Every once in a while there comes a movie that makes you think when you’re watching but leaves you with a sense of wonder once it’s done. Based on a popular book I am yet to read, Cloud Atlas uses the same idea of the reincarnated group of souls as one of my favourite novels: The Years of Rice and Salt.
Recommended book: World War Z
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I like books on history, science, science fiction and the odd work-related thing, so I didn’t expect to like this one so much. Couldn’t put it down during the Easter weekend. The richness of the story, the well-planned progression and the variety of characters lent it an air of authenticity, even if some minor facts would on a couple of occasions detract from the experience (if you are going to write Spanish phrases, make sure you know how they’re spelled). I don’t give 5 stars lightly, but to me this is a classic like “Forever War” or “I am Legend”, mixed with enough Anthony Beevor to suspend disbelief.
Recommended book: The New North: The World in 2050
The New North: The World in 2050. Laurence C. Smith by Laurence C. Smith
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book raised significant interest here in Finland, and it is not difficult to see why. Reminds me a lot of Joel Diamond’s work (for good or bad) without the hysteria. You can see it started as a climate change study that turned into an exercise in geopolitical prospection. You might or might not agree with its future scenarios, but it was an interesting and not too heavy read.
Weekly tweets from 2013-03-25 to 2013-03-31
- 2 penalties, 2. ->
- Uno de los equipos mexicanos con más talento comprobado de la historia la está regando en la clasificación al Mundial. ¿WTF? ->
- Holy mother of God almighty! ->
- ¿Si no es el Chepo, quién? ->
- Me quiero volver chango. ->
- Australian store charges customers a $5 'just looking' fee in bid to stop showrooming http://t.co/Zwh6bJXKjS ->
- How robots are eating the last of America’s—and the world’s—traditional manufacturing jobs http://t.co/XyinxMVuIZ via @qz ->
- How the internet is making us poor http://t.co/hSh3ktEay2 via @qz ->
- Ouch / Mexico has succeeded in spite of 'Chepo' de la Torre http://t.co/9dOY9BJnVi cc @sancadilla @martindelp ->
- Ylimielisyyteen ei ole varaa: http://t.co/9o5lCfWRND ->
- Reading #babychiva a Spanish translation of the Moomins I came to understand how the words we use define us. ->
- ha terminado Barca de Graham Hunter y le ha otorgado 5 estrellas http://t.co/fj3ZVioxPd ->
Libro recomendado: Instrucciones para vivir en México
Instrucciones para vivir en México by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Aunque en algunos pasajes se nota que el libro fue escrito hace cuarenta años, su aguda crítica y excelente sentido del humor lo hacen más vigente de lo que debería para un país que ha cambiado tanto (y tan poco) como México. Recomendable.
Weekly tweets from 2013-03-18 to 2013-03-24
- Oh que la chin… ->
- El Maza es un animal, dos errores, dos goles. No llega al Mundial. ->
- Al menos hay justicia, no vamos a tener que sufrir al Maza el próximo partido. ->
- Los que se quejan porque Ochoa dejó el balón listo para el contrarremate nunca han parado un penal. ->
- Me quedo con los huevos de Finlandia, no con la deshuevada del Maza y los árbitros Concakafkianos. ->
- Así se narró en Finlandia el gol del empate en España: http://t.co/wSGtrrEAKu #gijóninihme ->
- Vileä muistellaan eilisen Pukin tekemän maalin: http://t.co/wSGtrrEAKu #gijóninihme ->
- Finnish fans are calling last night's match "The miracle of Gijón" http://t.co/wSGtrrEAKu #gijóninihme cc @sidlowe ->
- In other news, Mexico ended up tying a game it was leading 2-2 in Honduras. El Tri hasn't won there for 20 years. http://t.co/ORcdc33Ufx ->
- . @iamwill featuring @JoanSebastian: http://t.co/GeHAWvoRVg Imagine @tiesto featuring Kari Tapio. 😉 ->
Marketing automation seminar, March 2013
1st presenter: Torsti Tenhunen
Marketing-making robot or channel?
VistaPrint as an example: customised per user, not general
Measure effectiveness: attract, nurture, prioritize, sell
Questions for today:
Can we forget target segments and segmentation?
Can we forget campaigns?
What happens to creatives?
What does an advertising agency do?
Success stories?
Can it be integrated across all marketing communications?
Role in customer journey?
How does it increase sales and marketing cooperation?
Social media as part of automated marketing?
2nd presenter: Susanna Juusti, ID BBN
Iron Mountain case: Where’s your tipping point?
Different needs. Prospects helped along the customer journey with automated nurture emails.
Main objectives: 2k markering qualified leads from SMEs around Europe/ nurture leads with right messages.
Target audience:B2B stakeholders: business owners, records manager, IT manager, HR, etc.
Campaign visualized through creative execution in marketing communication.
Messages for needs mapped across audience profiles, buying journeys, job functions.
Messages for awareness, interest and consideration phases.
Campaign website: landing pages for 7 different job functions and 6 different product areas: TECS-mapped clearly which content was leading to which page, etc.
3k leads and 7:1ROI.
Atos case
Partner in the London Olympics
Personal bests: 5 different solutions using every possible channel, but digitally-led.
Bilt to take advantage not only of the event itself but a huge before and after contact plan.
Eloqua used for automation:41k mails, 140 different mail creatives, 130 landing pages, 6 languages, 5 solutions.
Results: 5k contacts, 10% new, some became active, 2.5% super active. 1bn€ pipleine, 100m€ already sold.
No more digital marketing as a separate channel.
Tecnology-enabled contact strategy (TECS)
Framework for contact strategies to help clients see big picture and build up and integrate all marketing channels.
Systematic working process.
Content, content, content.
3rd presenter: Heikki Karjaluoto, Jyväskylän yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulu
Has traditional marketing reached the end of the line?
Moving from leads to quality leads.
Nike: our best athletes help us create better products, at the end of the day, it’s all about the product.
Connect with the customer: let’s be where the consumers are and prove them with great content and great stories.
From one to many (product, price, place, promotion) to many to many communication (customer solution, customer cost, convenience, communication).
Marketing: managinng profitable customer relationships: CRM
Keeping customers and acquiring customers.
Social corporation, social CRM in the future: because customer is in power
Marketing auitomation: customer recognition, customer classification, communication and offering customisation.
Inbound vs outbound marketing: soft sell vs hard sell.
Example: ollijunes.com, micro company creating leads through social.
Case: HubSpot, 50k leads/month!
Marketing has changed, focus on relationships, service and digitalization.
In a nutshell: Strengthening of multichannel comminication, customer dialogue facilitation and measurement.
4th presenter: Riina Kirmanen, Vaisala
Why is marketing being reborn, marketing automation, digital ecosystem, case studies and measurement.
Vaisala has a Digital Center of Excellence!
From traditional marketing to relationship/digital/content marketing
From sales support to lead generator to business partner.
Marketing objectives in line with business strategies.
Roles of sales and marketing are changing because of: marketing technology, engagement, targeting, conversion, analytics.
Marketing digital ecosystem
Content marketing: leads/sales opportunities from all sources (see picture)
To be developed vs. sales-qualified leads.
Case Vaisala knowledge eNewsletter programme: small reach but very well targeted, unsubscription rate below 1%. Planned with conversion points. Integrated with sales so that salesperson knows when visiting a customer what he/she has done on website for the last year and a half.
Case Vaisala nurturing programmes: what is the path that I want a customer to take, depending on solution? Content assets. Not campaign thinking here, just keep it going! SEM campaign thinking of triggers. Thought through together with sales in terms of messages and role of each.
Lead scoring: explicit and implicit data!
Webinars: 50 per year, excellent assets for conversion.
Social media: not a priority channel, but gives good leads and helps with thought leadership.
Measurement: how well do we help implement execution. Currently 445 active campaigns, less than 1% hard bounces. 6k€ company subscriber value for newsletter. 2/3 of leads through digital channels. Some segments more mature to start the customer journey digitally than others.
Change management by flying below the radar, get results, then tell everybody.
5th presenter: Mika Autio, Ruukki
Installation service, ruukkiroofs.com
Ruukkiroofs before used to be about getting a roof off through a form. Now it has approachable, professional and local. Built on top of eloqua and salesforce. Etsi kattomestari or tilaa kattomestari. Traffic driven from display, sem, newsletters, own webpage, exhibition materials, facebook.
Automatic email confirmation to customer and lead sms to roof installer.
Campaign planned and ready-made for different scenarios, sales on board for a developing campaign, ab testing done, deployed in under 6 weeks, 100% sales increase YoY.
Measurement to be improved, as it wasn’t defined in the beginning. Do now, ask for forgiveness later ;-).
6th presenter: Susanna Repo, Veikkaus
Systematic customer feedback for improving customer service and business results.
1000 customers every day. They cannot advertise, but need to differentiate through product and service development.
Case Jokeri: huge customer feedback numbers when the game changed, advertising changed, character changed, but didnt’t immediately analyse so lost two months since feedback was quite bad. How to change?
Worked with Etuma to change situation and do proper feedback analysis.
Case Lotto & Viking Lotto: smaller prizes available after customer feedback, increased sales and revenue. Later expanded to all players.
Bettable events: added NBA & Jukolan Viesti after customer feedbaack. However, cannot do everything: Indian customers asked for cricket.
Custom benefits: no more codes, only click a button for customer recognition.
Customer service: while customers wanted longer hours, it was not profitable.
Customer feedback processing further automated in real time in the future, included in business processes! Currently using Whitevector for monitoring.
7th presenter: Timo Kruskopf, Idea Development Oy
Marketing automation and creative
A idea is always needed, brands still need a story, a point of view, automation helps with message repetition.
Now it is simply easier to reach more audiences through different channels.
Content needs to be planned to for use at different parts of the consumer journey.
Idea needs to work at each stage of the consumer journey.
Evaluating big long ideas: head, heart, holy shit.
8th presenter: Heikki Karjaluoto, Jyväskylän yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulu
Measurement needs to not be too much, or danger is to lose the forest for the trees (no red thread).
On the contrary, measurements can give peace for creativity.
9th presenter: Torsti Tenhunen
A brand needs to have a personality and a story.
Long, reactive campaigns that are always on.
Simpler to get different leads.
Weekly tweets from 2013-03-11 to 2013-03-17
- Finnish stereotypes about Roman Catholics and Catholicism drive me nuts. There's a lot of variety in 1 billion people. ->
- Pope Francis: 13 key facts about the new pontiff http://t.co/kwD5bN8ZEv via @guardian ->
- Blog Post: Next step in my career: I joined Marketing Clinic, the largest marketing consulting firm in the Nor… http://t.co/sDo3UAerJ9 ->
- -21 according to my phone, -15 according to the balcony thermometer. Too cold for mid-march anyway. 🙂 ->
- Blog Post: Facebook marketing seminar, March 2013: [View the story "Facebookmarkkinointi seminaari 5.3.2013" o… http://t.co/WOWl8z3f6F ->
- #babychiva has been ill and I'm tired. Just read "suomalainen pianomusiikki" as "suomalainen panomusiikki" & was like "that's quite liberal" ->
- Blog Post: Marketing Clinic: Adapting to the marketing changes brought by digital technologies: First blog pos… http://t.co/RLoMuCJRrG ->
- Blog Post: Marketing Clinic: Digital marketing planning: Original post here, but content below:
In my previous… http://t.co/OKktS4OAvb -> - Milloin henkilökohtainen kokemus muuttuu rasismiksi? http://t.co/uLKDiWAFs0 Kommentit ovat todella surullisia. ->
- Gol del Mallorca, bello centro,de Gio dos Santos. ->
- Obús de Modric. Lástima que la defensa del Mallorca no aguantara. A ver si se levantan. ->
- Why we moirn Google Reader and why it matters: http://t.co/owJuNrBWpt) ->
- Agsinst lethal smart drones. Skynet? http://t.co/TAlsWvBbEM via @ahope71 ->
- #babychiva is totally enthralled with mini einsteins. ->
- Finnish high school students keep visiting my LinkedIn profile (& have profiles of their own). Anybody got any idea why? O_o ->
Marketing Clinic: Digital marketing planning
Original post here, but content below:
In my previous post I gave a small overview of what are the challenges marketers have to solve now that digital media has become mainstream and how these changes affect their processes and competitive environment.
A tool that has served me well to frame and plan marketing activities (not only in digital, but digitally-led) is the owned, bough, earned, traded media framework, which I became very familiar with in a previous position. The beauty of it lies in the way it helps to organise and rethink your marketing activities per touchpoint, audience addressed and role, so instead of looking at a list of tactical activities a marketing manager has building blocks to create, execute and measure engaging marketing communication and eventually experiences.
Naturally you can find some material around this topic on the web, but if you want to get concrete examples on how to use this for your own marketing activities, you should join us at the Talent Clinic this spring. Stay tuned!
Marketing Clinic: Adapting to the marketing changes brought by digital technologies
First blog post in the Marketing Clinic blog. Content below:
Catharina in her blog post mentioned the changes that have happened in the media landscape in the past few years, where customers are always on, opinionated and talk back in real time. We believe many marketers haven’t adapted to this new reality, especially if they have so far dealt with traditional media.
As mentioned in this post from Digiday, CMOs and marketing managers still make the mistake of trying to control the brand because they come from a background of controlling the message. With many-to-many communication, it becomes tough for these leaders as they need to let go a little. A brand’s real meaning is only what the customers think it is.
Furthermore, the variety of products, channels, consumers and competition make marketing strategy definition, activity planning and execution less straightforward than in the past. Why? Oftentimes marketing managers don’t know where to start and the competences needed at all levels of the organization are much more varied than ever before: service design, social media analysis and search engine buyers were disciplines that were not in the marketing toolbox ten years ago.
In order to help their brands grow, marketers need to plan when and how to move from shouting to enabling and participating in conversations and creating engaging experiences. In my next post, I will give you some ideas.