When Less is More –

Brand Identity and Marketing Work Best When They Are Visual And Simple. What do you remember? It’s always those brand identities connected with a highly visual campaign that conveys a simple, emotional, and evocative connection. Whether B2C or B2B customers. The visual image associated with the brand creates a powerful connection. It’s how humans work.…

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Building Traction

The value of engagement is in staying connected. No, traction is not the treads on your tires or the treads on the bottom of your hiking boots. Although it is about building a strong connection with your customers through your brand. In the start-up, world traction means the success you’ve seen so far or the proof you…

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Endless Possibilities…

In Today’s World, Marketing isn’t About Doing Everything. Marketers continue to be hyper-focused on customer-centric marketing but it must be done in a more nuanced, tactical fashion that reflects lifestyle-focused behaviors and networks in this new world. The pandemic threw the previously predictable ways of doing things into new modes of acting and thinking. This…

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The New Workplace – Hybrid Everything

Where will people work and live? The big question post-pandemic, if there is really a post-pandemic, is where people will work and live? Ongoing discussions on workers returning to the office continue while occupancy rates for office space in downtown Manhattan, the Chicago Loop, and Downtown SF remain well below pre-pandemic levels. Where’s this all…

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Talking to People

Why Human-Centered Marketing and Branding Connects.There’s a new way to view marketing and branding. It’s not just about products and cool tech solutions but communicating and connecting with individuals…

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Don’t Monkey Around with Brand Perceptions

Walmart Pulls Coconut Milk Amid Monkey Labor Allegations. Chained monkeys were trained to quickly climb palms and pick the coconuts for Thai coconut milk brands. Although they were rewarded with food for their labor, animal rights organizations got involved and have been calling this “monkey slave labor”.  In 2019, PETA investigators in Asia surfaced several…

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Invading Hordes

Changes that come suddenly, that are overwhelming and life-changing, can destroy a world of familiarity and predictability but innovation often rises from this destruction to form new business models. When the unexpected visitors arrive. In 793 at Lindisfarne, in northern England, a small monastery of monks going about their monkish business is attacked in the…

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More than Digital: Connecting with People

It’s Time to Transform Marketing into People Connecting. How and when you connect with existing and potential customers is not about just sending constant emails out. Why inundate people with your content? It’s common for brands, as it is for people, to want to talk about themselves. We’ve all had interesting and fascinating people in…

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One Brand, One Experience

The 7 essentials of shaping a brand across all the customer touchpoints. How do you shape a campaign and really focus on the right audience for your brand? In developing a brand strategy and building this into real things that customers and partners see, it’s essential to unify what your brand says and looks likes,…

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