On my return home after 6 weeks a mountain of mail awaited me. I was able to recycle over 75% of it without more than cursory inspection. A small but poignant reminder of the extraordinary wastefulness of marketing.
I linked to this paper on wicked problems the other day and Chris Corrigan commented “there’s a lot in that paper eh?”. Which is true.
I’m experimenting with marketing less and listening more
Passion brands bring people together based on common interests and excitements. I’m particularly interested in ones created from the bottom up, as opposed to driven by producers concerned mainly with profit.
Just back from another extraordinary gathering at Medinge where the community that has produced Beyond Branding meets each summer. I was planning to keep this
Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!
Michael Hammer’s new book, The Agenda, is about the rise of customer power. But is customer-centricity really such a good model for business and society?
Thanks to Matt Tucker at Smith Associates for telling me about What Brand Are You. It strikes me that lots of companies waste money on
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
We live in a world of too much marketing and too much branding. People’s faith in advertising has fallen to new lows as we simply
So the Abbey National is rebranding itself this morning. As I write this entry, they are revealing their new look, their shortened name (just “Abbey”)
I see that Dave Snowden is having a bit of a go at (at least some forms of) design thinking. He’s questioning whether it really is as radically different as
John Porcaro blogs about a conversation we and others have been having (eg here at Mutual Marketing) He comments: I’ve found that by settling on a new concept can sometimes
Harold Jarche » Let’s talk about work "In a networked knowledge-based economy where initiative creativity and passion trump intellect diligence and obedience; being “at” work 8 hours a day makes
I often find people talking about the importance of action in meetings and I often feel like there’s a disconnect when they do. We so easily fall into what I
