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Brands

Are You REALLY Worth It?

by JC Hewitt September 2, 2010

Why should people pay you for a night of thrills when they can get the same thrills long term? How marketing makes all the difference in tough times.

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Attention is Expensive: Part III

by JC Hewitt August 25, 2010

In the previous two posts in this series, I discussed the importance of online advertising and explained the importance of developing and harvesting intent.

The two components of advertising that I want to focus on are impact and breadth. Impact is broadly defined as how much of an effect the advertisement has on consumer behavior. Breadth [...]

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The Power of Endurance

by Mark Brimm August 16, 2010

Whatever we do, one thing seems to trump all other virtues, in marketing as in other areas of life: endurance. Be it career-building, fighting for a cause that matters to you, or building lasting brand equity, if what you do can be sustained because it has levels and compartments left to be explored, then it [...]

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Attention is Expensive – Part I

by JC Hewitt August 11, 2010

Blogging for your business is foundational to any online marketing effort.

But it’s not enough to drive the kind of broad-based, continual attention that’s necessary to drive business in a predictable fashion.

The web enables all businesses to run their own media channels. It’s possible for a single blog post to spread farther than a New York [...]

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Branding Refuses to Die

by JC Hewitt August 4, 2010

There was once a fad belief among internet enthusiasts that new media would destroy branding.

The argument centered on the belief that advertisers would find it more challenging to saturate the market with a more distributed media environment, and therefore struggle to implant narratives into the general consciousness.

That has failed to occur, and probably never will. [...]

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Stunt Vs. Vision

by Mark Brimm August 2, 2010
Little Caesar

Everyone has a trick. That correlates to views in social media often enough. Awesome. But where does it lead after the trick is done?

Some companies make a stunt into their vision by riding a commercial gimmick into the sunset and grabbing all the business they can along the way. Little Caesar’s tried that in the [...]

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Is Your Brand Ready for Trouble?

by Mark Brimm June 14, 2010
BP Fail Whale

Brands matter, even in the case of Goliath-sized companies, like BP. Why? Because a bad reputation makes stocks plummet, as BP’s own stock has begun to do in response to the Oil Spill debacle. That means lost profits for stock holders, which means fewer people actually wanting to hold your stock, which means eventually you can’t sell the [...]

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What Makes a Company Valuable?

by JC Hewitt June 9, 2010
Startups & Brand Equity Likened to Marathon Readiness

Many companies consider that most of their strength comes from their brand. But traditional branding has come under criticism. It used to be possible to label a commodity like potato chips with a brand name strengthened by television, print, and radio advertising and mark up the products considerably. Generating that brand strength is no longer as easy as it used to be. And it’s impossible to measure.

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Static Vs. Social Brands

by Mark Brimm June 7, 2010

Many corporations and organizations still don’t really get social media, perhaps because they are operating in a former mode that denies social media realities. Many organizations, on the other hand, are using new media to connect in a with the public in a positive manner. Mostly, however, this doesn’t go beyond having a profile on [...]

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