What do you do, Jesse Kliza?
Chris Brogan posted a question this morning, looking for feedback regarding what people felt new marketers and new media marketing agencies should be doing. As always, Chris’ post and the related comments are well worth the time to read in their entirety.
So what do you do Jesse?
I’ve thought about what I do, and I think it can be boiled down to this:
I help organizations explode the traps of traditional thinking about business, and realize the value of every individual.
Every individual that has any form of relationship with your organization (employee, customer, partner, prospect, etc) has value beyond what’s on the surface. Anyone can be an evangelist for your organization, anyone can bring you the “next big thing”, anyone can help you fix a business problem. It’s your job to let them, engage them and nurture them.
What is “new marketing” specifically?
As someone who’s been in marketing for almost 5 years now, having had no formal training, my thinking about business and marketing is almost exclusively shaped by my experience and personal character. I love people, and am a firm believer in the value of every individual. From a marketing perspective, this means I believe that organizations need to be as closely connected and engaged with their customers and market as possible. Marketing is a conversation. It’s not just about what YOU do as a company. It’s about what the INDIVIDUALS IN YOUR MARKET tell you you’ve done/do, what they tell OTHERS you’ve done/do, what they tell you they need and how YOU respond.
What about all the cool new tools?
New marketing isn’t just about the new tools, the new mediums, the messaging… it’s about changing an organization’s mindset and approach to how they operate and interact with their market.
Enough about what I think, what do you think?
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You know Jesse, that’s the great thing about Social Media…it gives organizations the opportunity to control the message that their brand is conveying…it allows them the interact and engage with their market (and those that do it right are going to enhance the quality of their offering).
Hey Ricardo,
Good points. I agree, those that really do it right absolutely enhance the quality of their offering.