Getting Urban!

By Jasper

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A cornerstone of every successful marketing campaign, product or brand launch is understanding the target market. This means not only understanding the key industry drivers – what will make the audience buy the product, pick the phone to ask for the service etc. – but also knowing how best to communicate with that audience.

Here at Portfolio, we have to frequently virtually put ourselves in the place of anyone from a teenager wondering what to do with their summer, through a young professional buying a Timberland jacket to an elderly lady wanting to take up exercise.

So it’s vitally important we keep up to date with the latest language, trends and attitudes. Cue, a fantastic web discovery:

The Urban Dictionary – http://www.urbandictionary.com

Today we’ve learnt the meaning of:

A great thing about the website is also that whatever the definition, with 1 click you can become seconds away from owning a mug with it on – definitely Web 2.0 at its best!

Let’s just hope the recipient of the Imba mug in this year’s secret Santa Santa doesn’t take it too personally!

Filed in: Things that inspire us • Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
 

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