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Motivating Positive Word of Mouth

June 16th, 2009 No Comments

Driving long-term, positive talk requires innovating around what customers love about your brand and exceeding their expectations.

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Back to Basics: Drivers of Choice and Drivers of Differentiation

June 16th, 2009 No Comments

It’s not enough just to be different; you must be different in ways that matter. Your drivers of differentiation should layer onto your category drivers of choice.

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Changing Your Environment to Enhance Your Creativity

June 15th, 2009 1 Comment

If you’re like most people, chances are two things are true: 1) You don’t spend the most time in your most creative space, and 2) Your most creative space isn’t your workspace.

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Enhancing Creativity Through Reading

June 9th, 2009 3 Comments

Through this two-step, process, you’ll be actively training your mind to become better at associating ideas, and also building a stronger network of interdisciplinary ideas in your mind.

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Why Neuromarketing Doesn’t Have All The Answers

June 1st, 2009 1 Comment

Neuromarketing helps downstream as a final test, but real power comes from knowing where to start upstream. And, it saves time and money, too.

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Cultivating Customer Loyalty Through Brand Communities

May 27th, 2009 No Comments

A key in driving brand loyalty (which leads to profitability) is the formation of communities around the ideals held in common by the brand and its customers.

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Drucker, Apple, Palm, and The Purpose and Functions of Business

May 22nd, 2009 No Comments

Next time you make a product or design a new marketing strategy, instead of trying to outdo the main competition look to what you do best and what your best customers love about you and innovate from there.

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The Importance of Consistency in Branding

May 22nd, 2009 No Comments

Too often companies change the heart of their marketing campaigns in an effort to inject newness into their branding strategies in hopes of capturing attention. The latest neuroscience research reveals why changing the core of your messaging can be detrimental to your brand.

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Top Five Books About Branding That Aren’t About Branding

May 20th, 2009 3 Comments

The modern marketer is quickly realizing the decades old business wisdom is not and never really has been enough to truly understand the customer and build an effective brand. Applying insights from different disciplines is becoming a key to modern marketing.  With that in mind, I’d thought I’d offer my top five non-business books that [...]

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The Commoditization of Starbucks

May 19th, 2009 2 Comments

Starbucks has dug itself a pretty deep hole. The only way out is to stop focusing on tactic after tactic in hopes that one will catch on and instead focus on reconnecting with the soul of their business and their customers’ human needs.

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