Simon Mainwaring

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Simon Mainwaring

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There’s s a very special partnership underway this August that shows you just how powerful civil society and business collaborations can be. It’s a combined effort by Walgreens, the United Nations Foundation, and Shot@Life to give the children in the developing world the vaccinations that they need to prevent life-threatening diseases. At its heart, it’s […]

There’s s a very special partnership underway this August that shows you just how powerful civil society and business collaborations can be. It’s a combined effort by Walgreens, the United Nations Foundation, and Shot@Life to give the children in the developing world the vaccinations that they need to prevent life-threatening diseases. At its heart, it’s …

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It’s that time of year again: the SXSW Panel Picker is live and the session I look forward to presenting is called “The New Breed of Brands That Will Lead the Future.” With companies of all types facing a perfect storm of social crises, social technologies and customer activism, this session will come at the …

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Most brands fail to build a self-sustaining customer community because they only reach out to their customers when they want something. Too many brands only connect when they need to push a specific product or offer- and then they stop talking to their customers. Not surprisingly, their community fades away and they find themselves in …

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Here’s one of the most common reasons companies fail to keep growing after they achieve some success: They fail to take their employees with them. As your company reaches scale and an expanding base of employees becomes your front line, you must clearly communicate what the company stands for and provide the right social media …

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The future of profit is purpose. We say this often at We First, but this is something Steve Jobs understood so well, almost 20 years ago. Always a visionary, Jobs was already living in Marketing 3.0 where marketing is about meaning, values, and legacy. In this classic video, Jobs talks about his experience of how …

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“Nothing seems more obvious to me that a product or service only becomes a brand when it is imbued with profound values that translate into fact.” – Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group From F500s to startups, we see brands of all sizes and across all industries make the same critical mistake: They don’t know …

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