Minter Dialogue #71 This interview, recorded on August 22 2013, is with Thibault Villet, co-founder and CEO of Glamour Sales China, a luxury flash sale site, and part of the Glamour Sales Group. Having met Thibault in Shanghai this summer, we recorded this show, to...
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4 keys to creating a winning Digital Marketing Strategy
We can, at last, affirm that Digital Marketing has gone mainstream for all FMCG companies – around the world. As companies continue to focus in on their digital marketing strategy and investments, the challenge remains integrating and blending the digital...
Email Marketing – How Much Do The New Gmail Inbox Change The Game?
As email marketing remains one of the cheapest and most effective digital marketing tools around, you would think that a marketing team might be more inclined to invest in and hire an email marketing specialist than a social media specialist. It remains my...
Suffering from Red Bull Syndrome? How Dangerous is it for Business?
How many times do you think executive committees around the world have discussed the Red Bull brand? Ever wondered what they might say or think? Within this conversation, I suspect we will find what are the dangers of the Red Bull Syndrome. Red Bull Syndrome What is...
Geeky creativity – Why being geek and upping your Digital IQ can spur innovation
Where some management is still hanging on to its guarded precepts and habits (reading good 'ole fashioned books, sticking to the 4P's of marketing, management by fear and control...), other businesses are running full head of steam. Some teams just seem to be in...
Capitalizing on Wishes for Birthday – Social CRM do’s and don’ts
It has been a few years now that birthdays are now filled with electronic wishes. We receive a great many more than in the past, with the bulk of them coming on social media (especially Facebook). Birthdays are a classic for CRM-minded organizations. On...
Where is your Brand value added? The case of Value Extraction with Equivalenza
As brand marketers, we spend our careers putting value into our proposition. That is what we are trained and paid to do. Agencies such as Millward Brown and Interbrand have created indices to evaluate brand equity via proprietary algorithms. Meanwhile, on...
How Should An Executive Lead The Digital Transformation Charge?
In driving digital transformation, I have long called for executive leadership to be the change they are wishing to see happen within the organization and to up the executive digital IQ. In a short cut, this would mean that the top executive should not just sponsor,...
The Burberry Kiss xx – The latest digital initiative from a classic British fashion brand
The mavens of digital marketing in retail, Burberry, led by the visionary CEO Angela Ahrendts and Chief Creative Officer, Christopher Bailey, have struck again. Partnering with Google, the Burberry Kisses initiative (launched in June 2013) shows just...

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I’m Minter Dial and I serve my clients by elevating the debate and energy, telling powerful stories and connecting people and ideas. My mission to insert more meaningfulness into our lives and at work. I relish being an engaging professional speaker on leadership, transformation and branding. I’m known for being someone who walks the talk and delivers on or above expectations. I’m the author of four award-winning books, including the second edition of my award-winning book, Heartificial Empathy (April 2023, available in English and French), You Lead published by Kogan Page that won the Business Book Award 2022, and Futureproof (FT-Press/Pearson) that won the Business Book Award 2018. I’m also the producer of the award-winning WWII book and documentary film The Last Ring Home.
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