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Examples of Lateral Thinking in Marketing

Destination Innovation

Brand marketing offers tremendous scope for lateral thinking. Its whole branding, messaging and advertising is posited on one ridiculously obscure piece of lateral thinking – that customers might confuse the words market and meerkat and so search for comparethemeerkat.com. How can you differentiate yourself?

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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What if the current use of your product were banned?

Destination Innovation

In a brilliant piece of marketing it repurposed diamonds as symbols of love and devotion. ’ It was voted the best advertising slogan of the 20th century. Its advertising tag line was ‘Lucozade aids recovery’ Mothers bought it for their sick children. It was promoted as a health drink and sold in pharmacies.

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Programmatic buying: The high-tech, data-driven way to manage ad buys in real time — and drive business results

Brunner

Gone are the days when advertisers had to rely on a tedious process of negotiating deals with individual account reps channel by channel, committing to ad buys, and waiting for days to receive data. These systems, called demand-side-platforms, or DSPs, allow advertisers to place ads across a number of platforms. “We’re

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My Experience with Innovation Influencing

Phil McKinney

Innovation influencer marketing is a new and exciting way to get your company's customers and investors on board. The history of influencer marketing dates back to the early days of traditional advertising. Recently, the term “influencer marketing” has become popular thanks to the rise of social media.

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Context matters

Boxes and Arrows

What makes a marketing e-mail or newsletter efficient? The act of clicking certain element in a marketing e-mail is a result of a longer process of identifying, assimilating, and analyzing its content. But what to include in the marketing message instead of introductory blah-blah text? Directing users’ attention by faces.

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Lessons from Apple and the Swiss Watch makers

Rmukesh Gupta

It took decades of innovations and millions of dollars in advertising for the Swiss watch industry to become the cynosure of watch lovers. In my opinion, true adoption if smart watches started to take off as early as 2013 when Pebble launched as a result of a wildly successful kickstarter campaign. Lessons learnt: 1.

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