Time Is The New Battleground For Brands
The one thing we marketers want more than anything else is people’s time. We have all kinds of metrics to track it. Indeed, it’s the thing we track most, more so than spending and usage. ...
Why Brand Fandom Is Replacing Traditional Marketing
You are likely focused on the next round of innovations in the pipeline and how you will elevate and communicate the attributes and features of these new products at launch. Familiar territory for the vast ...
Why Brand Strategy And Business Strategy Must Be One Strategy
The most consequential brand decisions are often made before anyone calls them brand decisions. Leadership chooses markets, customers, products, pricing, acquisitions, distribution, and growth priorities. Marketing is then asked to develop a brand strategy around ...
Nissan’s Future Depends On Remembering Its Brand Promise
The adage that history repeats itself is no more apparent than the current state of affairs at Nissan North America. The Wall Street Journal’s interview with Christian Meunier, head of Nissan NA, is so frighteningly ...
Why Great Products Fail Without Market Engineering
Each year, research firms such as CB Insights analyze why both startups and new products from mature companies fail. On average, about 80 percent of VC-backed startups fail (and those are the best of the startup ...
Why Brand Strategy Needs A Simulator Now
Most mid-market leaders are not short on ideas. They are short on confidence. They are being asked to move faster with less certainty, make bigger bets with less room for error, and separate useful AI-enabled ...
How Under Armour Forgot The First Rule Of Brand Strategy
Never confuse the customer. Once, at an advertising agency meeting with our IHG client, one of the agencies admitted that their commercials for Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express were confusing. The stated benefits for ...
Harley-Davidson’s Brand Problem Is Bigger Than Its Bikes
Financial geniuses on Wall Street appear to be happy that there is new leadership at Harley-Davidson, Artie Starrs as CEO. As with the appointment of the previous CEO, Jochen Zeitz, analysts and those with significant ...
When Honoring A Brand’s Past Means Changing Its Future
For more than twenty years, The Blake Project carried the same identity into the world. It was there when we opened our doors in 2003. It appeared on our first proposals, our first client deliverables, ...
When Honoring A Brand’s Past Means Changing Its Future
For more than twenty years, The Blake Project carried the same identity into the world. It was there when we opened our doors in 2003. It appeared on our first proposals, our first client deliverables, ...