Imagine: There’s an extraterrestrial hiding behind your house. You’re a 10-year-old named Elliot. So, naturally, you decide to cajole the alien out of hiding. You place a trail of Reese’s…
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You’ve just built yourself a shiny, new website. It’s mobile responsive, search optimized and easy to navigate. Or, you recently released a brand new product online. It’s cutting edge, focus…
Every time I visit the wine country of California I am awestruck by so many things. The miles and miles of vineyards undulating over the Sonoma and Napa valleys. The…
When the average person imagines an advertising agency, thoughts of paper basketball tournaments and indoor golf courses come to mind. Bouncing ideas off each other over pizza and beer at…
Your brand is not real. That is, it does not exist as a tangible, concrete element. Your brand is not your logo. It is not your product. It is not…
Scrolling through news feeds on computer screens is how the modern age consumes its news and information. If you think about it, the internet has become something of a miracle…
How many times have you visited a company boardroom and noticed an expensively framed and lavishly displayed mission statement or core values list? Ever wonder what percentage of employees can…
When a word means something different to every person who uses it, the word essentially means nothing at all. That’s the plight of “brand” and “branding” these days. Hillary Clinton…
A blog is an essential component to any company’s marketing strategy. But posting daily itemizations of your corporate offerings or details from the most current reports on the “industry” and…
Trend spotters note a new economy in the making: the “purpose economy.” They argue that just as the industrial economy supplanted the agrarian economy and then was itself supplanted by…
Arkansas once went by the slogan, “the land of opportunity.” Now, it may need to reconsider resurrecting that title due to tremendous startup activity spreading across the state. Here are...
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Designers and account executives sometimes speak in very different languages. This may come as a challenge in the workplace when the account executive has to translate what the client wants…
We all know the old saying: “dress to impress.” And until mankind can reach a general consensus that comfort and convenience trump aesthetics, the saying will continue to apply to…
You’ve been shaving every other day since you were 18. You followed the conventional wisdom and kept the clean-shaven face so you could keep your job. Well, times have changed….
Why “do branding?” Because branding works. As I outline in my book, the largest, most successful companies deploy millions of dollars and their armies of marketing MBAs to design, deploy…