I just wanted to share with you a short story today from my work experience at CHANEL on how you can scale on human impressions. CHANEL, the luxury brand invites people to join their unique workshops. People joining the workshops are either staff members or B2B clients. The brand connects with people by providing an exceptional experience that turns them immediately into brand ambassadors. And what’s beautiful about this is that you can just do the same today.
Delight your most valuable people because they will spread their unique experiences with other people. And this is scaling on human impressions. And CHANEL is a great example of how you can create meaningful experiences to delight people, build long-lasting relationships and scale on human impressions.
I hope this is useful to you.
But remember as long as the Matterhorn stands, everything is going to be alright.
Cheers people from Gland. It’s getting windy and a storm is supposed to come up. So be safe and talk to you soon again. Bye.
Greetings from a Swiss mountain guy;-)
Claude Oggier
More marketing questions? Call me at 0041-78-637-4314 and I am happy to help.
Marketing is complex today and in times where we are moving towards a subscription-driven, emotion-driven, ad-free, big brand loyalty-free world, it’s just getting harder and harder to build relationships with people. I bet you agree with me and today companies and the marketing firms need to learn the new rules to attract prospects, to convert creativity, content, and conversations into valuable customers.
A human-centered marketing approach addresses exactly this problem where you need to ask yourself;
How can you help somebody by doing something that is important to them?
Let me repeat it. How can you help somebody by doing something that is important to them?
The next step is to keep the conversation going by creating a helpful user experience that brings them closer to make a decision at each stage of their journey. This is creating human impressions instead of advertising impressions and imagine how much more efficient your marketing would be if we all applied a simple human-centered marketing approach.
I’m Claude Oggier and my goal is to serve and help companies to make better marketing decisions.
I hope you find this useful and please share this message has I think it’s important for any marketer to embrace a more human-centered approach in a marketing world today.
But remember, as long as the Matterhorn stands everything is going to be alright. Well, cheers people from the Swiss mountains. It’s just a beautiful, sunny winter day and I’m just very grateful.
Talk to you soon again. Bye.
Greetings from a Swiss mountain guy;-)
Claude Oggier
More marketing questions? Call me at 0041-78-637-4314 and I am happy to help.
I’m saying hello from beautiful Lausanne, the Olympic Capital which is home to 57 International Sports federations. I mean, being a big sports fan, this number is really impressive. Plus, Lausanne has been rated the world’s best small city by Monocles ‘Small Cities Index’.Wow, congrats Lausanne.
Loving marketing, I thought to share with you today my five-star hotel experience on the Seychelles Islands where we recently celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary.
It started with a warm welcoming cocktail with a spectacular view. Then when checking-in into our room, there was a lovely welcome message, champagne, fruits and decoration of two swans made out of towels laying over a bed of roses. In the evening, when we came back from our day trip the bath was filled up and covered with local flowers. One day we had a surprise breakfast at an amazing location and private service.
I mean, overall, you would say, well, that’s the kind of service that you would expect from a five-star hotel, right?
Yes, but I believe the reason why I felt treated like a king was obviously the wedding anniversary, but also the friendliness and the joy of life of the staff people. They were always saying hello with a warm smile and I just felt they really really cared about me having a fantastic and delightful holiday. Honestly, I really did. Thanks again to all the people there.
To me people, this is today’s marketing in a digital world where you need to create emotions, that delight the customers, the customer’s journey. Small details can have a massive impact on your customer experience. Care about your people and put the human element back at the center of everything you do.
Well, I hope this was useful and I would like to know what are you or your brand doing today to delight your customers?
I would really love to hear from you. Leave a message, don’t be shy in the comment section.
But remember, as long as the Matterhorn stands, everything is going to be alright.
Cheers people from Lausanne. A beautiful city and I talk to you soon again from another great location. Cheers. Bye.
Greetings from a Swiss mountain guy;-)
Claude Oggier
More marketing questions? Call me at 0041-78-637-4314 and I am happy to help.
I hope you’re doing well and I’m saying hi from a viewpoint I visit frequently during summer when I go cycling. I mean, look in the back. It’s a spectacular view today over lac léman (Lake of Geneva) and the Alps where it’s foggy today. And it’s just great to be above the fog and I feel very grateful.
Now people my question for you today is do you have the feeling that your marketing campaigns are less effective than they used to?
Do you have the feeling that your marketing is falling behind?
Well, I believe a problem today is the abusive use of technology where too many marketing messages have forgotten the human connection or human element. Everything seems to be programmed and automated by marketers, who seem to have forgotten about what makes actually good sense. It’s simply annoying, it provides mediocre results and simply we must do a better job if we want to keep people’s trust in our products or services.
And here is my take on what we should do.
Marketing to digital natives has to be consensual. I’m feeling concerned and I believe you too. Therefore marketing, in general, has to be consensual.
Somebody at the top of the organization needs to declare that building trust in a more human way is a top priority.
Make the success of your customers be your most important KPI.
Embrace technology and make the consumer path to your product or service fast and easy. By all means, use artificial intelligence to accelerate and automate repetitive processes.
Provide customer service value by informing consumers on their order status or to students about their program progress.
Create ongoing conversations with your biggest fans and stay relevant in the consumer’s eyes when they decide to make a purchase.
Last but not least, brand building and building trust with consumers has never been more important than today. People want to be respected, don’t abuse people’s trust with technology.
Well, I hope you enjoyed these insights and I would really love to hear from you about your marketing challenges.
But regardless, remember, as long as the Matterhorn stands, everything is going to be alright.
Well, cheers people from this great, spectacular viewpoint.
Talk to you soon again. Bye bye.
Greetings from a Swiss mountain guy;-)
Claude Oggier
More marketing questions? Call me at 0041-78-637-4314 and I am happy to help.
Welcome to Paradise. Seychelles Islands are not only a unique place for honeymooners, but it’s also a unique place for its rocks. Seychelles are unique in being the only mid-oceanic islands made of granite. Most islands this far from mainland are volcanic, coral and sand. Just take a look in the back how beautiful the rocks are. And there is even one right here in the middle of the ocean, massive granite.
Now loving marketing, today I would like to discuss with you a case study from Adidas. Fabio Tambosi’s team at Adidas take marketing to the next level because they listened to the consumers when they said, “don’t give me more heroes. Make me one”.
This is really putting the consumers at the center of their thinking.
This is what marketing is today. The way to go forward for you and me by putting humans back into the center of everything that we are doing.
Go and check out Adidas most recent campaigns on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/adidas/, get inspired and share your thoughts with me to open the discussion.
If you have marketing challenges you would like to discuss, reach out to me and I’m more than happy to assist. (My phone number: 0041-78-637-4314)
Now, remember, as long as the matter understands everything is going to be alright.
Have a good day. Greetings from the Seychelles islands and talk to you soon again for a very special place.
Greetings from a Swiss mountain guy;-)
Claude Oggier
Disclosure: By now I guess you know that I am a big fan of Mark Schaefers marketing vision and I found out about this amazing case study while reading the book “Marketing Rebellion” by Mark Schaefer. I adjusted the original story to make it resonate in a very simple way.
Welcome from paradise where I’m currently celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary. The Seychelles islands are a very special place and if you want to delight or surprise your partner one day, I mean this is the destination that you cannot go wrong. Just take a look at how beautiful the beach is in the back. You see some waves coming in, beautiful weather. It’s not too warm today, beautiful conditions to enjoy a lovely holiday.
But now, let’s come back to my favorite subject again, which is marketing and I’m afraid to tell you that marketers, you are asleep. McKinsey’s research indicated already back in 2009 that consumer behaviors are changing the way they to do research and buy products today. Mark Schaefer’s new book called “Marketing Rebellion“, which came out at the beginning of 2019 highlights that consumers are the new marketing department. They are in control of a staggering 2/3 (two-thirds) of your marketing. Only 1/3 (one-third) is controlled by the marketing department.
I mean, please, this must be a wake-up call for you and me and all of us. Here is what I would suggest doing.
We have to create consumer conversations, drip by drip, keeping your product or service in the mind of the consumers when they consider a purchase. Time over time. Period.
But remember, as long as the Matterhorn stands, everything will be alright.
Alright people, it was great talking to you. Have a good day and I continue enjoying my beautiful holiday at the Seychelles islands and I talk to you soon again from another special place. Talk to you soon. Bye bye.
This is the view from the place (La Dullive, Gland in Switzerland) where I often go swimming during the summer. Now we are in mid-October, water temperatures are about 15 degrees, and I still want to go swimming;-)
But before I go swimming, let me just share with you my thoughts on today’s connected consumers.
A few days ago, I attended an interesting conference where discussions were around risks and opportunities in a data-driven world. At some point, the audience had to debate about privacy versus personalization. And to my surprise, the majority of the people, want actually more privacy. But as a marketer, that’s a clear signal that today’s consumers, especially the connected consumers, do not trust your brand. What can you do?
I think we need to take this opportunity and start building again trust through human interactions, human connections and putting the human element back into the center of everything we do in marketing. I know it’s a lot of effort and a lot of time. But to me, that’s the only way if you want to build a trusted and long-lasting brand.
If you would like to discuss your marketing challenges, please feel free to reach out to me and I’m happy to help.
But remember, as long as the Matterhorn stands, everything will be alright.
Marketing can be overwhelming. It can be overwhelming to constantly try to optimize your marketing channels.
But what about if I tell you that today we have this great opportunity to connect again with our biggest fans, connecting with the people that we care, showing that your brand is human that there are humans behind it?
I think we need to go back to remind us that people they buy from humans. We have this really great opportunity to put the people at the center of everything we do in marketing.
But remember, as long as the Matterhorn stands, everything will be alright!
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