Two things even social media can't cure

WHY ITS A GOOD TIME TO GET BACK TO BASICS

Today you have more options for marketing your brand than ever. Tomorrow you'll have even more. And that’s the problem. To read Ad Age or Campaign one would think that everything in our industry — from media to research to consumers to the agency model — is in a radical state of flux. It probably is. But in a world where so many aspects of our business are changing right out from under us, I think many marketing practitioners have lost sight of the two things that have not changed at all: the core functions of uncovering insights and telling compelling stories around them. Without these two things all the Twitter followers, Facebook friends and widget downloads will not help your brand.

If you are on the client-side you should demand these skills of any company or social media guru who tries to sell you on their ability to help your marketing program. If you are on the agency-side you should make sure that in your efforts to keep up with all this change you do not neglect them.

To help our TAAN agencies in this regard we have build our global meeting in Copenhagen around this theme with the title “Back to Basics”. For those on the client-side and others I will include some “Back to Basics” posts in the months to come where I will explore the often-overlooked basics of good marketing and how they apply to today’s rapidly evolving marketing environment.