… says Howard Mann in his riff on Guy Kawasaki’s post on The Art of Branding.
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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BlogBridge
I’ve been using BlogBridge as my default aggregator for several weeks now. They’ve issued new versions pretty frequently and I’ve appreciated the little improvements with each one. The latest (2.5)
20 October 2005
The brain
Also from Chris Corrigan quoting a friend quoting Emo Phillips: I used to think the brain was the most wonderful organ in the body. Then I realized who was telling
30 August 2005
Open Source catfights
James points to the Economist’s take on Open Source business: Open, but not as usual. It’s an interesting piece, arguing New business models are being built around commercialising open-source wares,
24 March 2006
Inequality
I was startled and glad, to read that leading Tory thinker Dave Willetts thinks this: The evidence has become stronger and stronger that inequality matters. That gradual accretion of the
14 March 2009
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