Method’s Marketing
I mentioned Tom Fishburne in a previous post, but I’ve just had the chance to properly read his Q&A over on Church of the Customer – it is well worth reading. Some very interesting insight into Method’s marketing.
Having a group of people who are your raving fans, evangelists, or whatever you want to call them works VERY well in our world right now. Any form of communication (good and bad) is amplified x1000 with the power of the web.
Oh pants
Looks like I might get wet next week 
Web 2.0 US Elections
This is a very slick site keeping you up to date on the US elections. It show live tweets and blog posts as they happen as well as the News mentions, and polls. Very impressive.
UPDATE : Just twittered about the site and it showed up straight away – see below: very cool.
Better and Better
So, The Do Lectures are coming closer (next week) and my list of essentials is pretty much ticked off. I felt VERY out of my depth purchasing a sleeping bag as requested by howies, but it seems like a good one and is very comfortable with some great features (funny that, techy features).
It gets better and better though – one of the blogs I read is Church of the Customer – all about customer evangelism, and the latest post featured Tom Fishburne, who draws some superb, marketing-orientated cartoons, and is also Senior Marketing Director Europe for Method Cleaning Products.
As some of you may know, I have a thing for cleaning 
and have used Method Products for many years, initially getting friends in the US to send them over, or bring them when they visited.(I even have them on the stuff we love page here).
Well, after looking at Tom’s blog today, he is going to be at The Do Lectures, so another great person to meet and chat with. All from a very hurriedly posted application post card – super smashing great
Talking of blogs, Dan Germain, who is Head of Creative at Innocent, has a great blog here, and Innocent’s own blog is looking good too. Subscribed to both. Dan attended The Little Big Voice Lectures by howies last year. On a brand note, Innocent have recently launched their own Orange Juice, which makes sense really. They put OJ in their smoothies, so why not sell it on their own to the hordes of raving fans? Nicely branded too.
Metrotwin
UGC (User Generated Content) is a big deal right now. Companies who do it right stand to make significant inroads in customer engagement and brand recognition.
BA are in the process of launching Metrotwin at the moment -it is looking to generate UGC for the 2 cities of NY and London which BA fly between. It is currently on private invite and the email you get back from them once registered says to look at the blog.
Which takes you back to the start page and no blog. Come on BA, get with it! At least you can follow Metrotwin on twitter here.
Baacode
Stand out. Do something different. Be remarkable. Make your customers smile
Icebreaker, one of my fave clothing brands, just did this with their new baacode system.
Your unique Baacode will let you see the living conditions of the high country sheep that produced the merino fibre in your Icebreaker garment, meet the farmers who are custodians of this astonishing landscape, and follow every step of the supply chain. We’re sure you’ll find the experience as inspiring as we do. Enjoy your journey back to the source.
What a great story – completely immersive, UNIQUE, fun, yet with a very serious message. All you do, is look for your baacode on your item of clothing, and tap it in on the site:
Now, we’ve got a few items of Icebreaker Merino clothes and it’s true, they are the best out there (along with howies merino stuff). Unfortunately, none have baacodes, but you can click for a demo, and you should – it tells a wonderful story about the people farming the sheep, the location and the history.
This is a perfect example of doing some original and well-executed marketing. If your reading this Icebreaker, a big well done. Made me smile
