Adrian is continuing a stream of interesting posts at 173drurylane.com. I need to start writing some more stuff there too. I like the way our little experiment is going… I wonder if anyone at Sainsbury’s has noticed yet?
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
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 AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
Chris Anderson highlights Yahoo’s new Creative Commons Search. Excellent idea.
Ushahidi – Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley – How to Track a Crisis – NYTimes.com (tags: crowdsourcing culture socialmedia technology) Google Public Policy Blog: Brookings: Cloud computing can save govt
Nancy White observes that We learn (when we listen) when we talk. I suspect we all know this is true but we ignore it in a lot of our processes.
Following on from my post yesterday, I found this item in today’s Private Eye. HSBC’s current ad campaign continues its theme of “The World’s Local Bank.” But it’s just another
