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january brand as business buffet

by denise lee yohn on January 31, 2012 · 0 Comments · in brand as business buffet

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 [...]

12 truths to guide retailing in 2012

by denise lee yohn on January 21, 2012 · 0 Comments · in business, innovation, retail

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.

differentiation through specialization

by denise lee yohn on January 12, 2012 · 0 Comments · in brand perceptions, business, marketing

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 [...]

lessons from lady gaga

by denise lee yohn on September 6, 2011 · 1 Comments · in brand communication, brand identity, brand perceptions, marketing

In a recent post, I described a meeting I led for one of my clients that needed to engage its senior leadership with its brand. And I mentioned that I had started the meeting with a cheeky “What Can Brands Learn from Lady Gaga?” video. Although I can’t show the video here, I did want [...]

differentiate your way to success

by denise lee yohn on July 20, 2011 · 1 Comments · in brand perceptions, business, marketing

“Differentiation is really the best way for all businesses to address consumers’ new value mindset.” That is the key point of the article the folks at Franchise Update Media Group asked me to write.  Decrease Your Deal-Dependency with Differentiation is part of their latest newsletter (subscribe here). I’ve heard from so many business leaders who [...]

say cheese

by denise lee yohn on June 21, 2011 · 0 Comments · in brand communication, brand perceptions, innovation, marketing

What do cameras and sandwiches have in common? A lot, Jonathan Kaplan hopes. The creator of Flip Video, the super-simple camcorder device that provided a lot of the initial fuel behind YouTube’s early growth, has gotten a lot of press lately about his latest aspiration: The Melt, a nationwide chain of restaurants offering gourmet variations [...]

david aaker on brand relevance

by denise lee yohn on June 14, 2011 · 0 Comments · in brand extension, brand perceptions, innovation

David Aaker, author, brand guru, Vice Chairman of the brand consulting firm Prophet, and professor emeritus at Berkeley’s business school, joins me for a provocative interview on the state of brands today. Providing color and context for his latest book, Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant, Dave explains: why the only way for brands to win is to [...]

competitive brand positioning

by denise lee yohn on April 27, 2011 · 2 Comments · in brand perceptions, brand tools, business

At last week’s MINDBODY University, I had the opportunity to teach business leaders how to increase their competitive advantage. Although the seminar was attended by business owners in the health, fitness, and wellness industries, the principles we covered are instructive to most all businesspeople and so I thought I’d share them here. The core of [...]

brand platforms are like political ones

by denise lee yohn on May 12, 2010 · 1 Comments · in brand communication, brand delivery, brand identity, brand tools

Earlier this week I posted some key takeaways from the keynote speakers and panelists at the Southern California Business Growth Conference.  As a panelist on the marketing track, one of the things I said during the “Brand Implementation & Impact: Bring your Brand to Market” session seemed to spark some interest of its own – [...]

when differentiation isn’t the answer

by denise lee yohn on April 27, 2010 · 1 Comments · in brand communication, business, innovation, marketing, retail

“Differentiate or die” is probably a familiar mantra to all; and there’s a well-established albeit less pithy corollary – don’t sell the category, sell your brand.  After all, given the overcrowded nature of most categories, the hope of success for most brands rests on their ability to stand out from their numerous competitors.  And promoting [...]

how to differentiate

by denise lee yohn on January 7, 2010 · 0 Comments · in brand perceptions, brand tools, marketing

While you are reading this, I’m attending the Consumer Electronics Show.  I’ll be meeting with clients and prospects, attending educational sessions, and walking the show floor — the last activity is one that I always find both exciting and frustrating.  Exciting because there always so many new and cool gadgets and technologies to check out; [...]

what the hottest brands have in common

by denise lee yohn on December 10, 2009 · 0 Comments · in best brands lists, brand perceptions, innovation, marketing

Recently Ad Age published a list of what it considered to be “America’s Hottest Brands.”   The list featured 40 brands that are “setting the pace for innovation — and getting results – right now.”  Although their selection criteria wasn’t clear and I can’t say I agree with all of the choices, I did find some [...]

there’s a brand strategy for that

by denise lee yohn on December 7, 2009 · 4 Comments · in brand perceptions, innovation, marketing

Yesterday’s New York Times’ article, Apple’s Game Changer, Downloading Now, was a fascinating read.  I’m not knowledgeable enough about the technology behind mobile apps to evaluate the story as a representation of the programming and development challenges and opportunities of all the different companies.  But I found it a provocative report on the different brands’ [...]

so you want your own website

by denise lee yohn on November 9, 2009 · 0 Comments · in brand delivery, brand perceptions, brand touchpoints, retail

Recently several manufacturers have announced that they are initiating an e-commerce business.   I’m not sure of the motivations behind these moves but it seems to be a growing trend. Although many manufacturers have been offering direct sales for many years through their own e-commerce sites, it seems we’re seeing a new surge of interest in [...]

i learned more than i taught

by denise lee yohn on July 27, 2009 · 2 Comments · in brand perceptions, marketing

Last week I had the honor of guest-leading a session at the University of California-San Diego. Although the class was about news-writing, the instructor wanted to spend a day focused on brands and so she asked me to do a brief intro to brands and then lead the group in a brand management exercise.  It [...]