This Mitchell and Webb clip made me laugh and hits the nail on the head.
Hat tip: Will Humphrey
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
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
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
Good post by Chris Lawer: Overseas call centres damage the brand. Suggests that the cost savings of outsourcing are often negated by loss of customers. (And that’s not taking account
Stever Rubel (Micropersuasion) cites (Via Joi Ito) an IBM survey of Wikipedia: IBM tried to measure how quickly vandalism on Wikipedia an open source encyclopedia, was identified and corrected. They
Pat Kane points to Terry Eagleton’s scathing review of Wally Olins’ book “ On Brand” Here’s a snippet: Olins
Simon Gough tweeted: For every high-profile project there are ten better versions quietly getting on with it which strikes me as poetically true if not always literally so. I see
