The One Competitor Marketers Underestimated
December 5, 20185 min
Looking back at 2018, there’s one competitor we underestimated this year.
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Looking back at 2018, there’s one competitor we underestimated this year.
As brands juggle more and more channels to try and interact meaningfully with customers, is omnichannel achieving what it needs to?
Today Lego is one of the world’s top brands, but not too long ago the brand was in serious trouble.
Marketers can be surprisingly heavy-handed. The temptation, especially with big brands, is to thunder out answers that let customers know, in unequivocal terms, that they have been recognized.
We need to move on. That’s my take-away from a piece by Tara Walpert Levy. We need to move on from a mind-set based on reach and drop-off, and replace it with one centered on engagement and accumulation.