Today I want to share something a little bit out of the ordinary for me. See, I just got back from beautiful Boston where I attended the most awesome conference ever, #Inbound15, hosted by HubSpot. It was in one word MINDBLOWING! It is a conference about inbound marketing (aka content marketing) and has a host of fabulous speakers on all kinds of things marketing related, as well as some inspiring and motivational keynotes. Anyway, I want to share something with you from Inbound: So, marketing related blog posts are not out of the ordinary for me, but this one isn't strictly speaking … [Read more...]
Happy New Year!
Happy Holidays!
I’d like to teach the world to… do marketing ;)
We are getting to that time of year when I need to see one of my favourite adverts of all time. You remember it. That Coca-Cola ad with all the people on the hilltop singing about how they'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony :) I love that ad. To me, once I see that ad, then the holidays are coming. I'm a singer (bet you didn't know that - who knows, I might give you a little sample sometime lol ;) ... but I'm not attempting to teach the world to sing - there are plenty of good people out there doing that ;) I do want to teach the world about marketing though. … [Read more...]
What Businesses Can Learn From My Son’s Kindergarten
We have been very lucky in that both our children have attended a local kindergarten which we have all been very very happy with.This particular kindergarten has been widely discussed in Iceland, as it has a strong philosophy. Not that I am going to discuss that here in any detail, but a few of the things they do are things that businesses can learn a lot from when it comes to customer experience. One of the criticism it has is that it is very organised. Everything is marked. The children sit in specific marked places on the floor in the main room during various activities and they have … [Read more...]