Just do it…
Once you've done all your thinking, research, and empathizing, hopefully you have a pretty good idea what you want to say – what the brand narrative is going to be. It’s time to start synthesizing all those influences into the semblance of a big idea.
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Creativity, where art thou?
The big idea – the brand story running throughout a campaign and the entire business – can’t come from a rulebook or a set of data. So where does creativity come from?
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Don’t get into the box…
We’re forever being told to “think outside the box”, but we say “don’t get into the box in the first place”. These days, traditional business structures can seem irrelevant.
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A marriage of art and science
George Bernard Shaw once wrote: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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If marketers are architects, how should they structure their own building?
Continued from my previous post
If marketers should be the equivalent of architects designing and building beautiful edifices founded on a series of platforms – the most important of which is creative – it follows that the way we structure our businesses should reflect this.
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This is no joke – how humour can help B2B marketers connect with their audience
There were two cows in a field. One said “moo”, the other one said, “I was going to say that!”
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