08 · 31

N'écouter pas tout ce que disent vos clients. Trop d'études se contentent du plus petit commun dénominateur.

Umair Haque, dans sa chronique d'Harvard revenait sur ce qu'il faut retenir de Steve Jobs. Umair est un partisan de la réinvention du capitalisme. Il cite Apple comme un exemple d'entreprise qui a échappé à la faillite, plafonne au top du hit parade des boîtes côtées en bourse et qui n'a aucune dette, aucune. Qu'on aime ou pas le système fermé de Apple, qu'on le prenne ou pas pour un dictateur du web, il a créé une boîte pour durer qui continuera à nous surprendre. 
Mais il y a un point qu'il cite qui me semble le plus important: l'attention qu'il portait aux clients."It's the received wisdom that Steve never listened to his customers — and he'd often make a point of saying so. But how many other CEOs do you know that were listening so intently that they responded to the average fanboy's (or troll's) emails? Steve's goal in paying obsessive attention to all things Apple wasn't merely to "listen" but to discern people's wildest expectations, and then firmly take a quantum leap past them, instead of merely discovering the lowest-common-denominator of what people wanted most today, and then pandering to it. Leapfrogging your customers means creating new markets, not just new products. And Apple'screated (or rejuvenated) market after market by applying the logic above."
Écouter ses fans, sentir les attentes les plus folles et les frustrations les plus grandes dans la catégorie voilà une caractéristique qui distingue clairement Apple.
Trop d'études de marché se contentent d'écouter le belge moyen, l'échantillon représentatif voir le prospect et oublient ces clients passionnés. Nois offrons aux entreprises la posibilité de créer des panels permanents dans lequel les fans peuvent être réunis dans une sorte de VIP room virtuelle où ils ont le sentiment de participer au succès des marques qu'ils aiment. Et quand on sait qu'un produit fmcg fait en moyenne 80% de son chiffre avec 2,5% de ses clients...la nécessité de les écouter mieux et avant les autres me semble évidente si on veut durer et innover.


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08 · 30

Apple's Secret Weapon

David Aaker wrote this article long before Steve Jobs resigned. it's worthwile reading because it puts some perspective on why they are/were so succesful and reminds us that a company is an ecosystem.http://bit.ly/pxvGLK
08 · 25

Ce que le déclin des contributions sur Facebook nous dit de l’avenir de l’info.

Intéressante analysedes résultats de l'étude Globalweb index.

Ce que le déclin des contributions sur Facebook nous dit de l’avenir de l’info
LA SOCIAL NEWSROOM | 24 AOÛT 2011
http://pulse.me/s/1kvOX


Vous avez peut-être manqué la publication au mois d’août de l’étude GlobalWebIndex : un passionnant ensemble de ... Read more

08 · 11

The future of business is not created it's co-created.

The Rise of the Connected Customer and the New Era of Relevance
BRIAN SOLIS | 9 AOÛT 2011
http://pulse.me/s/15FvB


It’s not a widely kept secret, but customers do indeed keep companies in business. While businesses have long invested in ... Read more

08 · 09

Failure breeds success in social media and marketing.


Praising failures and sharing what they teached you is an important element of today's corporate culture where almost everything becomes a question of experience. Marketing is experience, not a science, Social media is experience, not a science. Every manager somewhere hopes it's all scientific but it isn't. So, let's cope with it and inaugurate the wall of failures because it's failure that breeds success today.
The Simple Way to Avoid Social Media Failures
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/the_simple_way_to_avoid_social.html

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08 · 07

Listen to your stakeholders' frustrations as well as their attraction or anxiety for the new?

Here is an other interesting article based on Professor Christensen's findings about demand on markets. What leads people to buy things is a function of the balance of forces of progress on one side (attraction of the new, frustration of the present) and the conservative forces on the other side. Conservative forces are composed of allegiance to the past and anxiety for the new. This is also something researchers often forget while loking at wants and needs. Frustrations and anxieties learn you probably more about key opportuinities in a market. And that is also what we learn while listening to people behind the pseudo of their choice in our private and permanent communities dedicated to research. Anxieties and frustrations are far more essential than desire or so called needs.
Heres is an example about social media illutrated with the case between Twitter and Google+

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08 · 07

Learn not competing by listening and caring better.

This again might seem absolutely crazy but read the article below.
It's again in line with what I did write in my book. Competition teaches you to live in function of your competitor's agenda. Instead of yours. It keeps you away from satisfying all your stakeholders by creating amongst them something broader and more attractive : a community of purpose. Communities of purpose federate stakeholders and put a company in what I did call " surpetition" rather than competition. You're no longer competing against something, your competing for something. You're no longer in the corporate world, you enter the "forporate" world. Think about Nike. They don't sell shoes they sell individual performance and try to sell it without stealing value, just creating it for each individual customer.  Think about Ikea, where the founder did fight in order to create value for and with all its stakeholders.
Learn to grow value and win loyal customers by escaping competition. It all starts with listening and engaging with all your stakeholders along your value chain.
Learning Not to Compete
http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2011/08/learning-not-to-compete.html

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08 · 04

The end of the destination web

Report: The Rise of the Social Advertising
BRIAN SOLIS | 1 AOÛT 2011
http://pulse.me/s/XcFd


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08 · 01

Google Actualités : Les leçons de la pub l'Oréal de Julia Roberts qui est interdite

Google Actualités

 

J'aime beaucoup Julia Roberts et je ne dois pas être le seul. Mais valait-elle le sort que L'Oréal lui a réservé. L'Oréal a construit son empire, son image et son succès avec des recettes éprouvées mais le monde change plus vite qu'il ne s'en rende compte. Les grosses structures s'adaptent toujours moins vite mais là , il est temps de se rendre compte que le public attend plus de transparence, plus d'authenticité. C'est dificile évidemment pour une entreprise qui a dans ses gênes l'idée de vendre du rêve. Et loin de moi l'idée de se dire que les gens ne rêvent plus, bien au contraire. Mais ils veulent un autre discours marketing. Ils décodent tous les signes , toutes les manipulations, toutes les exagérations. Peut-on faire rêver sans exagérer, sans sublimer. Je le pense. Nous avons des consommateurs en permanence dans nos panels qui nous parlent de marques comme l'Oréal. Ils attendent du rêve. Mais ils veulent se sentir mérités par l'entreprise qui le les leur fournit. Non?

 

patrick willemarck pwillemarck@gmail.com

 


 

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Publicités interdites en Grande-Bretagne car elles ne sont pas représentatives des résultats que les produits sont en mesure de fournir. Rien que cette phrase met la puce à l'oreille. Mais que se passe-t-il autour de Julia Roberts ? ...
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Patrick Willemarck

Did spend and enjoy 25 year in the ad business as CEO of Y&R, Lowe, Bozell Europe, Grey. Took a sabbatical in 2005 , wrote awarded management book on innovation (Het Edisonteam & Innnover pour durer) and started Dialog Solutions a company delivering External End to End Engagement solutions. Solutions that help companies connect with open or private communities enriching every part of their value chain from R@D to Client Satisfaction Support. Dialog or death is my next book. It intends to show how social media can help companies avoiding fossilisation which happens now as most companies (More than 90%) are underperforming their markets. Social media can help restructuring and better meeting the reel wants and needs of the markets and boost the results of R&D, sales, Marketing, Advertising, Direct Marketing and client satisfaction.

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