Business buyers have never been bombarded with so much information or had so much choice. To get their messages across, business brands need to appeal to decision makers as people, rather than grey suits, and this means thinking of them as consumers.
Mobile devices and digital techniques are breaking down the barriers as never before, in this session Will McInnes will discuss how exploiting techniques such as gamification and consumer-focused platforms such as Pinterest can help to reach these difficult audiences.
32. $575k prizes
100 targets
80% successful
8 million ounces of gold mined
Company value from $100 million to $9 billion
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40. So what do we see with our clients?
1 Customer service is #1 marketing priority
2 Adopting social tools & behaviours internally is
#2 priority!
3 Training our leadership, sales people, engineers
and other experts in how to behave in this new
world is crucial
4 Transparency can give you a competitive edge in
a world of networked customers
5 Piloting FTW! Small agile pilots: learn learn
learn.
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41. Getting help
Come and say hello today
Engage our consultancy
Read the book
@willmcinnes
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A world where people can personally and directly contribute to getting a project off the ground, and switch from being passive consumers to active ‘investors’.
A world where every person in the family has an iPad
If was a B2B marketing director, I might be best off thinking where to put the massive BUY IT NOW button on our website, given how much research buyers now do ahead of even engaging with us. And then what for our marketing, for our sales force?
Intrinsic motivation and the 16 basic desires theoryStarting from studies involving more than 6,000 people, Professor Steven Reiss has proposed a theory that found 16 basic desires that guide nearly all human behavior. The 16 basic desires that motivate our actions and define our personalities as:Acceptance, the need for approvalCuriosity, the need to learnEating, the need for foodFamily, the need to raise childrenHonor, the need to be loyal to the traditional values of one's clan/ethnic groupIdealism, the need for social justiceIndependence, the need for individualityOrder, the need for organized, stable, predictable environmentsPhysical activity, the need for exercisePower, the need for influence of willRomance, the need for sexSaving, the need to collectSocial contact, the need for friends (peer relationships)Social status, the need for social standing/importanceTranquility, the need to be safeVengeance, the need to strike back/to win
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ive3vXv-XRkOLD SPICE RESPONSES objective: revitalise ‘old’ brand perception and generate new generation of customers Personal response videos from iconic figure – the old spice guy- by pulling in real time q’s from FB, twitter and redditOver 6 million views, old spice guy becomes cultural phenomenon- attracting new generation of fans and reviving brand.
In March 2000, GoldCorp made available a wide variety of geological data to the general public. There was a prize of $575,000 for anyone who could find or suggest potential spots where gold could be found. The result of this mass collaboration effort was over 100 targets that were approximately 80% successful bringing over 8 million ounces of gold. Because of their use of crowdsourcing, GoldCorp’s value skyrocketed from $100 million to $9 billionhttp://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/59/mcewen.html?page=0%2C0