Freeconomics

At the age of 40, King Gillette was a frustrated inventor, a bitter anticapitalist, and a salesman of cork-lined bottle caps. It was 1895, and despite ideas, energy, and wealthy parents, he had little to show for his work. He blamed the evils of market competition. Indeed, the previous year he had published a book, The Human Drift, which argued that all industry should be taken over by a single corporation owned by the public and that millions of Americans should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls. His boss at the bottle cap company, meanwhile, had just one piece of advice: Invent something people use and throw away.

One day, while he was shaving with a straight razor that was so worn it could no longer be sharpened, the idea came to him. What if the blade could be made of a thin metal strip? Rather than spending time maintaining the blades, men could simply discard them when they became dull. A few years of metallurgy experimentation later, the disposable-blade safety razor was born. But it didn't take off immediately. In its first year, 1903, Gillette sold a total of 51 razors and 168 blades. Over the next two decades, he tried every marketing gimmick he could think of. He put his own face on the package, making him both legendary and, some people believed, fictional. He sold millions of razors to the Army at a steep discount, hoping the habits soldiers developed at war would carry over to peacetime. He sold razors in bulk to banks so they could give them away with new deposits ("shave and save" campaigns). Razors were bundled with everything from Wrigley's gum to packets of coffee, tea, spices, and marshmallows. The freebies helped to sell those products, but the tactic helped Gillette even more. By giving away the razors, which were useless by themselves, he was creating demand for disposable blades. A few billion blades later, this business model is now the foundation of entire industries: Give away the cell phone, sell the monthly plan; make the videogame console cheap and sell expensive games; install fancy coffeemakers in offices at no charge so you can sell managers expensive coffee sachets.

Clutter (interupt message delivery)

it is a distraction, beware.

Communications

IBM research
68% Customer stop using your product because of unkept promised from companies.
9% Customer stop using your product because of the price.
14% Customer stop using your product because of functional reason.
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Promotions

Event booms, had attack Indonesia with an excessive force as a promotion media, what hurts is this strategy is also imitated by other smaller brands, creating clutter in promotion world. When are we begin to educating people, and giving people leads to reach their destination, so much money is wasted on unethical defacement. There must be solutions to this matter. (it is called research).

Marketing Hacks

Stealth Marketing: Any practice designed to deceive people about the involvement of marketers in a communication.
Shilling: Paying people to talk about (or promote) a product without disclosing that they are working for the company; impersonating a customer.
Infiltration: Using fake identities in an online discussion to promote a product; taking over a web site, conversation, or live event against the wishes or rules set by the proprietor.
Comment Spam: Using automated software ('bots') to post unrelated or inappropriate comments to blogs or other online communities.
Defacement: Vandalizing or damaging property to promote a product.
Spam: Sending bulk or unsolicited email or other messages without clear, voluntary permission.
Falsification: Knowingly disseminating false or misleading information.

Follow Instructions

What is COUNTER MARKETING? Counter marketing is alternative to an old fashioned Promotion, Advertising and Sales. We are sick and tired of people try to shove their product in our face with their cheesy advertising, and false promotion lying to the customer and try to lure us with money, and the use of scam artist as sales people, get it. We are against that and we are going to get you!

"I like to think of it as an intellectual adventure story. It draws from psychology and sociology and epidemiology, and uses examples from the worlds of business and education and fashion and media. If I had to draw an analogy to another book, I'd say it was like Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, in the sense that it takes theories and ideas from the social sciences and shows how they can have real relevance to our lives. There's a whole section of the book devoted to explaining the phenomenon of word of mouth, for example. I think that word of mouth is something created by three very rare and special psychological types, whom I call Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen. I profile three people who I think embody those types, and then I use the example of Paul Revere and his midnight ride to point out the subtle characteristics of this kind of social epidemic. So just in that chapter there is a little bit of sociology, a little of psychology and a little bit of history, all in aid of explaining a very common but mysterious phenomenon that we deal with every day. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not sure that this book fits into any one category. That's why I call it an adventure story. I think it will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the world around them in a different way. I think it can give the reader an advantage--a new set of tools. Of course, I also think they'll be in for a very fun ride". .malcolm gladwell.

Your Mess

Your result.

Your waste.

Your implementation.

Your strategy

This is your people.

Before you jump in it.

Test the water