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Speechless: An Open Letter to Apple [updated 1/3/09] [updated 1/5/09] [updated 1/14/09] “Et tu, Apple?” Dear Apple, This week you announced that this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo would be your last, and that Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Philip Schiller will stand in for boss Steve Jobs as the opening keynoter. You defended your decision, stating: “Apple is reaching more people in more ways than [...]
Filed in Brand Community Media Strategy, Email and Social Media Marketing | 26-Dec-08 | no comments
Custom Publishing Review: Magazine Misses the Healthpoint What good is a branded magazine without the brand? Just last week I received a copy of Healthpoint Magazine, a publication of Mills-Peninsula Health Services (San Mateo, California). Trouble is, by looking at the cover I had no way to know who produced it. It has no Mills branding. Then when I looked inside, it dawned [...]
Filed in Brand Community Media Process, Brand Community Media Strategy, Custom Media, Custom Publishing, Custom Publishing Review, Publishing Strategy | 02-Dec-08 | 2 comments
Marcomm Integration with Brand Community Media / Custom Publishing How a brand community media program can incorporate multiple marcomm objectives Marketing organizations use a mix of communications activities – such as advertising, direct mail, customer research, and P.R. – to pursue diverse objectives. A company might develop one marcomm program to keep “at risk” customers from switching to an upstart competitor, another to support a [...]
Filed in Brand Community Media Process, Brand Community Media Strategy, Custom Media, Custom Publishing, Publishing Strategy | 18-Nov-08 | no comments
Where’s the Love? Sustaining Brand Value "We need emotional content." The student tries again, and the master intones, "Don't think. Feeeeel. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of the heavenly glory."
Filed in Brand Community Media Strategy, Custom Media, Custom Publishing, Dave Kalman Analysis, Publishing Strategy | 15-Nov-08 | no comments
Brand-Focused vs. Customer-Focused Content Extend your marcomm portfolio with consumer-focused media Managing a brand requires focus: communicate the brand identity, rinse and repeat. And repeat. And repeat. As you accrue brand equity, you can then broaden the relationship with consumers by carefully extending your brand offerings. By “carefully,” I mean that you must assess whether a new product at least [...]
Filed in Brand Community Media Process, Brand Community Media Strategy, Custom Media, Custom Publishing | 12-Nov-08 | no comments
Using “Engagement” as a Media Planning Metric Rules of Engagement In selling advertising, publishers often promote as a key benefit the value of engagement. This term is understood to mean the quality of a consumer’s experience of a publication, with the clear implication that the greater the engagement, the greater the value to the advertiser in terms of ad performance. AdAge.com recently reported on [...]
Filed in Brand Community Media Strategy, Custom Media, Custom Publishing, Publishing Strategy | 17-Aug-08 | no comments
Custom Publishing Review: Healthy Pet Magazine A Perfect Balance Have you seen Healthy Pet magazine, published by Zoasis of Huntington Beach, California? A 36-page full color magazine, Healthy Pet arrived with a personalized half-cover announcing that it’s time for Joey — my cat — to come in for a check-up. I assume I was placed on the Healthy Pet mail list by [...]
Filed in Brand Community Media Process, Brand Community Media Strategy, Custom Media, Custom Publishing, Custom Publishing Review | 09-Aug-08 | no comments
Custom Publishing Review: REI Gearmail The unrealized potential of content I suppose there’s something to be said for minimalism in marketing communications. Keep it simple. Get to the point. Get out of the way. Case in point: Gearmail, the email bulletin from Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), the outdoor specialty co-op/retailer based in Kent, Washington. Gearmail seems to arrive about once a week. [...]
Filed in Brand Community Media Process, Brand Community Media Strategy, Custom Media, Custom Publishing, Custom Publishing Review | 07-Mar-08 | no comments
Custom Publishing Ethics The custom publisher’s responsibilities to consumers If you browse a website long enough you’ll eventually find a “Terms of Use” or “Legal” policy statement. That document outlines the site owner’s legal responsibilities (or lack thereof) and the rules that Web site visitors agree to follow. You can find the document link at the bottom of this [...]
Filed in Brand Community Media Strategy, Custom Media, Custom Publishing | 15-Oct-07 | no comments
Deconstructing Content Maybe the medium isn’t the message after all. Whether you work in a publishing endeavor or in a marketing communications department, you must address the same basic trend: information consumption is becoming increasingly fragmented and customized, with consumers cherry-picking content in terms of both medium and message. Technological innovation drives this fragmentation, as we can see with [...]
Filed in Brand Community Media Strategy, Custom Media, Custom Publishing, Publishing Strategy | 22-Sep-07 | no comments
Outward Bound: The Value of Print Media Sidebar to You’ve Got Mail: e-tailers Push Postal Mail Despite the growth of electronic publishing, whether via websites, email newsletters, e-books, blogs, or podcasts, print media delivered the old fashioned way still serves a critical function in a well-rounded communications program. If you’re looking for a way to motivate, cajole, or inspire consumers to respond, a [...]
Filed in Brand Community Media Process, Brand Community Media Strategy, Custom Media, Custom Publishing, Publishing Strategy | 05-Sep-07 | no comments
You’ve Got Mail: e-tailers Push Postal Mail Powerhouse e-tailers push postal mail to break through and motivate By Audrey Kalman As a Netflix subscriber, Land’s End customer, and habitual user of Amazon for everything from Mother’s Day gifts to ink cartridges, I receive regular e-mails from all three companies and visit their websites several times a month. By almost any measure, I’m a [...]
Filed in Brand Community Media Process, Brand Community Media Strategy, Custom Media, Custom Publishing, Email and Social Media Marketing, Publishing Strategy | 05-Sep-07 | no comments