Are you giving them something to care about?

Some time ago we asked the question “When does Social good represent Exceptional marketing?”
There are plenty of brands keen to express their social values on the bigger stage in order to bask in the reflected glory of the causes they support. Does bandwaggonism impact the sincerity of the scrupulous marketer?
When the Jonas Brothers encouraged teens [...]

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Context: The 10 Brands that Lead

Following on from my earlier post “Content is Dead, Long Live Context” – here are the Top 10 Context Brands you requested:
1) Monster Energy Drinks
2) Pure Digital Flip
3) Jet Blue
4) Threadless
5) BeingGirl
6) Toyota Scion
7) Ford Fiesta (Movement)
8) Boost Mobile RockCorps
9) Nike 6.0
10) Red Bull
Now, the point is… if you’re still committing most of your budget [...]

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When does Social Good = Exceptional Marketing?

10 Marketing Lessons from the Orange/Boost Mobile RockCorps partnership
Good Causes = Good Marketing? (A look at RockCorps by Graham Brown)
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Cause and Connect:10 inspiring case studies how Youth Brands use good causes to sell

If you want to see how youth marketing will look in 5 years time, look no further than these inspirational examples.

Summary: Why should you consider social values?
1) Direct marketing (especially display advertising) is less effective with youth
2) To engage youth you need to create
3) Youth are increasingly buying brands as a result of their associate [...]

Law 7 – Ignore common sense: mobileYouth.org’s 7 laws of youth marketing

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 – [...]

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Law 6 – If you want to change the results, change the metrics: mobileYouth.org’s 7 laws of youth marketing

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 [...]

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Law 5 – Challenge your internal language: mobileYouth.org’s 7 laws of youth marketing

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 [...]

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Law 4 – Make the internal business case for youth: mobileYouth.org’s 7 laws of youth marketing

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 [...]

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