Tag Archives: innovation

My Stand Against False Communities: I Want Real Change, Not a Marketing Assist

Don’t call it a community and don’t plan to build one unless it will offer real value to the people who participate. Not just to you or  your brand or the top-dogs within the community.  That’s called marketing or complicit back-scratching, but not community in a sense of deep give and take and shared value, […]

method Soap Markets Goodwill and Detergent With Mobile Laundromat

1. Collaboration 2. Innovation 3. Care 4. What would MacGyver do? (ingenuity & industry to impact the outcome) 5. Keep method weird Cleaning-products brand method applied its five values to launch its new laundry detergent last month. Partnering with Goodwill Industries (collaboration), method toured the streets of New York City in a glass-walled truck that […]

How Transparency Can Benefit Your Company (There’s More To Be Gained Than Consumer Trust)

“If you’re not scared by what you’re revealing, than you’re not being transparent enough” –Jeffrey Hollender, Seventh Generation If real transparency is scary, why create it?  Like with most things that bring real value (and take real effort), there are several benefits of having a glass-walled company.  A note before the benefits: transparency isn’t a […]