Employer Branding – how Virgin added ‘Virginess’ to Virgin Active
I love employer branding and when done well it can revolutionise Government Departments, large and even small businesses. Always on the look out for businesses doing this well, I was excited to find this fantastic presentation by Elaine J0bson, where she shares the principles on how Virgin successfully took the old Health and Raquet club brand and [...]
Advertising People Vs Normal People
Ever wondered if we ad folk live in a bubble? This infographic explains it all. haha
Using LinkedIn for Recruiting
If used to its full potential, LinkedIn can be a powerful tool in your recruiting process. If you’re not already using LinkedIn for your company, why not? Setting up a company page on LinkedIn allows another avenue for you to represent your company culture and employee brand. Once that presence is set up and running, [...]
Employment branding at its best
For those slightly unsure, employment branding is a key part of the equation for long term recruiting and talent management. It’s important that when dealing with any element of your brand that there is a clear and defined strategy to what your brand is and how you communicate this not only to customers, but also to [...]
Cut
Recent findings from a number of large scale studies of consumers and their habits suggest that less choice equals more sales. Interestingly, secondary conclusions for this hypothesis suggest that less choice converted to quicker decision processing and therefore greater sale conversion. Could these findings be due to the time poor nature of consumer habits or [...]
Writing on the iPad
So we want to eliminate needing to take a notepad and pen with us everywhere to write and sketch our brain farts, when we have our trusty iPad at hand. There are various apps available from iTunes which have note-taking and sketching functionality as well as pens that sync to an iPad. Apps for download: [...]
How to create a successful LinkedIN Profile
I have been asked quite a bit lately about how a business professional should create a successful LinkedIN profile so I thought I should let everyone know my top 5 tips on creating a successful LinkedIN Profile. TIP 1 – A Compelling Personal Headline and Photo. Firstly, your personal headline is the first thing that people [...]
Trust Me and I’ll Trust You
I was first introduced to Amanda Mooney through her blog, We Are the Digital Kids. In the time that I have followed her, Amanda has gone from working with Edelman Chicago (including co-founding Edelman’s global millennial agency 8095) to now working in Shanghai, China managing Eldeman’s digital team. Her insight, understanding and natural submersion in [...]
The Future according to Mike Walsh
Mike Walsh, author of ‘Futuretainment’, presented at a recent AIMIA Brisbane event: “Yesterday the world changed. Now it is your turn” which I attended. For the one-hour session I felt Mike covered a lot of ground, but not once did I feel “overwhelmed” by the information being given to us. Working in an industry focused [...]
Key lessons from Designing for Emotion
I recently read Aarron Walter’s book Designing for Emotion. Walter is the lead user experience designer for MailChimp where he is the chief responsible for making the online e-mail campaign program’s interfaces more human. As someone fascinated by the psychology of the things we do, I rushed through this book at an eager pace. My [...]