Category: Branding
Hey JetBlue: Let’s Be Friends!
JetBlue, long considered the social media maven with nearly 1.5 million followers on Twitter…but what’s this? A measly 60k on Facebook??? This can’t be! So what’s the popular airline kid to do when they have no friends? Easy! Give the fans something for free! Bribe them! Free sweepstakes just for being a friend on FaceBook!
Continue reading →Is There a Tiger in Your Tank?
To talk or not to talk? That is the question, but with nothing but dodging from Florida, the blogosphere is more than happy to answer. While Tiger maintains his silence, or his roundabout explanation that fuels guilt and scandal yet explains nothing, has this mega-superceleb squeaky clean sure thing fallen…
Continue reading →Websites: A Fact of Business Life
Setting up a website is mandatory to market your wares, whether a dog walker or aerospace engineer. You need to be seen by potential clients, employers and employees. With a website, you’re telling the world you exist.
Continue reading →Knowing When to Throw in the Styrofoam Towel
Fighting public opinion can be tough, as McDonalds found out a few years back. Environmentalist groups had been pressuring McDonalds to change from using Styrofoam packaging to paper.
Continue reading →Flying the unfriendly skies of United
Looks like the “Friendly Skies of United” are a little less friendly for musicians. Country singer Dave Carroll created this video regarding his less than “friendly” experience flying United Airlines
Continue reading →Advertising Snobbery
PR is great, because it gives the consumer a sense of third party endorsement. It’s almost like the media outlet is saying, “This company is good because we have analyzed it. This is a good company. Their core values are great. I like them.”
Continue reading →Kellogg’s vs Post Cereal. Taking advantage of opportunities during an economic downturn
Recently, I read an article that appeared in the New Yorker Magazine. It discussed how two well-known cereal companies, Kellogg’s and Post, dealt with the economic depression in the late 1920s. At the time, ready-to-eat cereals were relatively new and Americans didn’t view them as a real alternative to oatmeal…
Continue reading →Web Marketing Legend, Jim Kukral, Interviews Me
Recently, I had an opportunity to be interviewed by Jim Kukral, one of the top business web experts around. Visit my blog post to hear the interview.
Continue reading →My Chat with Selling to VITO’s Tony Parinello
I had a great “fireside chat” with Tony Parinello the other day.
Continue reading →A Simple Branding Lesson
Branding starts at the top and lives at the bottom.
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