Tag Archives: Strategy

Gamification – Level 2

I’ve spent quite some in the last week exploring gamification – going through documentation and perspectives that have been shared online. While there’s a simplicity in the basic concept, application is a totally different story. So as with all games, … Continue reading

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Consumer Tracks

I heard a very interesting quote recently, attributed to Rishad Tobaccowala – When consumers hear about a product today, their first reaction is ‘Let me search online for it.’ And so they go on a journey of discovery: about a … Continue reading

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All hands on deck

Since tis still the season of predictions and ‘looking forward to in 2011′, and because I brought up the subject of brand agencies reshaping themselves for the future, I thought I’d share with you three of my favourite decks of … Continue reading

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Group Pwn

I’ve never gotten around to trying group buying/deal sites until once recently, though I always thought that they were fulfilling a need for businesses and consumers. But when I read this ‘peculiar’ story titled Groupon’s Success Disaster, I found myself … Continue reading

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Brand Chats – Google & Godin

Last week, Seth Godin’s company Squidoo launched “Brands in Public” (BIP from now), a  service which creates pages -’public-facing dashboards’ that aggregate conversations about brands on Twitter, YouTube and blogs, in addition to news, videos, images etc. BIP will create … Continue reading

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Flipping news models

Google’s Fast Flip has been receiving quite a lot of attention these days. Based on the Google News model of aggregation and categorisation, Google has partnered with quite  few sources including BBC, BusinessWeek, Washington Post, New York time, to name … Continue reading

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Social deluxe

Sometime back, Mashable had an interesting post on luxury brands and social media. While a few points were raised on the challenges, the one that interested me most was how the facet of  ‘exclusivity’ could be balanced with the relatively … Continue reading

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Big brands, small ideas

I ended last week’s post with a note that social media services provide brands a way of having their lifestream online, and weaving themselves into the consumers’ context. Last week, I read an interesting article on Six Pixels of Separation … Continue reading

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Bloody cool. They’ve earned it. Cheers.

Ok, that was a fairly long and (to some of you) meaningless title, but that was the only way I could think of, to connect the three brands whose activities on Twitter make up this post. Since I rarely come … Continue reading

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Paper Capers

Almost 2 months since we last discussed newspapers, so I thought its a good time to update. Rumour is that Murdoch plans to sue Google and Yahoo over news services. Fact is that he’s going to charge for news, something … Continue reading

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