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“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.” — Bertrand Russell Two weeks ago one of my clients (a motion design agency owner) was sharing her top goals with me and she let slip this zinger: “Oh, and I want us to generate more consistent revenue……
Earthquakes: Accenture Interactive and S4 Capital models point the way to next gen customer needs As CMO needs evolve to become increasingly digital, two new market entrants find wins I think this interview above should be read side-by-side with this Digiday interview with S4 Capital and former WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell. Accenture Interactive had…
AdAge delivers an inside look into Woven, P&G’s in-house strategy A year later, obvious successes, but more departures than perhaps was anticipated It has been almost a year since we first heard of P&G’s cross-holding company, internal agency model (when I warned in Newsletter #114: “In-house marketers, do not emulate P&G’s new model… yet”) ,…
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius We all know big results come from small changes, applied consistently over time. But have you ever considered the opposite? That big failures come from small failures, endured consistently over time. Last week Tim Thompson and I were walking…
The Video of the Week Nordstrom makes some fascinating creative decisions for a “top-of-the-funnel campaign” This two minute ad, “An Open Mind is the Best Look”, stars part-time actors and non-professionals and is built around ad-libbed dialogue from Carol Hickey, an acting coach. Nordstrom asks viewers to “Be receptive, be flexible, be present”, and wants…
In my last email I offered to share a few example exit strategies, or more to my point, “conversion strategies.” With that, my inbox promptly blew up. 🙂 Warning: whenever Tim Thompson or I speak in public on this topic (escaping the work-for-hire model / converting your business into an asset), owners get upset. Someone in the…
“The biggest boom” for animated content from Amazon, Apple, Hulu and especially Netflix And studios are now struggling to keep up with a limited talent pool Back in October I wrote about how Dreamworks’ reboot of She-Ra was a next-gen animation business case study, because of how heavily it was relying on Netflix for survival….