#9: BlendtecBefore ¡°Will It Blend¡±A faceless company with expensive productNew marketing director means a set of new eyesA charismatic CEO with some interesting habits¡°Extreme blending¡± as a regular occurrenceBlendtecAfter ¡°Will It Blend¡±Millions of Eyes and Ears: 65 million YouTube views, 120 million WillItBlend.com viewsDominate the Search Results: Turn search buzzwords (¡°Chuck Norris¡±, ¡°iPhone¡±) into video trafficMore Efficient, More Effective: They¡¯ve received national media coverage (TV appearances, awards) that is equivalent to millions of dollars in advertisingIncreasing the Bottomline: Total Blender retail sales grew 700% in the past two yearsMaking the World a Better Place:Blendtec auctioned the blended iPhone on Ebay which sold for $1,000 and proceeds were donated to a children¡¯s hospital
#10: The Trouble Ford Was InConsumers don¡¯t trust corporationsTrust needs a face and a nameEnter the automotive crisisFord put into an interesting positionCan a bad situation be a brand defining moment?Get Your Content Out There: Traffic increased 100% in past 4 months to thefordstory.com¡°Ford Story¡± CEO YouTube video has received 53,354 viewsA Strong Leading Man: Scott Monty has 14265 followers on Twitter and conducts almost daily interviews with blogs, news sites, and televisionBe the Brand Everyone Is Talking About: #12 in AdAge¡¯s most social brands of 2008, next to Disney, Sony, Dell and AppleOwning Your Story, Before It Owns You:Ford effectively changed the conversation around the automotive bailout to position themselves in a different light than the others