Brand Flakes for Breakfast
Monday, May 12, 2008

how to create a mission statement


Working on a company mission statement, or brand mantra? Try fitting into a single Tweet. What a grand idea, from Jared Goralnick, on Twitter.

Since Twitter only allows 140 characters, it forces the writer to weigh every word. Like a producer weighs every second of a 30 second spot. More importantly, a 140 or less brand mantra is more likely to be read by your audience. So much more than those 3 paragraphs that the marketing committee drafted as a group, and then legal edited after the CEO added a couple of lines...awesome advice.

Labels: , ,

posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:30 AM   3 comments

3 Comments:

At 12:44 PM, Blogger Jared Goralnick said...

Thanks for the mention, Darryl! What's your mission statement in under 140?

 
At 12:57 PM, Blogger darryl ohrt said...

Oh, that's so easy, for us:

Create cool stuff. Have fun.

Could even be shortened to:

Create. Have fun.

 
At 3:23 PM, Blogger Jared Goralnick said...

I like, Darryl. I mean, stuff is a bit vague, but I see where you're going with it and really not enough of us ARE trying to have fun with it all.

 

Post a Comment

<< Home

  A Blog Devoted to News, Ideas, Design, Branding and Gossip at Plaid.
Think Plaid House of Plaid Blog Facts
Darryl Ohrt
David Plain
Justus Johnson
Rob Biddiscombe
Matt Hunsberger
Steph Fuda
RJ Fenn
Sara Champion
Posts
this week at Plaid
meet sara.
"they don’t use social media in my industry"
hot to be a superstar
uniqlo t-shirt promo rocks. again.
mmmm. meatwater.
everything you ever needed to know about moleskine...
stuff you can't do on an iphone
i see dead people.
your logo needs to cost more than your lunch.
Archive
Tags
Feeds
ATOM Site Feed

Subscribe in Bloglines

Add to netvibes

Add to My AOL

Add to Google

Subscribe in NewsGator Online

 

Powered by Blogger