I know I don’t post as often as I should on this blog but perhaps that just as well as this domain will be the home of “Anton Mannering – A Digital Agency” as of next week. We were delighted to soft launch this week with a skeleton crew and to take on board our…
Repost from March 2012… Great ideas, great marketing and even greats music is usually (not always) simple. Beautifully magnificently, awesomely simple. There is a habit, in our lazy use of language, of confusing the idea of simple with the idea of easy. Making a point in a long rambling discussion is easy. It requires knowledge…
There has been much ado about Viral marketing over the last few years since the explosion of social sharing. If you have a viral marketing hit then it can seem beneficial in the short term, but how beneficial? Double edged sword IT is important to remember though that viral marketing can be a double edged…
Originally posted on LinkedIn John Wanamaker would have loved the 21st century. He would have especially loved the transfer to Digital that seems to be so difficult for so many businesses and agencies, some of whom still actively reject digital methodologies internally even when they claim to be digital agencies. Sounds nuts right? But the…
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” – Abraham Maslow, 1966 Many who have mastered a particular marketing discipline, either recently or over time, develop a tendency to see everything through the lens of that discipline. This is something…
Originally posted to Linkedin I know that people have a lot of complicated metrics and pyramids and explanations for these things, but the truth is there are actually very few factors at play in why people buy anything. Here’s a list of the reasons. Perception of difference from competing solutions Perception of value relative to competing…