no such thing as a free cookie

Posted on June 10th, 2010 by denise lee yohn and filed under brand communication, brand touchpoints, marketing | 0 Comments | Comments RSS

wasted potential: final remarks

This post concludes the series on brands that have wasted their potential(more…)

Posted on March 2nd, 2009 by denise lee yohn and filed under brand communication, brand delivery, brand disappointments, marketing | 0 Comments | Comments RSS

wasted potential: facebook

This is one in a series of posts about brands have failed to live up to their potential — from Jonathan Salem Baskin, author of Branding Only Works on Cattle, the “dim bulb” blog, and Ad Age/CMO Strategy column(more…)

Posted on January 26th, 2009 by denise lee yohn and filed under brand delivery, brand disappointments, marketing | 5 Comments | Comments RSS

bff with a brand

Yesterday’s New York Times article entitled, “Do You Want to ‘Friend’ a Detergent?” provides a vivid description of what’s wrong with marketing these days.  (more…)

Posted on December 15th, 2008 by denise lee yohn and filed under brand communication, marketing | 1 Comment | Comments RSS

we’re just like you — not

My critique of Lucky Jeans‘ “Lucky Few” campaign was published in this week’s Brandweek.  For those of you who didn’t see it, here goes:

For decades, fashion advertising seems to have followed a formula (more…)

Posted on October 15th, 2008 by denise lee yohn and filed under brand communication, marketing, retail | 0 Comments | Comments RSS

you say social media, I say…

Here’s another download from last week’s Digital Symposium which I spoke at and attended (see express vs. operationalize for a synopsis of my talk) — this is from Mike Moran‘s presentation.

Mike is the (more…)

Posted on September 30th, 2008 by denise lee yohn and filed under brand communication, marketing | 1 Comment | Comments RSS