It has become standard for marketing and communications pros to spin psychologist Carl Jung’s wheel of archetypes, hoping to land on an appropriate story model for their brand. That’s great. But here’s how to level up — the real marketing objective should be to become your own archetype, right?
Does anyone remember a time before BMW? Unlikely. The German import has been on American streets since before most people were born. But in 1973, two advertising guys named Martin Puris and Ralph Ammirati ditched Carl Ally Advertising and the Fiat account to rent a hotel room in midtown Manhattan. They gave themselves four weeks to get a paying advertising client. After three weeks, they had no one. On week four, they got UPS. The...
Relationships are built with exclamation points, not dollar signs. Performance marketing techniques may fulfill your hustler urge, but Brands that consistently excite and deliver awe and wonder not only meet quarterly projections, but bring you closer to your Brand vision.
There is a lot of positive energy, excitement and passion that surrounds startups and fresh entrepreneurs who have a vision of how they can impact the planet according to their own slant on the world. Truth is, nobody cares.
Heavy users and advocates play important roles in marketing as they can help companies to reach new customer targets, increase brand awareness and loyalty, and drive sales. But you have to know them to love them, so here’s a closer look at their roles:
