Inspired by the works of Seth Godin and based on our own research, check out our latest presentation - Mobile Youth Tribes: Mobile Youth Tribes by Graham Brown mobileYouth.org (Youth Marketing) View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: generation students) [...more]
Trust Earned and Lost “Communication is not a function of technique but a function of trust” - Stephen R Covey Trust is earned never bought. It comes from years of doing rather than saying. Consider the Google brand as a trusted benchmark. However, trust is easily lost through complacency and the 6 ways illustrated below. In my [...] [...more]
by Graham Brown Part of the feature series: The 7 Laws of Youth Marketing by Graham Brown <Back to Law #6) If you want to change your results, change your measurements 7) Sustainable brands ignore common sense - the underpinning of many of the failings highlighted in the 6 previous rules. Common sense means doing what works - [...] [...more]
by Graham Brown Part of the feature series: The 7 Laws of Youth Marketing by Graham Brown <Back to Law #5) Challenge your internal language 6) If you want to change your results, change your measurements Ultimately it all comes down to Your choice of metric. I’ve been a long time proponent of integrating long term business metrics alongside [...] [...more]
by Graham Brown Part of the feature series: The 7 Laws of Youth Marketing by Graham Brown <Back to Law #4) Make the internal business case for youth 5) Challenge your internal language. Many CEOs create an introspective “ivory tower” culture that takes too much time in self-referencing and using industry specific languages. See this post by Dave Knox from [...] [...more]
by Graham Brown Part of the feature series: The 7 Laws of Youth Marketing by Graham Brown <Back to Law #3) Build a dialogue using the right channels 4) Make the internal business case for youth “We’re not a youth brand!” is the classic statement of disconnect. As the BBC strives to find mid teen programming to keep their [...] [...more]
Here’s a quick 30 second burst of the videos we’ve just compiled with our mobileYouth team. More videos available for viewing and download over @ mobileYouthnet.com More videos include: * All countries * Mobile Youth Pakistan * Mobile Youth China * Mobile Youth Philippines * Mobile Youth Estonia * Mobile Youth USA [...more]
by Graham Brown Youth marketing is always redefining the parameters of what is acceptable. Bright individuals will always push the envelope however there will always be a marcomms department to keep them in check. That was one of the themes of my recent presentation to Vodafone on Youth, Loyalty and Trust and follows on from the [...] [...more]
I’m a big fan of Seth Godin, you probably know already (I’ve already blogged down the line about The Dip). I borrowed one of his riffs earlier when I blogged about Sliced Bread and why we need to challenge the received wisdom. Godin was the first author to switch me on to the idea of [...] [...more]
Youth Marketing is all about something you do with not to youth.” Graham Brown (mobileYouth 2008 Report) Following my earlier riff about trends in the marketing of Great Youth Brands (last time was Red Bull), I’d like to talk about one of my favourites. This is the key question - how does a mass market “everything to [...] [...more]
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