John Moore (the US one) says What Al Ries doesn’t get about marketing
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Waterfalls and chaos
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.
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Unhurried marketing
I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more
Passion branding
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.
Medinge Moments
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
The volatile chemistry of trust
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!
Customer-centricity: is it the answer?
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?
What brand are you?
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
Just Undo It?
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
Putting humanity into branding
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
New Abbey
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”)
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Alienation or connection?
Thanks to Tony Goodson for spotting this in The Observer: When one of Skinner’s rats pressed a lever, it was given a food pellet. By experiment Skinner then established that
7 January 2007
Action?
I liked this Clint Eastwood anecdote from Shawn Callahan. As an actor Clint found a director’s call to ‘Action’ off putting. He was immediately reminded that he was an actor,
17 February 2010
Standing around
What is it about American leaders that they like to have crowds of poker-faced people standing behind them when they’re giving speeches? From this side of the Atlantic it looks
7 September 2005
Innovation is at the Edges
Synchronicity or what. Dave Pollard on The Medici Effect: …most innovations occur in intersections (the ‘spaces’ where different disciplines, cultures or specialized domains of knowledge meet. Meanwhile, Evelyn Rodriguez says
24 September 2004
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