Image by gleonhard via Flickr
The 3-minute daily AdAge video shows always provide some interesting morsels. In this short excerpt, below, Jason Kilar (Hulu's CEO) says: "We don't have a marketing department because if our product isn't going to sell itself on its own merits we've got bigger problems". This is very much how I look at the role of Marketing, going forward, as well. My 4 cents on this topic:
- Design the marketing right into your product or service, from the get-go - if people will not want to share what you are offering, that's where you need to start!
- Instead of paying to grab people's attention (which usually means disrupting them, several times), invest in your product to be so attractive, or better yet, addictive, that your users will promote it for you. Word of MOUTH and word of MOUSE is what will drive your success more than anything else, so that's where every cent is well spend
- Once a good many people are using your product or service, enable and encourage them to share all that goodness with their friends and peers (great examples for that include Nike+ and the recent T-Mobile Life's for Sharing campaign); put 'share this' and 'tell your friends' links and widgets everywhere, and integrate things like Facebook Connect, Google Connect and Twitter.
- The best way to activate your users as voluntary brand-messengers is to allow them to co-create, to engage, to get involved - and of course, to talk to them, to build relationships. This is the key to Twitter's rapid growth.
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=69b7d0a5-8502-43e9-a7b6-2a644ed8413f)
Interesting!
It totally depends on how good you plan your marketing strategies.
Posted by: Edward | June 09, 2009 at 07:56 PM