Marketing warfare, Guerrilla marketing, Red-blue oceans; these terms ruled the corporate boardrooms for a long time. Now relationship is coming to the core and world needs a softer approach to marketing which includes more listening and implementing then telling people what the brand owners think is right.
Old | New |
Interruption | Permission |
Spam | Opt-in |
Customers | Community |
Budgets | Ideas |
Competition | Collaboration |
Mass | Niche |
Push | Pull |
Outbound | Inbound |
Launch and recall | Create quality first and save on recall |
Customers | 1000 true fans |
Features | Experience |
Secret product development | Include potential users in product development |
Mass + Web | Web + Hand-held Devices + a little bit of other media |
Pitch | Story |
1 message – everywhere | 1 message, same soul but tone varied as per platform |
Everything needs to look perfect | Real is better than perfect (think customer testimonials in studio vs. in real life environments) |
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