In Are you lovin’ it? Tom Asacker has a great post elaborating on David Ogilvy’s comment that “Agencies waste countless hours concocting slogans of incredible fatuity.”
For every vaguely memorable slogan there are countless utterly forgettable ones. Tom lists ones McDonalds have used over the years as evidence, and also suggests this list of company slogans. Barely a spark of memorability among them.
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
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!
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
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”)
James and I are running our second Open Sauce Surgery on the morning of July 5th. It’s a an opportunity to generate ideas for collaborative marketing and is suited to
As well as More Space I’m a participant in Jon Strande’s 100 Bloggers. 25 of us write a couple of pages for a book, then invite a friend to do
… but the truth about love is perhaps more exciting and liberating. Ok at first sight the description of love as “micro-moment of positivity resonance.” is not that appealing. But
Maria Popova spots this great comment from John Steinbeck. If there is a magic in story writing and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to
