Branding: Avoiding Bad Neighborhoods

Are you placing your brand in a "bad neighborhood?" The other day, I was contacted by a BBC reporter, Daniel Nasaw, working on a story about highway naming. At first I thought he had contacted the wrong person, but it turned out there…

Study: TV Branding Beats Online

Television ads are far more potent than online ads for viewer engagement and brand resonance, according to a new study by Fox Broadcasting and neuromarketing firm Innerscope Research. According to information released by Innerscope,…

Love Branding

Review - Love Branding: How to make people fall in love with your brand by Carolin Dahlman Carolin Dahlman has two professions: branding expert and "love coach." While these two callings seem unrelated at first glance, Dahlman thinks…

No-Attention Branding

Advertisers strive to maximize attention and engagement. They want people to remember seeing their ads. They want maximum brand recall. But it's possible to have marketing impact without ANY of those things.

College Branding, Personal Branding

Although the concept of personal branding was likely launched by Tom Peters' excellent 1997 article, The Brand Called You, the idea that others perceive you as an amalgam of personal characteristics, experience, and qualities no doubt…

Sonic Branding

What does your brand sound like? If you have no clue, you are missing an important part of an overall sensory branding effort. One firm that knows what its signature sounds are is Audi, which has gone to considerable effort to establish a…

Impossible Branding?

It looks like Australian politicians have taken up reading neuromarketing books. In the ever-escalating war between regulators and tobacco firms, the most aggressive step yet has been proposed Down Under: un-branding cigarette…