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Joe Pine — author of the several best-selling business books including the recently published Authenticity, consultant, former TED speaker, cigar-aficionado, and a really smart guy — opened a friendly debate with me […]

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have you heard about this cool site, Brand Tags?  It creates tag clouds based on associations people have of brands — click on “whatever they say a brand is” to see all of the clouds currently available […]

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Just the other day, I encountered a sign on the counter of my local Panera Bread.  It announced price increases on its bagels due to increased costs. I’m sure many businesses faced with increased margin pressures are looking at price increases […]

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In preparing to launch my blog, I researched a lot of existing ones to get a sense of what works and what doesn’t.  As a brand person, I was particularly interested in whether or not brands themselves had blogs.  I looked at a sampling […]