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Nick Niche

Trendwatching has a small preview of the consumer trends of 2009 – half a dozen, to be exact. You can catch all 6 here. The one that interested me most was “nichetributes”, which is defined as the power of making … Continue reading

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BoT – Brands on Twitter

A few days back, there were a couple of very interesting posts on Mashable – on the topic of whether brands belong to Twitter- one post against, and a couple of days later, a rebuttal. The first post first suggests … Continue reading

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Figuring Social Media?

Recently, Jeremiah Owyang wrote about Intel’s community efforts, which also throws light on the join vs create debate that has intrigued me too, for quite sometime. Intel’s marketing manager is of the view that companies should join active communities, rather … Continue reading

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Dido and Social Media – Rock On !!

At the very outset, let me state that Dido doesn’t have to do anything spectacular for her to be special to me. She can just keep crooning her stuff, and I’ll keep going back for more. So why am i … Continue reading

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Change 2.0

The world, or at least most of it, has been applauding the success of Obama’s social media strategy, stating it as one of the big pillars of his victory, and rightfully so. A look at his homepage would tell you … Continue reading

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Social Advertising

A post on the WindChimes blog sparked off an interesting argument on whether banner advertising on Facebook is called Social Media Marketing. But before we step into that, a quick look at what Facebook has been upto recently. Facebook recently … Continue reading

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Locally cold, globally cool

Like I commented here,  my reaction to Coke’s latest TVC is one of its own iconic tag lines – Thanda Matlab Coca Cola. The ad, which tries to showcase that Coke, in the festive season of Diwali brings family, friends … Continue reading

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Creating Super Brands

Found an excellent article shared via Reader (thanks to @vimoh) which sought to mash marketing, and more specifically, social media into the life of Superman. Through this example, and three different scenarios, it shows the typical position of an older … Continue reading

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Social Branding (3 of 3)

I’d mentioned in my last post on the subject, about a study which showed that 93% of online Americans wanted companies to have a social media presence, and believed these companies also should be interacting with consumers through social media, with … Continue reading

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