Hear Rebecca Kovalcik, Creative Director of Happy Brands at Danone share her insights on how to have an authentic voice as a female leader on the latest episode of Carving Stairs by NYF and Zerotrillion. Watch it now!
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Spotlight on Rebecca Kovalcik, Senior Creative Director for Happy Brands at Danone. Rebecca reflects on the pressures of curating the 'perfect' persona in our social media age. As our careers begin to mirror these flawless online images, she reminds us of the importance of authenticity and the joy of simply being content with oneself. Watch the full episode of Carving Stairs into Stone here: https://lnkd.in/eUv7V9H9
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This is what culture should look like! I've worked for and led many sales teams, some of which were built on toxic culture. In sales, it’s challenging to balance individual targets and aspirations with teamwork and collective growth.
At The Reward Collection, we've nailed this balance. Our culture is all about supporting one another and genuinely wanting every team member to succeed. As you can see from Nikhil’s screenshot, we get super hyped about great brands coming on board. I’m incredibly proud of our team, not just for their performance, but for their support for each other and their constant sharing of ideas to improve.
As CEO, I believe it’s crucial to see employees not as working FOR me, but WITH me, building our vision together!
When Dad's microwave packed up, before he died aged 90, my unsuccessful attempt to buy a new one, engaged us in an unlikely marketing conversation. He was far happier to join his friends across the road at the village community centre, where a three course meal & a cup of tea was under six quid.
Although it wasn't the cost, he just didn't have to prepare & cook. Dad had previously enjoyed the well marketed Wiltshire Farm microwave ready meals, but the banter, friendship & delightful staff, won every time, No marketing was required & the centre was full every day.
I tried Amazon & a walk around Currys, & he eventually said; there's far too much choice, its too difficult, I can’t be bothered.
Dad said that in his day, if you wanted to cook fast, everyone had the Prestige Pressure Cooker. For vacuum cleaning, it was a Hoover. A Gin & Tonic in the pub would be a Gordon's London.
Of course he was right, there was only one important factor: Quality. The belief was that if the product was of good quality and available at a reasonable price, people would buy it. This eventually created monopolies & exploitation of customers. Then more companies entered the ring, with more competition, cheaper prices & reduced quality. Next came the World Wide Web, which changed everything.
Over the past three decades, Internet marketing has descended to an unacceptable level of cunning & deception. It started with Alibaba, where you would search for the best price for your chosen named product. The long list of optional links, take you off into the seller's site, into the abyss of cheap deals, with no relationship to the original search. Months later an empty box would turn up, you'd only purchased a box, that's why the deal was too good to be true, after hours of senseless searching. eBay & Amazon use these tactics now, selling products for £1, with £25 delivery costs. Dad was in fact correct. To much choice & maybe he saw the deception.
I agree with your post Hayley-Jane; simplicity, consistency, creativity & humour are indeed unbeatable. Integrated with the correct use of Big Data, transparency, personalisation, relevancy & agility will make the future battle for attention more exciting.
Senior Brand Manager at Diageo GB | Former Marketing Director at Seedlip
Thank you Hue & Cry for having me on the panel at your ‘Winning the battle for attention’ event yesterday. Particularly to Astrid Simpson for being a fab host.
The age old debacle of how to cut through the noise and engage consumers never stops and it was a joy to explore this everchanging challenge together.
Could have listened to Nisa Bayindir and her incredible behavioural insights all day! And honoured to sit alongside Helen Cutmore and Rosie McCarthy.
My four biggest take outs…
💫 simplicity, consistency, creativity and humour - the perfect blend of these four elements is (almost!!) unbeatable
💫 EVERYTHING must start with a consumer insight
💫 you don’t have to do something completely brand new to ‘win’ the attention battle, but you do have to do your ‘thing’ better than anybody else
💫 timing is paramount - we can often underestimate or forget this fundamental of a campaign/partnership/activity
This is refreshing to see a company that has a healthy culture. If you think the culture of your company shouldn’t be your number one priority, you may need to take a look in the mirror and ask yourself why are you in business? If your answer is, it’s just for the money and there’s nothing in it for your employees. Then you’re stifling your business potential. A business with happy and has motivated employees will go 10 times further than any other company where the employees are unhappy, and unappreciated. Building a business without a healthy culture is like building a house on a foundation of sand. It may not collapse today, but one day it will.
Growing A1 Garage from $200M to $1B | Inc. Magazine Columnist | Apple Top 50 Podcast Host
How do you sell your company culture without being boring? Check out this whacky ad…
Rather than hiring actors, Luke Abbott got his employees to star in the ad.
But does the ad work?
Yes! When Luke put out a job ad for an operations manager, he found an A player in no time.
The guy immediately applied, as he had seen the ad and the other posts about his company's culture, and wanted to be part of the team.
Great job buddy!
PS - In my upcoming newsletter, I featured Luke and shared how he achieved a $342,000 sales month. Keep an eye out for it.
Woman's Business Strategist, You know how you get to the end of the day and you still have all your work to do? I work with people to design their roadmap to get consistent sales and great clients faster.
Estée Lauder, the co-founder of the cosmetics company that bears her name, highlights the value of hard work and perseverance. Her quote serves as a reminder that dedication and effort are the true drivers of achieving goals, rather than merely wishing for success.
" I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." _ Estee Lauder
Watch My Episode on the Unlearn The Crap TV Show >> buff.ly/4bojshL#success#womensbusinessstrategist#workforit#businessgrowth
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Once upon a time as a little kid, i always won many awards in drawing competitions and guess what my fav cartoon was -Mickey Mouse. I have this strongest memory from my childhood days with Mickey,Donald duck. Well wait what😜what’s got that to do with the post. Guess what no two brains can think same, two brains can simultaneously #collaborate to bring in best results for their #Brand. Walt Disney World.
#MyExperience: It was hot.hotter,hottest 🥵🔥Our fam,all waiting for the show at the amphitheater to begin and guess what Erica R was selling this toys that makes bubbles. Can’t move jam packed at 9pm 🕘 but she was selling the products without selling. How cool 😎 is that? #Selling is not #selling. It’s #connectedness,#positivity,#happiness.#Connecting#clients. #customerfocus. We were all like watching her for an hour. Right when the show was about to begin, as i was sitting just two rows away. Saw her name tag and said “Great job Erica”,Guess what the young girls sitting next to me asked me”What did you say her name was” I said:”Erica” OmG they started yelling her name out loud”Erica,Erica”So all the people started a big loud noise👏. Another person started asking other people names and started screaming all the staff names.
#SoMoral of the story: #AmazingPeople. Despite any new #tech is here.#People will make their #Brand heard with their #right emerging #energies with #synergies of amazing #unmatchedtalents. So #Strategy is #simple.#Appreciating the #people will help connect to all #stakeholders. Understanding their #problems and defining new #Problems.Well spreading the joy of #happiness. #BrandVisibility is to help our #Brands#excel for our #LeadersVision by #thinkingwaybigger despite being a #smalldot. Understanding the #valuedrivers creating a new #data and brining #uniqueness by #adapting to that situation and helping our #clients at all times. Being their for our #clientsjourney throughout.
So post permission i am putting her video. Next time you visit big shout to #Erica R👏
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Revenue 💲: How much does The Walt Disney Company make in a day: The company's parks reported a revenue of $7.4 billion during a 90-day period, which to an avg ~$82 million /day or ~$60 million in profit/ day globally. Walt Disney World net worth in 2022 is ~$203.63 billion U.S. dollars.
#SoWhat ⁉️: Just wondering How can we be a #valueadd to their great #innovative#Journey🧐.
#NowWhat⁉️: Challenges forseen per say,Gen alpha’s don’t know #mickey#Minnie etc.
🙋♀️)How can they translate & correlate the newgen #thinktank?
Please think it my way:Today we are into online streaming:
🙋♀️)How can The Walt Disney Company bring in their #vision to their #parks for #customers paying lot of money?
🙋♀️)How can they bring in new ways of may be half day tickets may be?
#Innovation:Amazing to learn about #QR#Photopassaccess ,#Realtimedata, #Merchandising,#product..TBC
Ever considered jumping across that great divide between agencies and clients? Ever wondered what the best and worse bits of each side may be? What's it like being agency side then going to client side and working with agencies?
All this and more is discussed in the latest episode of the NAKED VOICE where Vincent Mesolella tell us of his fascinating journey and experiences working in agencies and now client side.
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A celebrity spokesperson has its benefits, and its liabilities.
Dylan Mulvaney is a good, albeit extreme, example of the latter, but there are others (think Jared).
And, of course, there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of examples of the former.
We have statistical proof, but doubt that anyone would need that since there is so much evidence from the marketplace.
Our research indicates that the key to choosing a celebrity is identifying one with credentials in one’s target market (which we refer to as StreetCred), the breadth and depth of the celebrity’s celebrity (which we refer to as PeoplePower), the visibility of the celebrity throughout one’s TAM (from its bull’s eye to adjacent white space) and the celebrity’s willingness to accept performance based compensation (yes, even billion dollar celebrities expect to be paid).
Some of this can be data driven, but the best decisions are subjective and based on experience.
Who’s your choice for best and worst?
It is no easy feat, managing the social media for all brands at once as a 1 woman army. But it has been the most incredible learning experience of my life.
In these 7 months, I have had to learn quickly, pick up as much as I can, and can honestly say I got 1% better every single day.
It is peak season for our brands. It's the wild wild west! But the ever changing tasks each day keep things fun and exciting.
Making connections with our customers, and seeing the fun products get shipped out, have been the most rewarding parts of the job.
#ecommerce#socialmedia#socialmediamarketing#peakseason#customproducts
🌟 Have you seen our newly updated page on HC Brands? Our hardworking team just gave this page a facelift to show off our company even better than before!
🌟 In the words of our CEO, Bryan Croft:
"Crofty ... what do you do all day?
Well I get to work with a great team of people who manufacture "fun stuff"
making connections with thousands of customers a day."
🤩 We make fun stuff and make meaningful connections with new people everyday.
Click the link to check it out!
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🎤”I’m working late, cause I’m a singer”🎵
Ever dreamt of your favorite pop star serving you a coffee? Well, some lucky fans in London lived that dream!
Sabrina Carpenter, the voice behind the hit single “Espresso,” swapped the stage for the steamer in a genius marketing move with Blank Street Coffee.🌟
🚀Here’s why this was a Latte Fun (and Smart!):
1. Fan-tastic Engagement: Sabrina brewed up more than just coffee—she brewed unforgettable fan moments!
2. Buzz-Worthy: Love it or critique it, everyone’s talking. That’s PR gold. 📈
3. Brand Blend: Partnering with trendy Blank Street Coffee hit the sweet spot, much like her upcoming ice cream collab with Van Leeuwen.🍦
Well, now you know ,why you can’t sleep,
That’s that her, ESPRESSO…☕️🎵
👗 And let’s talk about her Fendi apron—because even baristas can be fashion icons, right?
If you could have any celebrity serve you a drink, who would it be and what would they serve? Comment below and let’s get this convo brewing! 💬👇
#MarketingMagic#SabrinaCarpenter#EspressoLove#FanEngagement#BrandCollaboration#MarketingFun
Regarding Black Friday, I would like to share a few thoughts on the pervasive culture of consumerism that we all face. While the allure of discounts and deals can be tempting, it's crucial to be mindful of our purchasing decisions and avoid falling into the trap of mindless consumerism.
Recommendation 1: Disconnect and Reconnect
If you find yourself struggling to control your spending impulses, consider disconnecting from social media and limiting your screen time. Engage in activities that foster mindfulness and self-reflection, such as reading, spending time in nature, cooking, or pursuing hobbies. Set reminders for yourself to stay focused on your goals and avoid impulsive purchases.
Recommendation 2: Create a Needs vs. Wants List
Construct a detailed list of items you genuinely need or have been considering for a while. This list will serve as a guiding point for your purchases, preventing you from getting swayed by fleeting promotions and advertisements. When confronted with a tempting deal, remind yourself of your list and the true value of your desired items.
Recommendation 3: Let Emotions Settle
Before making any purchasing decisions, allow your emotions to settle. Close any email, social media tab, or TV program that triggered your buying impulse. Take a few hours, or even days, to reconsider your decision with a clear head. Black Friday's limited-time offers are designed to evoke impulsive behavior, so resist the urge to rush into decisions.
By implementing these strategies, you can navigate the Black Friday frenzy with a clear mind and avoid falling into the trap of mindless consumerism.
Finally I would like to share this video with a very powerful message
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