by Minter Dial | Dec 19, 2011 | Marketing
Storytelling is all the rage… In a quest for content, brands are looking to create stories to recount (online, in particular). The catch is that the stories must resonate with their audience and, more pressingly, must ring true for the employees. I see...
by Minter Dial | Dec 8, 2011 | Branding, Internet of Things
Getting used to ambiguity in the world of digital marketing Merging the Personal & Professional Last week, I wrote (post: Virtually Real) about the existential challenge for brand marketers to live with a whole assortment of ambiguities. These ambiguities center...
by Minter Dial | Dec 6, 2011 | Social Media
Oyé Oyé: managers listen up In the 16 years that I worked in the professional salon business around the world for L’Oreal (Redken, Kerastase…), I met a great number of extraordinary men and women who are hairdressers, several of whom I still...
by Minter Dial | Nov 25, 2011 | Branding
Raising questions that need an answer There are some questions that you may never have thought about and, yet, once you hear them, you wonder how it is that you never came across that question before and, worse, that you do not know the answer. For example, have you...
by Minter Dial | Nov 8, 2011 | Social Media
To be personal, standard bearer and/or institutional in digital media? If you are interested in digital marketing, it is hard not to take interest in what has been happening in the political spheres around the world online. Politicians and political parties face major...