– the book: Brand Building in a Digital, Social and Mobile Age: Based on the top 10 most socially shared ideas on how marketing organizations can succeed in a digital age – a practical, prescriptive, and short (only 54 pages!) handbook – the brain: Joel Rubinson, President and founder of Rubinson Partners, Inc., a marketing […]
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May Brand-As-Business Buffet
If you’re looking for hot topics and insights on brands, businesses, and the people who work on them, here’s a digest of my content from the past month: brand experience: McDonald’s Metro: Lipstick on a Pig – a post about how McDonald’s new Metro concept only looks better, when it needs to actually be better […]
chisa needs it only on the ends
I may be dating myself with this headline, but I’m hoping at least a few of my readers remember those Silkience hair care commercials from the 70’s because it helps make an important point about targeting. […]
The MIT Enterprise Forum is a great program for gleaning business insights from real, live case studies. Every month a CEO of a local, up and coming, high tech company presents an executive overview of his/her business and introduces two current challenges they’re facing. Then an expert panel of advisors gives their advice and feedback […]
catering to shoppers’ need-states
New formats of existing retail brands seem to be popping up all over the place. Best Buy Mobile […]
segmentation: what’s it for?
There’s a healthy debate going on over at AdAge.com this week — a POV by Michael Fassnacht, Chief Customer Intelligence Officer at DRAFTFCB entitled “The Death of Consumer Segmentation?” […]