Graham Brown and Josh Dhaliwal established mobileYouth in 2001 at a time when most technologists were focusing on “location based services”, 3G and other technically oriented objectives. The thought that growing telecoms media and tech was about undertanding the consumer was - at the time - an exception.
Fortunately, we didn’t listen to the voices - [...]
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)
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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 [...]
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 - [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]