brand as business bit: My latest Brand New Perspectives column in QSR Magazine answers a QSR operator’s question about keeping customers coming back. The piece outlines my thoughts on increasing purchase frequency — an objective of practically every marketer — I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the effectiveness of a heart-felt ‘thank you.’ [...]
Hi folks! Trying a new feature this year — a monthly round-up of my published content. It’s a mental buffet of ideas that may seem schizophrenic at times (I do work on fast food restaurants as well as fitness brands, after all!), but it’s all in the service of helping companies understand and apply the [...]
New York Times’ Stephanie Clifford asked me for reactions to J. C. Penney’s recent presentation about the vision and path forward for the venerable chain.
(Here’s the latest “brand experience brief” — insights from my audits of new and interesting retail and restaurant concepts.) Check out this video featuring photos and my notes on Tin Shed, Patagonia‘s new retail concept — and then check out my interview with head of retail marketing at Patagonia, Vickie Achee, which I posted a couple [...]
Today’s interview takes a peek behind the curtain at an extraordinary company, Patagonia. Patagonia is known worldwide as an outdoor clothing and gear brand, but I wanted to better understand the company’s retail strategy. Who better to ask than the head of marketing for the North America Retail Division at Patagonia, Vickie Achee. A twenty-plus [...]
brand as business bit: Phil Rosenthal‘s analysis of Eastman Kodak’s failure in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune is quite insightful — particularly in its juxtaposition of Kodak and R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., the commercial printing company that’s been shedding its legacy and reinventing itself. Most telling is the quote from Donnelley’s CEO and President Thomas [...]
DLYohn 12 Truths to Guide Retailing in 2012 Check out the key points about success in retail from speakers at last week’s NRF’s Retail BIG Show in 2012. View more presentations from Denise Lee Yohn, Inc.
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) can be an intoxicating experience. Drinking in all the devices on the show floor, it’s easy to be dazzled by cool features, brilliant designs, and products you never even dreamed of. Speakers captivate your imagination as they describe bold visions and demo the newest products. But amid all the hype, [...]
brand as business bit: I just taught “Why Small Businesses Need Brands and How to Build Them,” a session in Marketing Profs University course on Marketing Your Small Business. I talked about how brands don’t only create value for large companies — they’re also important to small businesses. A couple of reasons: Small businesses need to [...]
Check out my recap of the technologies at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in the next wave in consumer electronics: digital health and fitness.
brand as business bit: At CES last week, I couldn’t help but feel a little like I was in Apple’s 1984 commercial. I could only take comfort in knowing that adoption of wearing glasses to watch TV will never cross the chasm into the mainstream — they’re impractical, they’re too invasive, and they detract from [...]
brand as business bit: Next week I’m teaching a webinar, Why Small Business Needs Brands and How to Build Them, as part of a Marketing Profs University course on Marketing Your Small Business. Here’s a sneak preview: One of the topics I will cover is how to differentiate — and among the approaches I will [...]
brand as business bit: Stephen Denny and I have just done a blog-exchange on retail and small business. Check out his post on Killing Retail Giants, and mine on new retail opportunities. Both pieces speak to the unique advantage small businesses have in winning at retail, in part because they are more likely to make [...]
(The following is the first in a two-part blog-exchange I’m doing with Stephen Denny, author of Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry. Because Steve and I are among those teaching the upcoming Marketing Profs University course, Marketing Your Small Business, we decided to address retailers’ issues and opportunities in these [...]
brand as business bit: Businessweek’s piece on Lego‘s attempts to crack the girl code describes how the company used anthropological research methods to understand its users: “You could say a worn-out sneaker saved Lego. ‘We asked an 11-year-old German boy, ‘what is your favorite possession?’ And he pointed to his shoes. But it wasn’t the [...]
