Everybody is excited about digital marketing, and it is true that we have a whole new universe with the development of new ways to reach our customers and potential clients, including social media, video platforms, blogs, etc. Does this mean that we should eliminate traditional marketing from our marketing strategies and marketing budgets? Absolutely not!…
I promise that this blog this is not a thinly veiled marketing push from Nespresso. I was recently struck by an online review that was simultaneously funny, over-the-top, and in the end, strangely sincere. It went like this:
I’ve read recently (and occasionally hear it said) that brands need to be willing to change. Those brands that aren’t flexible, or resist change, will be swept away by newer, possibly more adaptable brands. This is a very attractive opinion for branding agencies in the Los Angeles area and all over.
Imagine for a second that your customers are on a journey to engage with your brand. How are you going to get them there? Every successful journey has at its center a guide or map of some kind, and your copy, more than anything, is how you explain that journey to your audience.
The starting point of marketing is the consumer; if you do it backwards it will not work or will only work partially or by chance, but this doesn’t mean that the other parts of the process are less important or that they don’t matter. And before you start screaming at your screen and close this…
When explaining to someone what Twelve12 does, more often than not I find myself focusing my explanation on branding, saying things like, “It’s not just logo! It’s not just logo!” Everybody knows what a logo is, and usually it’s much harder for them to grasp the difference between this and the more abstract concept of…
It’s an age-old battle between the two guiding forces of life. On one side is the cooler-headed cerebral faculties that lead us to a life governed by the scientific method. On the other side, we have the faculties of feeling: the more sensitive, take-off-your-shoes-and-dance-in-the-rain faculty.
A lot has been said about marketing, if you try to search information about marketing online you will find a lot of articles, books, diagrams, slideshows and websites on this topic. Marketing can represent different things depending on the needs of the person conducting the research. It is a word that encapsulates all the aspects…
“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.” -Isaac Asimov I just went with my gut. Usually this is the answer you give when you either can’t explain a decision you made, or you have no reason for your choice.
When you ask a jazz musician how they improvise, or what improvisation is, you might find that you might not get a satisfying answer to your question. It may end up sounding overly simple, “I just close my eyes and play.” Their answer could even sound spiritual, “The music comes from somewhere, but I don’t…
