I tweeted the other day Digitally creative, innovative, design savvy, experiential , savvy to the user experience, agile, hungry = creative tech agency – So what does this mean and or refer to?

I was thinking about our small boutique agency. As we continue to grow and create successful campaigns for our clients, we work to carve out a space for those companies who greatly desire our skill, expertise, creative tech skills & bandwidth -while meeting and exceeding their objectives. Yes and keeping the money in their pockets with low cost innovation and implementation and high returns. Some believe the more “likers” and followers you have the better success you will be – yet they forget that it is quality not quantity you want via information and engagement. There is today no accident that your neighbor, former high school teacher, doctor, dentist and boss former & current are all on Facebook. (Yes we may all want to take an extra minute to review our privacy settings) It means that all the brands you can think of, businesses, products and services know we are all there too and they are looking for new marcom partners and business advisers to help them reach all of us. Both online and offline. It will be those such as ourselves with a wealth of award winning traditional talent and  savvy experiential technical talent – who clearly understand and can translate that user experience – on an array of platforms, that will help you knock it out of the park- in reaching that customer in the place you desire to have them go. Read the rest of this entry »

Sorry for not being able to post regularly over the last few days. We have been in mass presentation mode and so the story goes……well I think that the story is Tiger Woods…..it’s been everywhere 24/7. I just saw on one of my twitter feeds that a story about the Navy Seals was quelched due to the media frenzy about Tiger Woods.
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In the last few days, “thought leadership and innovation” has been a discussion topic between myself and several different business people. It was first brought to my attention a few days ago by someone who passed on the assessment (from another business associate) that, after reviewing my blog posts, they felt I was not showcasing our business skills, expertise and brand offering because I was including full articles written by others below my daily thoughts. The reason I began this blog was to use the premise of our business name, SHARE, to share with people what I read.
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In 2009, there is no longer a business out there that can negate the importance of social responsibility as a key component of their brand identity. The current global economy, the planet and our communities—both local and global—demand the respect and commitment from all of us on a business and personal level. Many brand evangelists are now committing themselves to products and services whose corporate social responsibility is associated with their own values. Social media is now beginning to be seen as a vital tool in allowing these businesses to demonstrate how they are using their business, their brand (and their employees) to assist them in their mission to be good corporate citizens.
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It has been a while since I have used one of Seth Godin’s posts. Everything he writes is of value and I urge all of you to sign up for his blog. I have suggested, on many occasions, that having a strategic plan before you implement any kind of social media is vital. Many people have a problem with this as they can’t find the extra budget for this part of a project and time for this extra process. The decision makers for many businesses sometimes feel that they need to just dive in—the plan from their perspective was discussed in meetings. All the papers from the Economist to the Wall Street Journal talk about the success of social media so they dive in without a strategic plan.
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I thought this topic was quite apropos as a lot of what we read in blogs such as this one is viral. We receive and share information about things we are interested in. We sign up for blogs or newsletters and many of us share the information we receive with others who we know will be interested in having the info, who then do the same thing—pass it on.
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