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You Will Live Forever
You started with Friendster, MySpace and Facebook. You’ve Fickr’d, Flixster’d, Twitter’d, Tag’d and Yelp’d. You’ve StumbledUpon Orkut, then hung out in the Qzone, the MetaCafe and the BlackPlanet. You’ve Mixx’d it with Baboo, LinkedIn with Netlog, Hi5’d with Habbo, Bebo’d with Ning and Reddit on Vimeo. You’ve Digg’d, Mash’d, Scrib’d, Fark’d, Zynga’d and it has [...]
Read MoreMinutia Matters
Brands are increasingly depending on data, metrics and analytics to drive branding decisions. To that end, they want to know all that they can about their customers – their habits and behaviors, likes and dislikes, attitudes and associations. They are obsessed with digging for data to better understand motivations, perceptions and preference and now through [...]
Read MoreSeriously Green
It’s about time, but people are finally seeing green. Not the green-washing of the last few years, where slapping a leaf logo or some vague environmental sensitivity tagline on your product seemed to be enough. No, this appears to be the real thing. And although the standards for clarifying what makes something officially green are [...]
Read MoreEvangelism has a Price
Saying great brands are built by great employees is nothing new. Almost everyone agrees (there are still a few Luddites) that brands are built from the inside-out. A knowledgeable and dedicated workforce that understands, internalizes and exudes the company’s brand values is an asset most CEOs would kill for. Whether it’s the quality of the [...]
Read MoreWhose Brand is it Anyway?
A new communications language is redefining the traditional practices of brand building and brand management. The explosion of social media has caused a significant shift – from a one-to-many branding strategy to a many-to-many branding experience – changing the branding rules for many businesses. Today, the control of a brand is no longer just in [...]
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