By APNWLNS payday loans

Categories

Recent Posts

Archives

Blogroll

My other stuff

Recommended blogs

Archive for the ‘Branding & competitive advantage’ Category

Clever creative – ANAR billboard: One ad & one media, but two targets and two messages

  This came to me via one of my students, and I thought it worthy of sharing with a larger audience – primarily for the creative approach to segmentation, but also for its message. This work comes out of Spain, and was done for the ANAR foundation (Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation). [...]

If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it!

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Dove Real Beauty Sketches: a campaign or a movement?

I love this new campaign by Dove. It features a forensic sketch artist creating images of women as they describe themselves, and as others who they have recently met, see them. All images where created without actually seeing the person, instead relying on how each person interview described them. Subjects were then shown the images [...]

If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it!

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Mobile disruption: Are you ready to buy with a #hashtag?

Market forces, technology, and opportunity are converging on the mobile phone front, and about to launch a huge disruptive force in commerce. While we have become accustomed to promotional and communication opportunities enabled by the internet and social media, the distribution and pricing channel is about to heat up. According to the recently released Comscore [...]

If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it!

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

8 trends to track in 2013

Christine Day, CEO of Lululemon, said something recently in conversation that has echoed with me for days. When asked how she keeps up with trends and ensures that her company is on the leading edge, she responded, “I scan the environment reading magazines across many industries. I listen for what is next, not evidence of [...]

If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it!

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Newspapers in 2013: Not dead, just different

As Mark Twain, noted American humourist declared in 1897, “The reports of my death were greatly exaggerated.” The same could be said of print newspapers in 2013. For much of the last century, print media organizations have staked their revenue success on the business of selling readers to advertisers. Circulation, readers per copy and time [...]

If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it!

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Super Bowl Sunday: The battle for eyeballs and wallets is on. How will RIM and BlackBerry 10 hold up?

First off, a confession: I’m not a huge football fan. Being Canadian however, I love to both play and watch hockey. So on some level, I do understand the primal urge to sit around the big screen, partaking in a shared social experience, beer in hand, tossing back munchies and cheering for the favored team. [...]

If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it!

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Place and purpose creative winners and losers!

Sometimes creativity just requires a slightly different perspective on things. Take this bus shelter ad for example. Displayed upright it would be just like any other. Made into a ramp, it take on purpose and meaning to a target group of skateboarders. However, this misplaced Turkish Airlines ad is quite comical. What on earth were [...]

If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it!

Tags: , , , , , ,

7 Top tips to creating content that begs to be shared

We likely all remember this classic scene from Lady and the Tramp. It’s an iconic image of love and sharing. Wouldn’t it be great if, in leveraging your influence, you could evoke that same urge to share your content by your followers? But the first thing to consider is the reason WHY people share your [...]

If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it!

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Biggest social media disasters of 2012

Like an accident scene, it seems we can’t resist the temptation to stop and crane our necks and gaze at others misfortune. This year’s biggest social media disasters can be best summed up in three categories: 1. Insensitive: The Gap and American Apparel take the prize here. Both retailers got caught encouraging consumers on Twitter [...]

If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it!

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Beardo and the Beermo. Social media success from Canada, eh?

Some of us are counting down the days until the end of November when the faces of Movember men are replaced by the clean-shaven. For those lamenting the passing of this hairy month, you may find solstice in the Canadian made Beardo or Beermo courtesy of http://www.beardowear.ca/ The brainchild of Jeff Phillips, a snowboarder who [...]

If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it!

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,