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Friday 11th March 2011
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MicroMarketing: Get Big Results by Thinking and Acting Small
by Greg Verdino
In our age of information saturation, consumer attention is the scarcest commodity of all—which makes your job tougher than ever. How do you thread your messages through billions of bite-sized information snapshots to reach the right people? One thing’s for sure, you’re not going to succeed using traditional approaches. Mass marketing is dead; the next big thing is indeed very small. microMARKETING empowers you to rethink, retool, and revitalize your marketing strategies to take full advantage of the opportunities created by the microcontent explosion. A pioneer in the world of microcontent marketing, Greg Verdino helps you create a strategy that emphasizes relationships over reach, interaction over interruption, and social networking over broadcast networks.
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My Kindergartner Markets Better Than You
by Dave Peck and Kriselle Laran
Marketing is a fine line between sales and PR. This panel aims to focus on the rudimentary principles of marketing often overlooked by both new and established businesses. Special attention will be paid to "playground tactics" and ways that kids can influence others with far more success than adults.
Kids have a natural instinct for marketing - they learn early in life to bring enough for everyone, to become an expert at everything, and to share just enough to make the friends but not so much where they turn others away.
By approaching marketing like a five year old, brands can develop and maintain a strong identity and establish a role as an influencer in the industry. Applying concepts like bringing enough for everyone (appealing to a wide range of audiences), or staying out of detention (being marked as spam), brands too can become an expert at everything (establish itself as an industry leader).
A typical five-year-old can identify common commercial jingles and name the season's popular toys. Five minutes in a playgroup can result in families having to take a trip to the toy store because of the influence of other kids on their own children.
Kindergartners have a lot of influence. Its time to start following their lead and start learning the right way to approach marketing.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Saturday 12th March 2011
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Brave New World: Debating Brands' Role as Publishers
by Gary Kim, Joe Pulizzi, Lora Kolodny, Pawan Deshpande and Tom Ashbrook
Gone are the days when brands needed to rely on high profile stories to establish credibility –today, brand marketers become content curators by mingling content from trusted sources with their own material. Long gone is the need to purchase ad space in a relevant trade publication—instead, they just create their own site on the topic. At time when the line is increasingly blurred between the role of marketer and publisher, it is a brave new world out there for brands.
As part of a lively debate on what role brands should play in this brave new world, experts from the publishing, marketing, and internet worlds will come together to address some of the most heated concerns about this changing landscape –including matters of transparency and trust, concern over copyright and fair sharing, and where to draw the line between reporting and selling.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead
by David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan
What can internet marketers learn from cultural icon and American jam band, the Grateful Dead?
The Grateful Dead is a great case study in contrarian marketing. Their marketing innovations spurred from doing the opposite of what other bands (and record labels) were doing at that time.
Starting in the internet-free 1960s, the Grateful Dead pioneered social media and inbound marketing concepts that businesses of all industries still use today. Ahead of their time, they believed in "freemium" content and created a huge network of people who recorded and traded tapes. They focused on cultivating a dedicated and vocal community that drove millions of fans to the band's live shows for over thirty years, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Today's companies using social media can still learn from their success.
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Brand Consistency Is Killing Digital Advertising
by Justin Cox
Companies often stress the importance of consistency—a consistent image, voice, strategy, etc. Countless models and presentations have been created to help brands maintain continuity. But, does consistency really equal success? It certainly can for things like product quality or customer service. When it comes to the world of marketing, however, consistency is overrated and overused. This issue is most apparent in the digital space, where print and TV campaigns are routinely repurposed as banner ads and pre-roll videos. Compounding the problem, marketers often duplicate digital ads across sites that have little in common with one another, ignoring the fact that consumers behave differently as they move around online. New disciplines and technologies have emerged, giving the industry unprecedented ways to reach consumers. Digital advertising should reflect these changes and inspire brands to be flexible, schizophrenic even. An argument could be made that no two ads should ever be the same. To achieve this, the industry must embrace a new order of advertising—one that champions inconsistency. One where publishers and agencies work together to create custom marketing content. Where ads for Heineken can’t be replicated as ads for BudLite. Where consumers experience advertising that is inextricable from the place where they are experiencing it. And where the goal is not to keep a brand on track, but to create unique experiences that compel consumers to engage on a deeper level.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Sunday 13th March 2011
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Daily Deals: Where Ads Become Content
by Aaron Batalion, Jim Moran, Tricia Han and Jonty Kelt
Local deals, once relegated to the weekly circular, now drive the fastest growing sector in internet history. Groupon, LivingSocial, BuyWithMe and others created a billion dollar industry almost overnight. Local publishers have influenced our spending for years, but they are finding a powerful new monetization vehicle as offline commerce comes online. Hundreds of publishers have launched Daily Deal products in the last six months, and this is just the beginning.
The founders of LivingSocial, DailyCandy Deals, Group Commerce and Yipit will discuss the future of the Daily Deal space and how local media companies, apps and directories are adapting to it.LEVEL: Intermediate
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Social Marketing in Real-Time
How to Engage Your Market, Connect with Customers, and Create Products that Grow Your Business Now. In every market, there is room for smart organizations to seize market share and improve profits by providing a product or service or communications initiative at speed. Real-time marketing and public relations is when organizations respond to events as they occur. It's when companies develop (or refine) products or services instantly, based on feedback from customers or events in the marketplace. And it's when businesses see an opportunity and are the first to act on it.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Influencers Will Inherit the Earth. Quick, Market Them!
by Anthony Ha, DJ Patil, Joe Fernandez, Mike Yavonditte and Sloane Berrent
With a growing number of marketing activities taking place online today, the search is on to find the best way to market to online consumers. In this panel, we’ll discuss how influencer marketing may just be the ticket everyone has been waiting for and how best to use it.
Influences are at the top of the knowledge dissemination pyramid. Look at “RT @guykawasaki” and you immediately get a sense of the power influencers have to spread information. They have a unique ability to surface interesting information and package it in a way that makes people want to click-through and act, whether through purchasing or retweeting.
The idea behind influencer marketing is that it centers around identifying influencers, marketing to them and then marketing through them to reach the consumers whose attention they hold captive. With this tactic comes issues, like how do you identify top influencers in things like traveling, fashion or even cupcakes? It’s no easy task.
Computational algorithms and semantic analysis however have progressed to the point where technology can now allow us to locate influencers in any topic in the world. In this panel, you’ll hear from the experts dissecting online influence and the marketers employing such maneuvers to intelligently reach their audience on their own turf.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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The Art of Enchantment
by Guy Kawasaki
Worldwide introduction of Guy's new book. This presentation is for people who have a great product or service but not a lot of money. Learn how to enchant people using word-of-mouth marketing, Twitter, Facebook, and presentations so that they become your raging, inexhorable thunderlizard evangelists.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Guy Kawasaki
by Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki will be appearing at the SX Bookstore to meet fans and sign copies of his latest book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions.
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Real-Time Marketing Strategy: Surviving Daily Change
by Adam Lavelle
Many marketers have still been stuck with the contradiction of taking the time to set a strategy in place, while knowing that everything might be changing around them. We’re left with a simple question, but a huge challenge: can you develop a marketing strategy that prepares you for the chaos and unpredictability of the real-time net?
Specifically, we will answer five questions: 1. Does traditional strategic planning work in a ‘now’ marketing world? 2. If you take time to plan, but act in the moment, does it actually work? 3. Can you do agile marketing planning? 4. What are the specific things you need to not screw up your ‘live marketing’? 5. How do you comfort execs who fear that you’ll wing it and mess up?
We will describe the problem that strategists and design thinkers face in trying to rapidly develop marketing plans and strategies, in hopes that they are not instantly outdated upon completion. We’ll look at the problem of having strategies that don’t provide the needed direction to those people who are doing ‘live’ marketing. We’ll review a number of possible new methods for developing ‘real-time ready’ marketing plans. We’ll look at modern methods for gathering insights, and we’ll learn the required elements of a marketing playbook, and how to get them.
Finally, we’ll look at specific examples from around the net – of how brands and start-ups are applying these methods to make their brand come to life, and thrive in real-time environments.LEVEL: Advanced
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Fueling Fun: Customer Loyalty Through Location-Based Marketing
With the growing popularity of location-based services, many retailers are unsure how to implement location in a meaningful way. Some restaurants and bars have found success in specials for check-ins with discounts and free offers, but many retail stores are still struggling to figure out how location can play an integral role in their marketing and loyalty programs.
In this panel, you will hear success stories from Murphy USA Gas Stations on their use of location to increase customer engagement, loyalty, and online buzz. Which special offers work, and how can you implement them in ways that actually work at the register? How are location-based services like Whrrl adapting to provide great offers to users and value to retailers? And how can retailers profit off of "check-ins" at their locations through vendors and suppliers paying to market at their locations?
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Marketing Through The Back Door. APIs And You
by Vanessa Montes
Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter, Gowalla – when it comes to working with these Social Networking platforms, agencies and brands can often be made to feel as though they’re waiting in line at the hottest club in town with no guarantee of getting in, while the VIPs easily glide by the bouncer. For example, Foursquare reportedly gets upwards of 700 inbound e-mail requests per week – which can make you feel like your agency or brand is on the outside looking in. Well that’s no excuse for not doing something revolutionary.
This session will examine how APIs are revolutionizing the marketing and advertising landscapes, and unveil the “secret sauce” of how your brand or agency can bypass the bottleneck at the front door, avoid major spending commitments, and successfully leverage the power of these platforms in ways you’ve never dreamed of.
Panelists will share their insights across a spectrum of the most popular location-based and social media platforms, the challenges in working with them, and unveil the secrets of how to engage your customers by exploiting the open APIs of these platforms -- without ever working directly with them or even getting them on the phone.
LEVEL: Advanced
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Interactive Branding and the Built Environment
In architecture and design, form traditionally follows function, but we need to stop pretending that you can build a room without thinking about what you’re going to put inside it. The company website as a singular destination is being rendered obsolete by an avalanche of 5-star scale ratings. The 30-second spot is the proverbial dead horse of the branding/advertising world. How can we as designers and technologists embrace this blurring of the line between physical and virtual? Why can’t form and function evolve together, informing and mutating each other along the way?
How do consumers engage with your brand when the smart-phone goes in their pocket? How can we reinvigorate the digital age through actual physical interaction? What kind of team do you need to do it? Explore the power and promise of interactive branding in the built environment.
Hornall Anderson’s Chief Experience Officer Jamie Monberg will talk about successes and lessons learned integrating digital interactive into environmental experiences for clients like The Empire State Building, The Willis (formerly Sears) Tower, The Space Needle, and Microsoft.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Creating an Advertising Meme: Old Spice Deconstructed
by Dean McBeth and Justine Bateman
Old Spice used to be synonymous with old(er) people. But with a little help from “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” the brand has rejuvenated its image and become part of pop culture. This panel will not be a lame glorified case study, but rather a chance for attendees to better understand the top-secret, undocumented dynamics that helped to make this effort a success. Panelists may or may not include: 1) The creators of www.oldspicevoicemail.com, 2) Mike Relm, notorious pop culture mixologist, 3) A critic who truly thinks the Old Spice campaign is nonsense, 4) Somebody important from Digg, 5) A 15-year old kid who recently switched to Old Spice, 6) Creatives and strategists from Wieden+Kennedy, 7) A brand manager from P&G, and 8) A sexy man wearing only a towel (maybe). Also, FREE BODYWASH.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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It's Not Scalable and That's OK: One-Shot Campaigns
Crazy parties, bobble head swag, content audited by human beings: None of these things are scalable, but they can make a huge impact on the feelings and affinity people have towards a particular company.
This panel will discuss marketing strategies that helped some of the best companies build a true personality around their brands. These types of campaigns might not be scalable, but that's O.K. because we end up loving them.
LEVEL: Advanced
Monday 14th March 2011
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Everyone’s Wrong about Influence. Except your Customers
What is influence? For a decade, Malcom Gladwell's "The Tipping Point" has served as a touchstone for those who believe that influence resides in the hands of a select few. Not so, says a new generation of marketers. They believe that thanks to the democratizing power of the Internet, anyone can be an Influential.
Both camps are wrong. True influence flows from drawing together people with shared interests. This session focuses on the process of identifying areas of relevancy among your customers and prospects, building community, and allowing others to amplify your influence as you meet their needs.
LEVEL: Advanced
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Social Location Marketing
by Simon Salt
Social Location Marketing is the latest in a long line of Social Media "shiny new objects" but is it really relevant to marketers? Can they convert Checkin's to cash? Which platforms work best for which markets and how does all this sharing benefit the customer?
Attendees will leave knowing why they should be including this in their marketing mix, how to construct a scalable Social Location Marketing campaign and where all this is likely to go next. -
Gary Vaynerchuk
Best-selling author Gary Vaynerchuk will be appearing at the SX Bookstore to greet fans and sign copies of his latest work, The Thank You Economy.
Tuesday 15th March 2011
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Real-time Marketing in a Connected World
by Adam Lavelle, Angela LoSasso and Siobhan Quinn
Brands must learn to connect in real time — or get left behind in today's "on demand" environment. They must think like real-time publishers, where timely messages are attuned to consumers’ current needs. This session explores what it means to be a “marketer in the moment,” and how brands need to reinvent themselves to remain relevant.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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