Archived entries for marketing

The future of online branding

What do you see for the future of online branding? This weekend I attended various events at Phoenix Design Week. The whole conference was promising, exciting, and energizing, but something in particular got me thinking. Darren Wilson’s “Death to Traditional” presentation touched upon ways to, you guessed it, kill traditional marketing/branding, and keep things fresh [...]

Brand Health

Did you see the latest earnings report for Starbucks? Well, their earnings rose from 16 cents a share to 24 cents and beat Wall Street expectations. Look, it does not take a branding connoisseur to recognize that a rise in earnings is not typically related to a singular event.

To Slash or Not to Slash ?

Notice all the price cutting and special offers during our economic tsunami?  Seems that many brands decided that in order to increase brand profitability, they needed to slash prices.  Well, a recent study with marketing professionals noted that this price-slash practice is having a negative impact on profits. Even with deep discount, merchants are experiencing [...]

Has the economic downturn affected the strongest brands?

Once brand value has been established, it benefits the brand long term and value doesn’t easily collapse in a tight economy.

Marketing Insights from Cows

So what wouldn’t you give as marketers to have a brand as unique as an “Oreo cow”? But more importantly, what would you do to ensure its success in the market? We know that being unique is not enough to sustain the life of a brand in our ever changing world…



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