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Know Your Audience

January 12th, 2010 · Comments Off · Bookshelf, Marketing

Last night Daniel Pink, pro­lific author, came to town to pro­mote his lat­est book, Drive: The Sur­pris­ing Truth About What Moti­vates Us. I loved his prior book, A Whole New Mind, so I per­suaded 3 friends to join me for Pink’s pre­sen­ta­tion. Lit­tle did I know that the expe­ri­ence would be more about pro­mo­tion and less about sub­stance. Here’s why.

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Learning from Parisian Shop Windows

November 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · Brand Matters, Marketing

I love strolling and win­dow shop­ping in Paris. There’s a spe­cial mys­tique that win­dow dressers in Paris employ that brand teams and mar­keters every­where would do well to emu­late. Shop win­dows in Paris do a won­der­ful job of con­vey­ing the idea of what’s being sold — of con­vey­ing the brand essence, help­ing you envi­sion how […]

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Marketing to Women: 2 Examples

November 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Brand Matters, Marketing

After blog­ging about “the female econ­omy” as the world’s biggest untapped mar­ket oppor­tu­nity, I’ve been on the look­out for evi­dence that com­pa­nies and brands are mar­ket­ing specif­i­cally to women. I’ve seen a cou­ple of exam­ples recently, an encour­ag­ing sign. Both offers focus on help­ing women over­come the gaps in our under­stand­ing of mechan­ics – things most […]

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Yoga in a Flatter World

August 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Marketing, Yoga

Thanks to this blog, I’ve now had my first taste of busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties that can emerge from blog­ging, by attract­ing entre­pre­neur­ial peo­ple with shared inter­ests and pas­sions. Blog­ging is a part-time hobby, not one I invest enough time in to drive sig­nif­i­cant traf­fic vol­umes or hits on the site. So my expec­ta­tions of results are low. […]

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Using Twitter to Find Yoga Teachers

July 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Marketing, Yoga

I just had my first quin­tes­sen­tial Twit­ter expe­ri­ence, after sev­eral lack­lus­ter months of exper­i­men­ta­tion. Within 2 hours of pos­ing a ques­tion on Twit­ter, I had a great answer from the sin­gle most rep­utable source in the world. My ques­tion was, “Who are the Anusara yoga teach­ers on Cape Cod?” The per­son who responded to my query, […]

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Wal-Mart Will Accelerate Green Retailing

July 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · Back to Basics, Marketing

Today’s Wall Street Jour­nal announced a mas­sive “green” ini­tia­tive by Wal-Mart that will even­tu­ally enable con­sumers to make informed choices about the envi­ron­men­tal impact of the prod­ucts and brands they’re think­ing about buy­ing. Because of Wal-Mart’s enor­mous clout with both sup­pli­ers and con­sumers, the impli­ca­tions of Wal-Mart’s announce­ment could be game chang­ing. Print PDF

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Managing Your Personal Brand

July 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Brand Matters, Marketing

My friend Shiv­onne Byrne has just posted a won­der­ful entry on how to man­age your per­sonal brand. Check out her blog: Mar­ket­fu­sions: Every­thing is a Brand, Includ­ing You. She encour­ages peo­ple to think through: Their per­son vision Their fun­da­men­tal pur­pose or rea­son for being Their val­ues Their pas­sion and then develop a per­sonal brand plan that will […]

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Social Media’s Nasty Little Secret

June 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Marketing, Social Media for Business

There’s a very real obsta­cle to suc­cess­ful social media engage­ment, and that’s the fact that “most com­pa­nies and agen­cies were not built for dia­logue,” accord­ing to Matt Dick­man of Fleish­man Hillard. It’s not just a prob­lem of scale. Most busi­nesses lack the cul­tures for open-minded lis­ten­ing and respond­ing, and cul­tures tend to take a long time […]

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The Quest for the Perfect Yoga Mat

June 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Marketing, Yoga

See my lat­est post for an update on this quest. For some time I’ve been look­ing for the per­fect yoga mat, but have not yet found it. Over time and with daily usage the mat becomes a kind of sacred place so it’s impor­tant that you find one that really fits your needs and val­ues. Here’s […]

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Lululemon: Cult-like Loyalty?

June 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Brand Matters, Marketing, Yoga

So how does Lul­ule­mon inspire such cult-like loy­alty among its cus­tomer base (prin­ci­pally yoga prac­ti­tion­ers)? They do the basics really well — for both in-store and online shop­ping. It’s clear they’re pay­ing atten­tion to cus­tomer expe­ri­ence man­age­ment across many dimen­sions. A Well-Designed Expe­ri­ence Play­book Here are some of the things they get right: Print PDF

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