What if an energy company opened a gym?
A couple of students (Erik Hogfeldt and Gustav Johansson) take a fresh look at how a large Nordic energy company might use its marketing budget if it wanted to innovate.
The idea delivers much ...
- Create awareness about the product - and how much energy it takes to produce
- Increase contact from a monthly bill to a useful daily habit
- Move brand from staid and boring to fun and active
- Any energy you produce gets removed from your bill - and your waist line
- Single sign on and syncronisation to online hub
- Energy becomes something you manage - through an interest in the bill
- Simple calendar integration so it get scheduled into my life
- Auto status updates based on proximity to gym
- Visibility into which friends are also active
- Turn facebook or twitter status fields replace ad space because this is something people want to share
- Mobile app that allows you to access not only your bill but manage the devices at home
Above all, it makes sense that people would want to get involved - and it doesn't require any significant new behaviours. It's certainly something that could be funded as a trial out of a marketing budget.
One question I have is why didn't Fortum run with any of the ideas? Here's the web site today ...
