Seth Godin-群落管理(Tribe Management)
群落管理(Tribe Management)
from Seth’s Blog by (作者授权翻译. 未经作者和译者许可 请勿转载.)
今天的品牌管理还停留在1999年的水平。
旧式的品牌管理就是上令下行、闭门造车、办公室政治加上编造预算。此类品牌管理会要求MBA的学位,大谈特谈广告和货架陈列面之类。那个MBA为了得到像样的产品而去和产品部门和生产部门争论,还要为拿到更多的广告费与CFO斗争不休。
群落管理则从截然不同的角度审视这个世界。
从许可开始。许可营销认为大多数公司可以积累的真正的财富并不是一个虚幻的品牌,而是能够向需要信息的人传达他们期望的、个人化的相关资讯的特权。
这也进一步支持了以下事实:人们真正想要的是人与人之间的沟通能力,而不是与某个企业的联系。因此许可也被用来建立群落,把那些想获得信息的人联结在一起。这样可以帮助他们找到志趣相投的朋友,为他们提供可以共同探讨的话题。
由于这一点如此重要,理所当然的,产品开发部门、生产部门和CFO都应该积极配合群落经理才对。整个公司所做的每一件事都是为了满足群落的要求,使其发展壮大。
你不再为了你的产品寻找客户,而是反过来寻找适合自己的群落的产品和服务。Jerry Garcia明白这一点。你明白了吗?
以上观点适合谁呢?唱片公司、博客写手、地产商、招聘人员,以及图书发行商和保险公司等。也适合Andrew Weil、Rickie Lee Jones和《华尔街时报》的Rupert这些人……但是它对于小型网络公司和风险投资者也同样适用。
群落可能因你而成,也可能是客户自发形成的。挑战则来自为联系群工作并将它变得更好。
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Tribe Management
from Seth’s Blog by (作者授权翻译. 未经作者和译者许可 请勿转载.)
Brand management is so 1999.
Brand management was top down, internally focused, political and money based. It involved an MBA managing the brand, the ads, the shelf space, etc. The MBA argued with product development and manufacturing to get decent stuff, and with the CFO to get more cash to spend on ads.
Tribe management is a whole different way of looking at the world.
It starts with permission, the understanding that the real asset most organizations can build isn’t an amorphous brand but is in fact the privilege of delivering anticipated, personal and relevant messages to people who want to get them.
It adds to that the fact that what people really want is the ability to connect to each other, not to companies. So the permission is used to build a tribe, to build people who want to hear from the company because it helps them connect, it helps them find each other, it gives them a story to tell and something to talk about.
And of course, since this is so important, product development and manufacturing and the CFO work for the tribal manager. Everything the organization does is to feed and grow and satisfy the tribe.
Instead of looking for customers for your products, you seek out products (and services) for the tribe. Jerry Garcia understood this. Do you?
Who does this work for? Try record companies and bloggers, real estate agents and recruiters, book publishers and insurance companies. It works for Andrew Weil and for Rickie Lee Jones and for Rupert at the WSJ… But it also works for a small web development firm or a venture capitalist.
People form tribes with or without us. The challenge is to work for the tribe and make it something even better.








