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Dinheiro Vivo: Influenciadores 2.0

Dinheiro Vivo: Influenciadores 2.0

Ana Rita Guerra of the Spanish-language Dinheiro Vivo blog recently did an overview of the 2018 VidCon conference, focusing particularly on what lessons can be learned from the recently disastrous Fyre Festival, and quotes extensively from Brian Solis’ event keynote address. Excerpt: A chave está, disse Solis, na criação de algo que o cliente percebe como útil. “A utilidade é o novo viral”, referiu, citando algumas percentagens de crescimento interessantes nas pesquisas do Google. Por exemplo, tanto a busca por…

To innovate or advance digital transformation, look outside your industry

To innovate or advance digital transformation, look outside your industry

My good friend and journalist Dan Tynan wrote two exceptional pieces on digital transformation in Adweek, “5 Steps for Digitally Transforming Your Marketing to Be More Responsive to Customer Needs” and “Why Old-School Brands Like Gap Need to Learn New Tricks to Survive in the Digital Age.” If you’re not in marketing, please don’t stop reading yet! This is bigger than marketing. This is about organizational innovation and transformation. Dan and I spent time together talking through what digital transformation…

Marketing to Generation Z starts by unlearning traditional marketing principles

Marketing to Generation Z starts by unlearning traditional marketing principles

Guest post by Connor Blakley (@BlakleySpeaks), a serial entrepreneur, adviser, speaker, and youth marketing/branding strategist. He’s also a teenager and someone whom I mentor. Connor was named as the ¨#1 High School Entrepreneur to Watch in 2016¨” by StartUp Grind Generation Z, America’s youngest generation (Born in 1996 or later) has never lived in a time when the barrier to real-time information and communication has been nearly nonexistent. By 2020, Gen Z will account for 40% of all consumers, making it more important…

LinkedIn: Why We’re Hungry for Remarkable Content [Infographic]

LinkedIn: Why We’re Hungry for Remarkable Content [Infographic]

Did you know that 4.6 billion pieces of content are produced daily? In the last 30 years, we as humans have produced more information than in the previous 5,000. We check our phones 110 times a day and email 30 times every hour. Social media has overtaken everything to become the number one activity on the web. Getting attention has never been harder or more important. Yet many marketers continue to contribute to the content glut rather than lead the…

Why Customer Experience is The Catalyst for Digital Transformation

Why Customer Experience is The Catalyst for Digital Transformation

As a digital analyst, I spend a lot of his time thinking about the future of customer experience. So much so that my next book attempts to rethink the term “experience,” X:The Experience of Business Meets Design. “X” explores experience architecture the various ways companies can design meaningful and shareable experiences in every moment of truth. I recently spent time with the team at VisionCritical as part of the prep for its their upcoming conference in Chicago,  2015 Vision Critical…

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