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Experienced Marketers
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This is a workshop about the death
of ideas… and how to avoid it.
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KPIs for this workshop
• % Confidence gained to pursue new ideas
• # of future ideas saved
• # of conversations between former strangers
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Hi, I’m Christian.
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Hi, I’m Nick.
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Ideas feel great. They aren’t easy,
but they’re immediate.
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Like anything immediate, however,
the feeling is challenged and the
passion fades.
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Today we’ll work together to build
our defenses against inevitable
challenges, and keep the passion
alive.
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Agenda
Meet your team
Introduce the checklist
Solve the problem
Present & defend
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Rule 1: Trust Your Team
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Have you thought about…?
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…the business?
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How does this align with our goals
& marketing strategy?
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Is this on brand?
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Is the audience in alignment with
our target?
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Are we leveraging a real insight?
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How will we measure the return?
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How can we test it to mitigate risk?
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…how people will find out about it?
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Where in your target’s life will this
idea resonate?
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Is there an event / media outlet /
etc. that offers an intersection with
that point of resonance?
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Is it available? Is it remotely
affordable?
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Can we produce enough intrigue to
get people to look?
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How long will paid support be
required? Can it live afterward?
Should it?
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How will you test and optimize as
the idea progresses?
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…how it will work?
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Does your concept work in the
place it will actually encounter
humans? (In mobile, rich media,
etc.)
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Have you made functional, timing,
or cost decisions without involving
a tech person?
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Have you fallen in love with a
concept your tech lead hasn’t seen
(or doesn’t like) ?
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Are you going to build this in
house? If so does your team have
the required skill set?
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Will you have to work with a
corporate IT department? Do they
have the capacity?
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…how the internet will use / talk
about / ruin your idea?
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Social
Media
Behaviors
Sharing
Messaging
Posting
Following
Trolling
Reviewing
Checking-
In
Tagging
What social behaviors are most
likely to align with your idea?
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What social platforms are right for
your idea (not the other way
around)?
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What are your (trackable) social
objectives? The fewer the better…
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What’s happening in the world
today that might impact perceptions
of your idea?
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Do you have budget to amplify
social impact?
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What will you do with user
generated content? What if no one
generates any?
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Who will manage it? For how long?
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That’s a big list, and sometimes you
need to come up with answers
quickly.
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…like in the next 30 minutes.
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Suggested work plan
Minutes 1-10:
Come up with an acceptable idea
Minutes 11-25:
Spend a few minutes developing one or two points for each of the four main
areas
Minutes 26-30:
Tell jokes, make friends, and fight over who will present
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Suggested presentation plan
Minute 0-1:
Explain your great idea
Minutes 1-4.9:
Explain why it’s good for the business, where people will find it, how it will work,
and what people will say about it. Easy right?
Minutes 4.9-5:
Bow and accept our collective awe at a flawless presentation
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Solve the problem!
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TIME’S UP! Let’s Share
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Thanks
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Don’t forget to take the survey on
your app or on the site!
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Editor's Notes

  • #21 While Sea-Doo typically advertised in boating and outdoors content, he was more tuned into lifestyle, sports and entertainment.
  • #22 We discovered he was highly receptive to out of home media (56%) and social media (88%), and also primarily relied on word of mouth and third-party endorsements to make purchase decisions.6 Sea-Doo tended to tiptoe around all of these spaces.
  • #24 Knowing the target is active in social media, enlisted a group of social influencers to start telling the story that the Spark is a dream worth realizing. To make content accessible across all social media channels and maximize our reach, we selected influencers across various social platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Vine, as well as bloggers. Our final list included YouTube filmmaker Devin Super Tramp, Red Bull KTM Athlete Aaron Colton, Vine star BatDad and bloggers The Gear Junkie, Mocha Dad and Single Dad Laughing. Additionally, because we knew our target was heavily active on Instagram, we also worked with two of the most prominent Instagram photographers—Dirk Dallas and Jay Zombie
  • #34 Don’t think about a platform yet, think about what you want them to do first.
  • #35 Knowing the target is active in social media, enlisted a group of social influencers to start telling the story that the Spark is a dream worth realizing. We hand selected nine influencers who depicted the colorful, playful and youthful attributes we wanted to portray with the Spark and had audiences comprised of our target. To make content accessible across all social media channels and maximize our reach, we selected influencers across various social platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Vine, as well as bloggers. Our final list included YouTube filmmaker Devin Super Tramp, Red Bull KTM Athlete Aaron Colton, Vine star BatDad and bloggers The Gear Junkie, Mocha Dad and Single Dad Laughing. Additionally, because we knew our target was heavily active on Instagram, we also worked with two of the most prominent Instagram photographers—Dirk Dallas and Jay Zombie. To launch the Spark in style, Sea-Doo threw a huge party called Spark Some Fun Miami with deadmau5 and held it the world-famous Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Miami is a vibrant city, pulsating with a water-centric lifestyle that provided us with the perfect stage to make a spectacle.   In the weeks leading up to the event, we created buzz on the streets of Miami. We partnered with popular street artists who created Spark-inspired murals. We hired pro riders to wear custom deadmau5 heads while riding Sea-Doo Sparks through Miami’s waterways. We also built a massive sandcastle shaped as the deadmau5 head and plotted it around busy beaches in Miami. We wrapped Fiat 500s with Sparks in tow, and guerilla street teams roamed the city, giving out concert posters, T-shirts and product information while conveying the simplicity of owning the Sea-Doo Spark.