Following on from my post yesterday, I found this item in today’s Private Eye.
HSBC’s current ad campaign continues its theme of “The World’s Local Bank.” But it’s just another of those empty oxymorons beloved of financial institutions who have nothing interesting, different or persuasive to offer customers but need to show their marketing muscle to keep up with the other banks.
Given that in March HSBC announced a clean profit of
I linked to this paper on wicked problems the other day and Chris Corrigan commented “there’s a lot in that paper eh?”. Which is true.
I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more
Passion brands bring people together based on common interests and excitements. I’m particularly interested in ones created from the bottom up, as opposed to driven by producers concerned mainly with profit.
Just back from another extraordinary gathering at Medinge where the community that has produced Beyond Branding meets each summer. I was planning to keep this
Michael Hammer’s new book, The Agenda, is about the rise of customer power. But is customer-centricity really such a good model for business and society?
Thanks to Matt Tucker at Smith Associates for telling me about What Brand Are You. It strikes me that lots of companies waste money on
Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
We live in a world of too much marketing and too much branding. People’s faith in advertising has fallen to new lows as we simply
So the Abbey National is rebranding itself this morning. As I write this entry, they are revealing their new look, their shortened name (just “Abbey”)
Great post by TIm Kastelle: Don’t Hire Experience, Hire Learners. He includes this quote from the book ReWork: There’s surprisingly little difference between a candidate with six months of experience
My friend Julian Burton tweeted a link to this animation which appears to be an unintentionally ironic commentary on the cliches of human resources.
I’ve just spent two days on a training course with some colleagues I’ll be working with this autumn. It was held at the excellent Wallacespace in Central London. Training is
I am huge believer that little details can make bid differences and I’m enjoying Richard Wiseman’s little book, 59 Seconds for its curation of some. Here’s one good one: In
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