Linas Šimonis about Marketing Strategy for CEO

Consultant of Marketing Strategy

  • A Business Blog Should Always Look Like a Business Blog?

    Strategy is what defines a winner in the long term. All these web 2.0 techniques are only tactics. The new and important tactics therefore, but it can vary from business to business. When I say "every business should have a business blog" I do not mean that every business should have an internet site with blog software installed and posts appearing there. What I mean is the mentality of openness, strategy, leadership, stream of useful information. Personally delivered message of the strategy. The new web 2.0 technologies opened a very new way to reach buyers or prospects and it is foolish not to use this channel. But this can be achieved in different ways than a formal business blog. Yes, your business blog can look not exactly like a blog Sometimes conversation with customers can be a little bit different from "real" business blog. Nice example is Red Oxx, a… Read more >>

  • Is Howard Schultz Hired by Starbucks Competitors to Destroy the Starbucks?

    "We secretly have done blind taste tests in Starbucks stores and discovered that Starbucks expensive coffee tastes not better than instant coffee." I can imagine this experiment and campaign from Starbucks competitors. But it was Howard Schultz who sets-up a blind taste tests in Starbucks stores to prove that expensive Starbucks's coffee is not better than instant coffee. This is the dream of every Starbucks competitor. Instant coffee is the antithesis to Starbucks’s strategy The strategy of Starbucks is to be expensive Italian style coffeehouse. This is a wonderful strategy and it brings to Starbucks its fame. The essence of this strategy is to resist all cheap things in coffee. In customers mind, an instant coffee is cheap coffee. Customers think that it is lower quality than espresso and tastes not so good than "real" coffee. So, if Starbucks confesses that their coffee tastes the same or worse than instant… Read more >>

  • Social Media Professionals Are Needed!

    Recently David Meerman Scott wrote about the problem me and many managers and marketers are facing. In blog post entitled When marketing in the Netherlands you need to get Heeves, he pointed to a problem that in different countries there are different leaders in social media platforms. If you want to be successful in such country, you should know local habits very well. Social media professionals are needed! In my consulting practice I work with high-level managers, usually CEOs, on marketing strategy issues in web 2.0 age. Because I am from a small country I understand that if you want to reach broad audience in any non-US area, you should know local habits, preferences. And of course, local language. Yes, the local language, because not everyone in the world speaks English. Who can help understand local issues? Who can help represent companies in those countries? Obvious answer – local social… Read more >>

A New E-book “The New Rules of Business Blogs” Is Now Released!

Web is changing rapidly. Rules that were appreciated two years ago, today may be obsolete. But do we always recognize these changes? For example blogs diverged in few categories – usual blogs, problogs, celebrity blogs, corporate blogs, business blogs. But we still apply the same rules to all of them. What a mistake! Take for […]

Why a CEO Must Blog

A very straightforward question. Why a CEO must blog? There are two reasons that made the CEO blogging mandatory from the marketing point of view. First, a CEO is the best spokesperson of every company OK, the founder is the best spokesperson of every company, but if the one is not with the company anymore, […]

David Packard Must Receive The Nobel Prize

Marketing is too important to be left to marketing people For only this one quote David Packard must receive the Nobel Prize in Economics, or, at least, forever must be in Management Hall of Fame. Forever. Period. Too often General Managers are too busy with shareholders, unions, various meetings, production issues. Too little time General […]

Don Norman Missed the Essence of Buying

Don Norman, the famous author of Emotional Design: Why we love (or hate) everyday things, The Design of Everyday Things and few others recently wrote a column for CACM called Simplicity Is Highly Overrated. The main point of his article is that customers are buying complex LG or Samsung refrigerators or washing machines instead of […]

David Meerman Scott did it Again!

I just received a copy of the new David’s book The New Rules of Marketing and PR, an was stunned. He did it again! After writing one of the most successful e-books in history The new rules of PR he expanded it to a fine hardcover. Why every General Manager should read this one? Simple […]

Linas Šimonis about Marketing Strategy for CEO