Harry Joiner tells this joke
“A guy dies and goes to heaven. At the Pearly Gates Saint Peter says: ‘Although you qualify for heaven, I
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”)
Earl Mardle picks up on my post about MakeUpAlley and talks about SewingPatternReview and the success of Trade Me These people come here to buy and sell stuff where do
Jennifer Rice responds to my blog on Employee Engagement, sparking further thoughts about the purpose of marketing – I suggest it needs to break out of trap of focusing only on customers.
Oli has a good post about seeing Santacon the other day. Through the window of the Soho Pizzeria I spied them. Hundreds upon hundreds of crimson-suited Santas wending their way
Thanks to The Nub and Curt Rosengren for pointing me this report by Roffey Park: Research links the issue of ‘meaning’ at work to employee motivation According to the research
