{"id":317,"date":"2006-10-12T00:36:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T00:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andresb.net\/?p=317"},"modified":"2006-10-12T00:36:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T00:36:15","slug":"y-tambin-estn-los-que-jams-entienden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/post\/2006\/10\/y-tambin-estn-los-que-jams-entienden\/","title":{"rendered":"Y tambi&#233;n est&#225;n los que jam&#225;s entienden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuando le\u00ed que estaba ocurriendo la reuni\u00f3n anual de la <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ana.net\/\">Association of National Advertisers<\/a> (ANA) en Orlando, Florida, autom\u00e1ticamente se instal\u00f3 en mi cabeza la imagen de los t\u00edpicos ejecutivos de publicidad de comic: semi-petrificados, absortos en un mundo cerrado de focus groups y repetici\u00f3n de jingles en TV. Oh my god, qu\u00e9 feliz estoy de haberme equivocado terriblemente.<\/p>\n<p>A. G. Lafley, el CEO de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pg.com\">Procter &#038; Gamble<\/a>, dijo: \u00ab<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/09\/business\/media\/09adcol.html?_r=2&#038;ref=business&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">Tenemos que aprender a poner nuestras marcas en manos del consumidor<\/a>\u00bb (requiere registrarse, pasa con Bugmenot). Es como estar so\u00f1ando.<\/p>\n<p>Procter es una empresa que -aunque gana toneladas de d\u00f3lares por minuto- se suele usar como <em>ejemplo de todo lo malo<\/em> cuando se habla de publicidad: hist\u00f3ricamente han dictado e impuesto la imagen que los consumidores deb\u00edan percibir acerca de sus productos, lo que los llev\u00f3 muchas veces a una horrorosa <em>par\u00e1lisis por an\u00e1lisis<\/em>, campa\u00f1as tan filtradas v\u00eda focus groups que el resultado final no convenc\u00eda a nadie, por querer complacer a todos, y la frase favorita de los brand managers que se creen mucho: \u00ab<strong>ac\u00e1 no somos Procter, queremos creatividad<\/strong>, queremos arriesgarnos un poco\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfQu\u00e9 tienen que decir ahora? Parece que el monstruo <em>procteriano<\/em> (y varios de sus amigotes, seg\u00fan se ve en la nota del NY Times) se despert\u00f3 de golpe y sintoniz\u00f3 todo lo que se viene diciendo desde unos 6 a\u00f1os atr\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 tanta alegr\u00eda? Porque para m\u00ed es un GRAN avance en t\u00e9rminos del nivel de juego en el mundo del marketing. Porque me hace bien como empresario, porque quiero desarrollar un negocio cuyo aporte al ecosistema no sea un jingle, y porque como audiencia quiero que me hablen inteligentemente.<\/p>\n<p>Porque casi lloro cuando <a href=\"http:\/\/makemarketinghistory.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/they-just-dont-get-it-2.html\">descubr\u00ed que la Secretar\u00eda de Salud del Reino Unido invent\u00f3<\/a> una banda de \u00bfrock? llamada B\u00e4ackpain para promover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2398306.html\">una campa\u00f1a de concientizaci\u00f3n por la salud de las espaldas brit\u00e1nicas<\/a>, con p\u00e1gina en MySpace y todo. \u00abA la gente le result\u00f3 gracioso el grupo, as\u00ed que lo lanzamos\u00bb, parece ser TODO el razonamiento detr\u00e1s de esto.<\/p>\n<p>Porque estoy escuchando a un fulano de Levi&#8217;s en Canal Sony, que nos cuenta las bondades de su <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmologia.com\/2006\/08\/levis-ipod-primeras-imagenes\">nuevo pantal\u00f3n con cableado para iPod<\/a>, diciendo LITERALMENTE: \u00ablos <strong>consumidores<\/strong> pueden controlar el iPod desde un control joystick&#8230;\u00bb (no es exacto, pero lo que importa est\u00e1).<\/p>\n<p>Gracias, fulano de Levi&#8217;s, eso me hace sentir TAN valuable como componente de alguno de tus gr\u00e1ficos de demanda&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there are those who will NEVER get it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. G. Lafley, CEO of Procter &#038; Gamble, says at the Association of National Advertisers in Orlando: \u00abConsumers are beginning in a very real sense to own our brands and participate in their creation,\u00bb he said. \u00ab<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/09\/business\/media\/09adcol.html?_r=2&#038;ref=business&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">We need to learn to begin to let go<\/a>\u00ab.<\/p>\n<p>Man, that&#8217;s an epiphany for me. When I learned about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ana.net\/\">ANA<\/a> meeting, I thought of the pre-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cluetrain.com\/\">Cluetrain<\/a> ad execs, semi-petrified, hipnotized by the focus group boredom and some TV jingle repeated like a mantra. Wrong I was.<\/p>\n<p>What to say now? The <em>proctersaur<\/em> seems to be awaken now, and in tune with the <em>conversation<\/em>. I still don&#8217;t know if this will stop the analysis paralysis that made the <a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/article?article_id=48441\">Tide campaign appear 5 years late<\/a>, but this sure is a huge step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>You may ask what&#8217;s in it for me? Lots, grasshopper. I think this elevates the playing field in the marketing world. It favors me as an entrepreneur, because I want my company to produce more than jingles and watered-down campaigns, and clients that expect much more than that. And because I want to be spoken to intelligently as a member of the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Because <a href=\"http:\/\/makemarketinghistory.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/they-just-dont-get-it-2.html\">I almost cried when I found<\/a> out the Health Secretary in UK formed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2398306.html\">fake rock band to generate buzz around back pain<\/a>. All because \u00abpeople in focus groups appreciated the humor of the rock band\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>And because I&#8217;m watching some dolt from Levi&#8217;s on TV, speaking robotically about how <strong>consumers<\/strong> can enjoy and control their iPods from their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.levi.com\/lsco\/levi\/promotions\/l_redwire.jsp\">Redwire pants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, <em>consumers<\/em>, not music fans, not cool guys in Levi&#8217;s, not fun gals on bikes. Consumers. You made me feel such a valuable part of you demand graph, Levi&#8217;s drone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuando le\u00ed que estaba ocurriendo la reuni\u00f3n anual de la Association of National Advertisers (ANA) en Orlando, Florida, autom\u00e1ticamente se instal\u00f3 en mi cabeza la imagen de los t\u00edpicos ejecutivos de publicidad de comic: semi-petrificados, absortos en un mundo cerrado de focus groups y repetici\u00f3n de jingles en TV. 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