Sunday, April 15th, 2018
Online marketing can be very confusing. In part, because cause and effect impact measures are challenging to find (with the noted exception of online sales). But, there are four principles you can use to help guide your decisions in the online communication space.
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
“Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.” Denis Waitley I have noticed that there has been a lot of discussion on the definition of brand and branding lately in the LinkedIn Groups I frequent. In part, I am not surprised. The advent of tools to help communicate directly with people […]
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
A brand is a promise. It sets an expectation of an experience. It answers the question – What’s in it for me? To be effective, the promise must be relevant, competitive and authentic. I’m often asked about how you determine what the right promise is. After all, a product, company or community can promise many […]
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Monday, February 20th, 2012
Situation You contract with a Place Branding Agency to help you determine the best way to position your community with CEOs so you can attract more capital investment opportunities. They recommend you invest in qualitative concept research and develop three positioning statements to evaluate. One concept positions your community as having a highly skilled labor […]
Monday, February 6th, 2012
I recently had breakfast with my former Procter & Gamble business unit President, and now good friend. He challenged me to author a piece that explained what great place branding looks like. I decided to take his counsel as motivation for writing this post on the importance of having a clearly written brand promise to […]
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