Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.
Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising.
More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.
The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.
If a brand wants to build social communities, capital and influence, it must become the chief celebrant of its community, not its celebrity. This simple shift in approach unlocks enormous transformative potential for brands.
Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred.