About Frank Schab & Unconventional Branding

Frank Schab

Website http://www.linkedin.com/in/frankschab

A brand builder who takes an unconventional approach to branding, Frank has helped dozens of clients optimize the value of their brands through insightful analysis and effective strategy. Frank served as a Managing Partner at Interbrand New York and VP of Global Brand Research at Opinion Research Corporation before co-founding Six Degrees. He has also held positions in General Motors and Pfizer. Frank has worked on the branding of products, services, companies and even a sovereign nation. His experience includes domestic, international, and global brand assignments such as identity, positioning, architecture, and brand cascading. Frank has a Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University and has conducted marketing and branding work in well over a dozen countries on four continents.

Archived entries for Frank Schab

Marketing Luxury Brands: Appealing to the Luxury Cognoscenti

Luxury brands are becoming affordable to an increasingly large group of people, as the economies of countries like China and Russia create many more wealthy and affluent people. Even in the USA, the number of millionaires has increased dramatically in recent years. What does this influx of nouveau riche do to the traditional luxury market? …

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Death of a Brand

As recently as a few months ago, if you had introduced yourself as being from Lehman Brothers, you would have been wrapped in the mantle of one of the most storied financial brands in the world. The brand’s halo would have automatically bestowed upon you attributes of investment savvy, Wall Street pedigree and no shortage …

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The Buzz on Social Marketing

I recently asked my linkedIn connections to prognosticate about the future of social marketing. Most of those who responded defined “social marketing” in terms of the act of using a social network (e.g., like facebook) to persuade others, rather than the more traditional definition of seeking to affect social change for the greater good. Interestingly, …

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How to tell if your brand’s health is slipping

Brands live in a dynamic, ever-changing environment. Many variables affect the well-being of a brand, including trends, economic cycles, new competitors, changing tastes, lack of innovation, just to mention a few. Brand health needs to be monitored and maintained. But how can you tell whether your brand is deteriorating? A 2007 survey of brand marketers …

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Recession: A perfect time to build your brand?

The vast herd of investors knows they should buy low and sell high, but end up doing the opposite: putting their money in stocks or funds that are already doing well and then delaying when they get out of a falling investment because of the wishful thinking that “it will go up again”. Sophisticated investors, …

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Non-traditional market research

Companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on traditional market research in which respondents are asked direct questions about what they like/dislike and why they bought what they bought. Yet, 90% of new product launches fail and studies show that despite increasing marketing spend, nearly every product category is getting more and more …

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