Don’t you think like all great marketing, there should be a strategy that can then be executed with campaignable ideas?
I.e.
Step 1: create a social media strategy that dictates the long-term engagement & relationship building.
Step 2: Implement campaign executions in line with that strategy that enliven and develop further the community.
In my view, Step 1 is an activity run by the client, with the advice or strategic direction of an agency/consultancy who have a close working knowledge of the client’s brand.
Step 2, where based on the guidelines and strategic direction, client’s can brief agencies to create campaigns that integrate into the communities.
The problem is there always ends up being a struggle for the division of power and long-term control.
]]>If you are an in-house marketing exec. and you pitch hiring a firm for community engagement, then you are not going to be able to easily show a product to management.
]]>Are they trying to push a new model of the Yaris or generate awareness of the car? Because I’ve been following three of the campaigns (Population – best state, One Green Bean – WerewolfinYaris, and the video one) and I still don’t know what it is about.
Also, I think everyone just uses the campaign based approach because it is the easiest to implement and has ROI, and they are used to it from traditional advertising. Short burst, or pulse marketing.
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