Some companies are doing a very good job aligning corporate responsibility
initiatives to brands. These companies are doing such a good job that non-profits
should pay attention to what the corporate sector is doing.
In other words, Cause Marketing can learn a lot from Societal Marketing.
5. THE NEED TO ZAG WHEN OTHERS ZIG
Society is immune to this message Society is intrigued by this message