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I love working for and with Founder/CEOs.
No doubt, this makes me an eccentric marketer and an odder ad guy, and casts extreme suspicion on my membership in the creative community.
Marketers are supposed to want to run their own empires – otherwise why spend all that money on a Harvard MBA and all that energy climbing the corporate ladder? Creative directors think the ideal client listens to their presentations, and then applauds. Ad agencies think their job is to please the target audience no matter what the client might think.
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Tags: advertising, mark dimassimo, marketing, richard branson, steve jobs
A lot of great social activity coming out of Super Bowl weekend. Enjoy!
1. 9 Brands That Thought Fast on Social Media During the Super Bowl
2. Top Super Bowl Moments on Facebook
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Tags: beyonce, DIGO, mark dimassimo, mashable, super bowl
In 2007 Amway was a global, $6 billion company nearing 50 years in business. Known as a leader in multilevel direct selling, the company had nearly 3 million distributors in about 100 countries. From the outside, the company would certainly appear to have been doing plenty right.
Yet, as it prepared for the 50 anniversary, Amway undertook a massive transformation program, one designed to make the company more consumer-focused and performance-driven.
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Tags: amway, candace matthews, cmo.com, jeff pundyk, mark dimassimo
Here is this week’s social update:
1. Social Network Storylane Allows You to Really Share Your Life Story
2. Redbull Space Jump Breaks YouTube Record
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Tags: advertising, change, DIGO, mark dimassimo, social media
Personal wealth. It’s a topic no one likes to discuss in mixed company. To pony up a true salary number is almost too intimate. We’re constantly comparing ourselves to others and subscribing to the “keeping up with the Joneses” mentality. As Albert Bandura, a psychologist at Stanford University, said:
“Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that you have to rely on others to find out how you’re doing.“ (more…)
Tags: albert bandura, change, mark dimassimo, wealth
On Fast Company last week, Baratunde Thurston, comedian and former Director of Digital for The Onion, recounted a social media anecdote that would make any digital marketer squirm: he mistakenly activated a 3rd party tool for Twitter that spammed The Onion’s entire following every time they got a new follower. While his story may give me nightmares for weeks, the portion of his piece that really stood out was the importance of brand authenticity within the social space:
“For companies that see this new frontier as a marketing opportunity (and that’s basically all of them), it is a thin line between relevant and creepy stalker. You want to be where the conversation is and join it in an ‘authentic’ way, but just because someone is talking about your product does not mean he wants to talk about it with you. (more…)
Tags: baratunde thurston, change, fast company, mark dimassimo, Social marketing
We can’t see the world as static. Conceptual boxes can be helpful as long as we realize we have invented them ourselves to help us understand things. The moment we forget that we can uninvent them, we’re stuck.
There is a tendency to view market categories as a given. We think we’re in the “server hardware” category. Or the fitness club category. Or the E-commerce category. Like Blackberry (Research In Motion) was in the smartphone category and Apple was in the personal computer category. Oops.
Or Starbucks was in the coffee shop category and McDonald’s was in the Fast Food category. If categories tell us which competitors to ignore and which competitors to track, than category thinking is dangerous. You won’t see them coming!
If category thinking limits your imagination about how to expand and grow your brand and business, then category thinking can be deadly (more…)
Tags: change, mark dimassimo, marketing, motley fool
Intel founder, tech genius and billionaire Andy Grove titled his book, Only the Paranoid Survive.
Since we can’t see everything, the truth is that we make decisions based on our biases. Most of us don’t question our biases, they are just “the way we are.”
Grove developed a set of biases that propelled him to the top of the digital world. Where did he get them? Nazi Germany (more…)
Tags: advertising, andy grove, change, mark dimassimo, only the paranoid survive
How the relatively new phenomenon I’ve called “Cultural Whistle Blowing” is rocking giants and creating opportunities for virtuous midsized companies – Cheetahs – to take share!
Today we read two telling and purposely public resignation letters. The first is from a high level executive at Google, the second from a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs (more…)
Tags: change, goldman sachs, Google+, mark dimassimo
Research in Motion (RIM) co-CEO’s are stepping down. RIM stock has gone nowhere since 2008. Today, RIM’s (RIMM) market cap is $7.74B. Apple’s (AAPL) market cap: $391.88B. Which means that Apple is 50 times more valuable than RIM! (more…)
Tags: change
Presidents and Companies as Challengers and Leaders.
Successful presidential candidates and innovative fast-growth companies have lot in common. Both must succeed first as challengers and ultimately as leaders. This is as rare a trick among companies as it is among politicians. (more…)
Tags: change
Many people made small fortunes in the direct-to-consumer computer boom of the nineties and early 21′s century. Unfortunately for many of those people, the small fortunes were made out of much larger fortunes. (more…)
Tags: change
Nothing speeds things up by solving multiple problems at once like a BIG idea. Here’s how to get more of them.
BIG ideas are different. They don’t so much defy logic, as go beyond it. They challenge the illusion of costless compromise. If you are competing with, or trying to reinvigorate a large organization, you need to be able to green light the big idea.
So, what is a big idea? What does it look like before it becomes a big idea? How can you recognize an opportunity (more…)
Tags: change, howard schultz, ideas, marketing
We do lot of things that ultimately add up to one thing: we help companies grow. We do that by building brands. And we do that with a myriad of different tools. Research. Strategic planning. Media planning. PR. Social media. Design. Direct response. All of that in addition to what people have now come to call “Traditional advertising,” i.e. television, print, and digital. All of it just comes down to communicating in a way that makes it easy for people to like your company. (more…)
Tags: change, connecting, digital, DIGO, interactive media
People want to commit to things that give their lives meaning, but of course people fear committing to things that will fail to return the love. Many institutions have done just that, leaving people with a lack of faith in any organization. So today, the dream seems to be of “passive income,” “the 4-hour Work Week”, the billion-dollar exit, (more…)
Tags: apple, brand, change, freedom, love
One part social scientist, two parts creative marketer, DiMassimo is a writer, creative director, entrepreneur, experimenter-in-chief, CEO and founder of DIGO. (more…)
Tags: DIGO, ideas, Leadership, mark dimassimo, People
What is your personal brand?
Proove. Yes, that’s my company’s brand, but it’s also my personal brand: accountable, actionable and measurable. (more…)
Tags: adam lutz, digital media, media, proof
Eric Yaverbaum co-founded Jericho Communications in 1985, the 11th ranked PR firm in the country to work for and served as its president for 21 years before their highly touted and successful merger in 2005. Yaverbaum now runs New York City agency hot shop Ericho Communications (www.erichopr.com). He brings 27 years of experience to the practice of public relations and has earned a reputation for his unique expertise in strategic media relations, crisis communications, and media training. Eric has amassed extensive experience in counseling a wide range of clients in corporate, consumer, retail, technology and professional services markets and building brands such as Sony, Progressive Insurance,TCBY, Mrs. Fields, Subway Sandwiches, IKEA Home Furnishings, Domino’s Pizza, H&M and American Express, among many others.
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Tags: DIGO, eric yaverbaum, pr, Press, social
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