Disruptive marketing is about taking all the rules you’ve faithfully followed in marketing for many years, and throwing them out of the bland and boring window.
The whole point of marketing is to make your brand stand out, engage and excite your target demographic and scale your business! How can you honestly do that if you’re practicing the same tired old tactics as everybody else?
As reassuring as it may be to hold on to best-practices and tried-and-tested strategies, sometimes the rules really are there to be broken. It’s about moving past the “what we’ve always done” mindset, and explore innovative and exciting.
Ahhh finally, it would appear that those many years of disrupting the class and being given countless detention seem to be paying off. Our innate ability to catch attention, generate wild ideas and simply cause mayhem, is now how we make a living! Who would have thunk it!?
Many moons ago, being called disruptive carried with it negative connotations. They’d tell you to sit you in the corner for being different, explain the need to “fit in”, and revert back to “what we’ve always done”. This mentality seems to have also carried through to the business owners of yesteryear, leaving most industries ripe for a little … well disrupting.
For those forward-thinking organisations that are willing to push past societal “norms” the rewards are generally quite great. Disruptive campaigns have the ability to propel your brand and its perceptions into the stratosphere. Interestingly, once competitors discover what you’ve done and that it has worked, they often try to replicate. Funny how that happens right? One small step and all that …
You know your audience right? You know what makes them tick! So our job is quite easy if you think about it. All we do is find clever ways to create something attention grabbing that your target audience would love! When done right, they’ll seek you out, tell everybody what they have seen and really connect with your brand.
Disruptive campaigns are a way for your prospective customers to clearly see what you stand for and align their personal values, with your brand values. When you create something so powerful that resonates on a deeper-level with your target audience, it no longer feels like marketing too them. It just feels right!
Have you actually watched adverts on TV/Online recently? Especially those from the big brands? They really are just plain awful! The same tired, boring ideas, being repurposed and routinely pumped out across the same channels. No doubt by people that would describe one of their main hobbies as “being a foodie”. Just FYI it’s not a hobby! Eating is not a hobby!
These geniuses really are spending tens (often hundreds) of thousands of moolah creating these advertising abominations. It’s almost a type of sick joke. Disruptive Marketing is not about who can spend the most cash, take the largest commission and order a round of Krispy Kreme doughnuts to pure nothingness with a client.
It’s about understanding the budget and then looking at how you can make maximum impact and generate the greatest ROI possible. The best part, you really can tailor to any budget, you just have to get a little more creative and go left-field.
The best marketing campaigns out there are those that generate an emotional response. With disruptive marketing campaigns, that is the mission at hand. We want to elicit a response that generates real feelings within our target audience. We want them to laugh, cry, feel shocked … you get the picture. We want them to stop, pay attention and actively engage in what we’re doing.
Bland and beige has no place in disruption. We strive to draw those around us into the story and connect with them on an emotional level. When someone buys from you on emotion, logic goes out the window. They feel so strongly about your offering, they HAVE TO work with you. The best campaigns are those that have never been seen before and those that offer value.
COCKTAIL DRONE DELIVERY
The concept we came up with? Simple: deliver refreshing cocktails to people’s homes, gardens, parks – wherever they were soaking up the summer vibes. But make it EXTRA! Cue the campaign, ‘Catch Cocktails, Not Feelings’. A drone-powered delivery service like no other.
ELTON JOHN TAKEOVER
We filmed a disruptive advertising campaign, in public, that went viral immediately! We hired a fake Elton John, fake “Security”, even fake “Primark” staff, not to mention the Bentley (which we broke and had to tow home!)
SKIP HIRE POOL PARTY
Client asks, “Can you do an MTV Cribs style advert for us?” Hussel Marketing’s response: “Hold my beer!” 😝😝. Working with M60, the dream client who’s game for anything (and we mean anything!), we embarked on a mission to make skip hire the talk of the town.
THE AIRPOD HUNT
When our founder Lewis had his Apple AirPods stolen off a Qatar Airways layover flight in Doha he had the joy, nay the privilege of watching them travel the world for no less than five months … The world tuned in as he set about on a mission to hunt the thief down, and get them back.
Customer reviews.
We’re not going to sit here and tell you how amazing we are because let’s face it, anyone can pretend they’re the mutts nuts. But we will include a few of the client reviews we’ve received on our journey, hopefully giving you more of an insight into what it’s like working with us.
Marketing Team UK & EU - Lansinoh®
Marketing Manager - Brennan Industries
Marketing Director - FASTSIGNS Manchester
Owner/Director - HM Staffing
Owner/Director - Infusion 51a
Brand Manager - Revolución de Cuba