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25 ways your business can help fight poverty

By on October 15, 2008 in cause marketing, charitable giving, corporate responsibility, environmentally responsible, socially responsible

It’s Blog Action Day! The purpose of Blog Action Day is to create a worldwide discussion regarding an important issue. This year, it’s poverty. For this post, I wanted my post to meet three criteria: To bring value to readers, it must result in a list of creative ways business can help fight poverty To [...]

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A day made better for teachers by OfficeMax

By on October 13, 2008 in cause marketing, charitable giving, corporate responsibility, socially responsible, videos

Did you know that, on average, teachers spend about $1,200 of their own money to cover the cost of classroom supplies? The “teacher-funded” classroom is an outrage when you consider teacher compensation, and OfficeMax has partnered with Adopt-A-Classroom “to recognize extraordinary teachers for their dedication and innovative approach to education.” During their A Day Made [...]

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TOMS Shoes: More than different

By on October 9, 2008 in cause marketing, charitable giving, corporate responsibility, socially responsible, videos

TOMS Shoes was founded by Blake Mycoskie after a life-changing trip to Argentina. While there, he learned about the Alpargata soft shoe, but ironically, also met children in villages that had no shoes. So he created a shoe company whose goals aren’t based on shoes sold, but on shoes given away. For every pair of [...]

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How can business help the poor?

By on September 25, 2008 in cause marketing, charitable giving, corporate responsibility, socially responsible, videos

The Responsible Marketing Blog will be participating in Blog Action Day on Wednesday, October 15th. Here’s what it’s about: First and last, the purpose of Blog Action Day is to create a discussion. We ask bloggers to take a single day out of their schedule and focus it on an important issue. By doing so [...]

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Kissing a frog to help the environment

By on August 15, 2008 in cause marketing, corporate responsibility, environmentally responsible, fun

Earlier this summer, Outsource Marketing participated in The Olympus Press Print Green Summit, an annual event attended by over 250 people from 150 companies to focus on ways to, well, print greener. Olympus sponsored an interesting origami-making contest. To enter, contestants created an origami character with special FSC certified paper, took a picture of it [...]

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Love it or hate it? “Kiss my Astra”

By on August 12, 2008 in corporate responsibility, love it or hate it?, social networking, viral marketing, word of mouth

Do you want to Kiss my Astra? I didn’t think so. But Saturn’s new campaign asks you to do just that, then share it with the world. Join Saturn’s Ning-powered ImSaturn social network, then upload a picture of you kissing a Saturn Astra and you could win one. Is “Kiss my Astra,” just a low-brow [...]

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Bite-sized Friday: Chickens to China

By on July 11, 2008 in corporate responsibility, digital marketing, message responsible, social media, socially responsible

Bennett Gordon from the always good Utne Reader shared the following interview with Lucas Conley, author of Obsessive Branding Disorder. Includes audio, video and a link to an excerpt from the book. Looking for social media case studies? Here are 27 of ‘em from Now is Gone, by Geoff Livingston. In Indecent exposures: Companies don’t [...]

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Why corporate America should give a damn

By on June 26, 2008 in corporate responsibility, socially responsible

The first two lines of Joan Jett’s 80′s song “Bad Reputation” go like this: I dont give a damn ’bout my reputation You’re living in the past—its a new generation Joan Jett may not give a damn, but corporate America should—it’s hitting them square in the pocketbook. A recent Harris Interactive poll showed a whopping [...]

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OMFG: Responsible or not?

By on June 24, 2008 in authenticity, corporate responsibility, responsible or not?, sex sells, socially responsible, videos, word of mouth

For the uninitiated: OMG = “Oh my God.” OMFG = The same, plus a strategically placed F-bomb. First time I saw these ads, I wanted to write about it here, but I couldn’t seem to find the CW’s justification for taking “OMG,”—a phrase that already puts some people on edge—and plusing it with the “F” [...]

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Using social media to create social good

By on June 23, 2008 in cause marketing, charitable giving, corporate responsibility, digital marketing, social networking, socially responsible

By popular demand, here’s my deck from PodCamp Seattle: As you probably noticed, I’m not a big fan of slides full of bullets—it’s mostly images. View all the websites mentioned in the deck, as well as all the sites recommended by Twitter friends here: http://del.icio.us/patrickbyers/socialgood I’ve also bookmarked all of the Twitter contributors in case [...]

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Are you amped for PodCamp? Join me in Seattle on June 21st

By on May 28, 2008 in announcement, corporate responsibility, digital marketing, environmentally responsible, podcast, social networking, socially responsible, speeches

Responsible marketers know that social media is changing the business landscape and has become an integral part of the marketing mix. If you don’t know social media because you just haven’t had the time to figure it out, now you can get a good primer in less than one day—for free. PodCamp is coming to [...]

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(RED) under fire: Group says buy less; show us the books

By on May 23, 2008 in cause marketing, consumerism, corporate responsibility, socially responsible, videos

By now, you may have seen or possibly even purchased a (RED) product. If you haven’t, here’s a little background from the Product (RED) website: (RED) was created by Bono and Bobby Shriver, Chairman of DATA to raise awareness and money for The Global Fund by teaming up with the world’s most iconic brands to [...]

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Responsible or not? Unilever

By on May 7, 2008 in corporate responsibility, environmentally responsible, message responsible, responsible or not?, sex sells, socially responsible, videos

I’ve mentioned Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty that encourages self esteem for young girls. It’s smart, it zags when everyone else is zigging, and as the father of young daughter it makes me want to stand up and cheer. But of course, Responsible Marketing is never black and white. Dove’s parent company, Unilever, has been [...]

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The Seven Keys to Responsible Marketing

By on April 30, 2008 in about this blog, announcement, casting responsible, corporate responsibility, environmentally responsible, execution responsible, information overload, message responsible, podcast, roi responsible, socially responsible, strategically responsible

Each month, we share marketing articles, links and information with the Friends of Outsource Marketing. This month, we added “podcast” to that list. My partner Bill Boyd has done quite a few podcasts for clients, and decided it was time to do one for us. Click play below to listen: Can you help me answer [...]

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Did Tyson’s ‘antibiotic-free’ chicken claims mislead consumers?

By on April 28, 2008 in corporate responsibility, environmentally responsible, false advertising

By Dan Murphy, Guest Blogger Back in June 2007, Tyson Foods, the nation’s No. 1 chicken processor, launched a new “Raised Without Antibiotics” natural chicken line. Along with a self-congratulatory ad campaign, the Springdale, Ark.-based firm touted its new product as the solution to the contentious issue of using low-level antibiotics as a growth enhancer [...]

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Pampers math: 1 pack = 1 vaccine

By on April 16, 2008 in cause marketing, charitable giving, corporate responsibility, environmentally responsible, socially responsible, videos

Last year, Pampers teamed with Unicef to provide tetanus shots for mothers and children in developing countries. Their campaign was set to last three months, but I saw the above ad last night, so it appears they’ve extended the program. Everyone wins: The vaccination recipients–for obvious reason, P&G–because of the goodwill it generates, and the [...]

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Swirly goodness? Pinkberry not all good

By on April 15, 2008 in branding, corporate responsibility, false advertising, message responsible, simplicity

I like Pinkberry‘s marketing. The chain of frozen confection stores based in New York and California speak in an engaging, human voice. Their branding is clean and simple, and they know that less is more. But Pinkberry’s founder claimed less when there was more — more additives and more calories, to be precise. And that, [...]

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I got duped by Airborne

By on April 3, 2008 in corporate responsibility, deceptive marketing, false advertising, word of mouth

Seems everyone I know has been down for the count this year with a cold, the flu or some other crud that just won’t go away. It also seems everyone I know swears by Airborne. We have a tube in our cabinet and have purchased the stuff since shortly after the product appeared. Boy, do [...]

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Responsible or not? Apple, Inc.

By on March 31, 2008 in corporate responsibility, environmentally responsible, message responsible, responsible or not?, simplicity, social networking, socially responsible

Image from Wired Magazine I was interviewed by MacNews last week for their article The iPhone and Social Networks: Fast Friends? Read it and you might think I’m an Apple fanboy. I’m not. Apple has introduced some game-changing, highly usable, extremely cool products. But the company has a less than sterling reputation regarding the way [...]

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Diet pills, boob jobs and facelifts…for tween and teen girls

By on March 28, 2008 in corporate responsibility, socially responsible

As if ultra-violent and gory first-person shooter games aren’t controversial enough, now girls age nine to 16 can compete to “become the most famous, beautiful, sought after bimbo across the globe” in the Miss Bimbo game. To win, players enter beauty contests and buy lingerie, breast enhancements, facelifts and diet pills. Nice. The site currently [...]

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