Deirdre Breakenridge: Q&A with Author Stefan Pollack on iGen & Communicating with the Next Generation

You may be wondering about iGen, also known as Generation Z, and how they interact and communicate. Stefan Pollack, President of The Pollack PR Marketing Group and the Author of the book,Disrupted, knows just how to reach iGen and the best ways to become a relevant part of their world. I read Stefan’s book and wanted to share his insights with you. Below is our Q&A interview to give you a glimpse into the youth culture of today.

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Convince and Convert: How the “Disrupted Generation” Responds to Marketing

In the summer of 2012, as I sat around with my colleagues in our conference room one afternoon, we were jolted by an “aha” moment. We realized that the coming of age of the newest generation, the iGen (or generation Z) is right now and that there would be another disruption similar, but different, from the one of the past decade. It was time to hustle and really scrutinize this generation, which turned 18 in 2012.

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New Book Guides PR and Marketing Professionals Into the New Communications Era

Tenured PR and marketing professional, Stefan Pollack’s debut book, “Disrupted—From Gen Y to iGen: Communicating with the Next Generation,” is now available online and in bookstores nationwide. The book spotlights both challenges and opportunities that brand managers, marketers, and public relations professionals face in a consumer-driven marketplace, after the great digital communications disruption of the last decade.

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WOMMA: Content: Don’t Just Create, Curate

If you consider that the entirety of human knowledge is contained on devices we keep in our pockets, it is no wonder that marketers are having a difficult time connecting with their audiences. After all, why would they listen to brands when they can listen to every trusted source apart from brands and learn the “realscoop” before brands even open their mouths? So, how are brands supposed to reach audiences that will, as a default, listen to friends instead?

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Disrupted Available for Pre-Order

Pacific Coast Creative Publishing just launched pre-orders for Disrupted, From Gen Y to iGen: Communicating with the Next Generation. If you order now, you can buy it for at a discounted $19.99 rate. Orders will ship in May.

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