It’s easy to pick a brand color, right? Not as easy as you think. Depending on your industry, the message and focus of your brand everything can change. The color look and feel not only establishes what you are but who you are. This is why trade dress is so important. It’ happened several times [...]

When Netflix just announce a 60% increase in rates they drove shock waves through thousands of loyal customers of absolutely loved Netflix. Is say loved because many of the comments, blog entries and Tweets are saying how Netflix is screwing over their loyal customer base.

Cisco, like many technology companies, thinks only linearly. What they do is in the context of their technological hold in the market, but the Flip does not fit this model

Large companies and even mid size to smaller can now get tons of data on you. How you shop, what you buy, what your age group does, what your neighborhood does – but do they really get you?

Linking your cause with the Nabisco brand can’t possibly hurt. There is a new cause marketing campaign launched recently with boxes of Triscuits, the wheat crackers in the snack isle of your grocery store.

You can have a GroupOn activity that happens an hour from now and done by the end of the day targeting a self-selected group of customers who are actually interested in your offers. This is the maximum use of incentives to the right motivated customers. It’s just another way to create opportunity in the marketplace– a reason for customers to buy now.

This focus on the customer built incredible loyalty and connection. They educated every customer, they increased their level of awareness and in the end they became the preferred choice in the category.

If you’re like me most of your banking is done online these days. I go the accounts area, pay bills, move money around and occasionally check out other services, all with no person involved. I then deposit checks at nonhuman ATM machines. I usually only interact when I need something fixed or just plain don’t [...]

This was the time when retail was immediate and visual as you passed one store front after another. Seeing if you could get pulled into the store by what’s in the window.

Rule 1. in building brands is evolve value and keep building on what you have. Most companies that have dumped an old name for a new one to try to “reinvent” themselves have run head on into customer confusion.