Brands represent a huge amount of asset creation from advertising and other brand building investments and marketers need to find a way to make the connection or they will continue to make the wrong marketing investments.
Nov
6
Baseball has amazing assets to on which to rebuild its brand. In the movie City Slickers, around the campfire one the friends said, “When my father and I had nothing else to talk about, there was always baseball” True dat.
Oct
19
Make people curious about your brand
In: branding
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In a world of the long-tail of choices that are sometimes not very functionally different, use curiosity as a way of getting people to think about your brand. Being interesting might be a new way of being better.
Sep
1
Trust is the easier part of the branding equation. The harder part of branding-building is creating desire for YOUR brand. Brands are delisted by retailers not because of lack of trust but when they are viewed as redundant.
Aug
21
When are brand extensions a good idea?
In: advertising, brand extensions, branding, innovation, research, retail, shopper marketing
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Marketers want to use brand extension strategies as much as possible today because it is a more affordable way to introduce products but the key is having enough rocket fuel, i.e. brand equity, to get the rocket (i.e. brand extension) off the ground.