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Brand Building During COVID-19

Tuesday, January 19th, 2021

How to think about branding in a pandemic.

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Doing Place Branding Effectively

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

Remember It Is A Process. It Is Going To Take Time.  But You Will Make It As Long As You Do Not Give Up. Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash Developing Effective Concept Statements To Guide Communication Strategy A Concept captures a promise that resolves an unmet need or creates desire for an unrecognized need.  […]

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Six Common Logic Mistakes In Marketing Plans

Thursday, November 1st, 2018

An Error Doesn’t Become a Mistake Until You Refuse To correct It quote attributed to Orlando Aloysius Battista Photo by Alvaro Reyes on Unsplash For many Brand Managers, this is the time when Management wants to review your Marketing Plan for the upcoming year and make a decision on your brand budget. Writing a Marketing […]

Community Branding Explained

Saturday, June 9th, 2018

Often, half the challenge of master a subject is to have a common understanding of the lexicon. In economic development, there appears to be a significant degree of confusion around and misrepresentation of what a brand is and what branding entails. For the purposes of this book, the following definitions apply. Brand A brand is […]

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Campaign Deployment Advice

Wednesday, April 11th, 2018

Creative without strategy is called art.  Creative with strategy is called advertising. attributed to: Jef I. Richards In my experience, campaign deployment can be exciting or overwhelming depending on how you approach the task. Key Watch Outs Cost/Timing Consistency Rework Quick versus Right Let me take each of these watch outs individually. Cost/Timing This watch […]

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Impressions of China

Thursday, June 7th, 2012

Strengthening Brand America – Discussion of China as a business location.

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Selling, Marketing and Branding Defined

Monday, April 30th, 2012

When I started exploring place branding, it quickly became evident that the concepts of selling, marketing and branding were often confused and used interchangeably. As a consequence, many communities experienced failed attempts at “branding” when the better solution may have been to focus on developing a more effective selling effort. When I was working at […]

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Successfully Managing The Place Branding Exercise

Sunday, February 26th, 2012

Defining your community’s relevant, competitive and authentic brand promise is hard work. It is a combination of science and art. You have to have a solid process, you have to do the research, and it is a huge help to have a third-party interpret the data without a preexisting bias. Too often, communities decide to […]

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What’s The Latest On Social Media?

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Every once in awhile, I jump on Google and try to catch up with the most current perspective on various topics I am tracking. Social media use in economic development is one of those topics. You can read my past posts on this subject by clicking HERE. This post provides you a number of select […]

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Principle Based Decision-Making

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

People Do Not Realize The Importance Of Decisions Until They Make The Wrong One. One of the more important models I have been exposed to is the concept of proactively applying principles to guide decision-making, particularly your most important decisions. From an execution perspective, it is often not as easy as it sounds. But the […]

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