I used to think that the entertainment and technology industries were on opposite sides of the industry spectrum - they couldn’t be the furthest from each other. I felt that way about marketing within these two industries, too. Since I have been a marketer in both these arenas – I consider myself living at the [...]
Let's face it. You are a brand. What you communicate is your brand essence (your values, what you are all about). You can spin it to something else, but it always comes back to your brand essence. Brand is not about product. Its about values. Your values come across through your products. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjxacrSCYRE&w=420&h=315] Apple lives [...]
A few years ago, I wrote an article about Win-Loss Analysis for Product Managers. This is an update of that article. Marketers need to show their internal and external customers the value they bring to the table. Internal customers you say? The first group is Sales. Marketing can go a long way to close the [...]
Ouya, a gaming console that runs on Android, scored a major win with their Kickstarter campaign. So how can you be effective on Kickstarter and achieve success? 1. To copy Stephen Covey, "begin with the end in mind" or in this case, begin with the audience, or the potential customer, in mind. Who is your audience? [...]
I have been thinking about this koan Steve Jobs used when developing the first Mac - "Real Artists Ship". I couldn't agree more. As product people, we must produce. That means, plan, develop, launch and manage. Keeping to schedules is key. Like Gordon Gecko's famous line in Wall Street, "greed is good", "shipping is good". [...]
Welcome to the new home of M4 Communications and our blog. The blog will include discussions about Marketing, Branding, PR, Product Marketing, Technology, Communications and Entertainment and how we use all of them to navigate through our world. We hope you will take this journey with us and we can learn from each other. We [...]
