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Six Marketing Lessons from the Old Spice Man

Craig Reiss from Entrepreneur.com writes the 5 lessons from the hugely popular Old Spice Man commercials.

1.    Create a strong persona
2.    Seed social networks
3.    Engage the influencers
4.    Personalize the response
5.    Keep the videos simple and short

My own suggestion:

6.   Extended it to the mobile phone: I really liked how the Old Spice Man was pushed through most of the online marketing and social media channels. I especially liked  when he responded to comments on You Tube and Twitter about his commercial and answered questions. I would have loved it if the commercials would have ended with “Ladies want to know the secrets of my man sent? Text OLDSPICEMAN to 65047 to learn.” This way the brand would connect not only socially but in the very personal mobile space.