I was shopping with my friend in Wellington. There we found “Jamie Oliver” cookware. And “Nigella Lawson” cookware designed by one of the Conrans.
Why do people buy stuff this way?
I know part of the answer: pyschologists suggest that the human brain is poor at seeing context and as a result tends to overvalue identity-level decision-making. So we put our faith in celebs, instead of really looking at what’s there.
And I also can’t help feeling this is a mark of decadence.
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”)
The first European Conference of the Applied Improv Network is set for 10-11 March in Amsterdam using mostly Open Space. Should be good!
There’s a lot of creative energy in failure, if you don’t take it too seriously. Here are some of the out-takes from our recent video shoot. In some ways it
… that Americans don’t do irony? Well whoever it was can’t have met Tom Guarriello. Here’s Tom’s appreciation of a CNN interview with a presumably breathless Saatchi CEO Lee Daley.
Viv blogs about Peter Block’s The Answer to How is Yes. She lists some of the many “how?” questions that show up at meetings and argues that they often take
