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 of those empty oxymorons beloved of financial institutions who have nothing interesting, different or persuasive to offer customers but need to show their marketing muscle to keep up with the other banks.
Given that in March HSBC announced a clean profit of
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”)
Viv has written about rethinking facilitation training and I agree with her. That’s not unconnected with having done some very interesting work with her this year and planning some more
Chris Corrigan spotted this interesting thought from Jack/Zen: What’s interesting is that anonymous monetary currency doesn’t build community. It only as Jean suggests, “outsources connections.” When I trade my time
Early in his TED talk Salman Khan makes a great point. He is describing the video he made to teach his cousins calculus. They give him the feedback that it’s
The new logo for the 2012 Olympics has been launched accompanied by the customary list of contrived quotes about what it allegedly conveys to people. These always sound as daft
