When your brand is more about the cause than the money During the 2011 Thanksgiving shopping season, outdoor gear and apparel designer Patagonia ran an ad that turned more than a few heads. In big, bold letters, the ad read, “Don’t buy this jacket.”...
A brand is the face of a company or a business. The logos, fonts, and colors used are what people will associate with your brand. Brand consistency is crucial and it needs to be distinct and consistent, meaning all things associated with it should share similar...
In their best-selling book, “Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant” and “Blue Ocean Shift,” world-renowned professors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne argued that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a...
In this digital age, marketers have more data to work with than ever before. But actually deriving meaningful insights from that data and converting those insights into action is easier said than done. Often, the problem is that, with so much data at their disposal,...
The world’s largest furniture retailer, IKEA, has a new print ad on the back of the United Arab Emirates’ Good Magazine that it calls “the sleepiest print ad ever made.” The campaign is called Sömnig, which is Swedish for “sleepy,”...
A common mistake a company can make when they begin to expand to more locations is maintaining brand consistency. You need to make sure your customers will enjoy the same experience at a new location that they have come to expect from your established stores. In...
