I posted the other day about some entertaining post-modern marketing happening to Burger King. All good fun.
This video looks at BK through another lens. It compares the compensation culture at BK with that at its part-owners Goldman Sachs. A good reminder of the shadow side of brands.
Hat tip: Daily Kos.
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”)
Lots of folks are talking about Blog Pulse Profiles. They weren’t working yesterday but they are this morning. Very clever… and yet another performance measure to distract myself with!
Kathy Sierra stands up for the power of one. I’m not dissing teams–our books are all collaborative efforts and far better because of it. And we consider ourselves to be
Piers Fawkes interviewed James Cherkoff and me for IF. James and I are doing lots of interesting things together these days.
This story came to me via Sue Glasser. An ecologist studying flamingos on Kenya
