Corporate Branding
Five Stars – How reviews shape brand experience
So, ultimately, the best thing for the shopper and the brand is understanding and using customer reviews, comments, and ratings as you beging to learn what a brand is about, who they are really making this product for, and what you need to know to discover the brand that will fill your needs.
Read MoreQwikster is dead. Too little too late.
Only a month ago Qwikster was launched to repair the damage of mid July’s disasters announcement of the take-it-or-leave-it strategy of doubling the price of both DVD deliveries and streaming movies. After two ridiculous moves, resulting in tons of nasty comments and thousands of lost customers and a stock drop from $245 a share to…
Read MoreChanging the way we think: Steve Jobs 1956-2011
The amazing thing about what Apple has done under Jobs established a benchmark for a whole different experience for the consumer. He obsessed about this and knew that it was not the amount of ram or speed you had it was what things did and how they simplified your world
Read MoreNetflix creates Qwikster and says sorry too late
Okay, tell your super-loyal customers that you are giving them two months notice, then you are doubling the price of the products they know and love. You get a choice to get streaming movies, which have a limited number of titles, or continue your DVD deliveries, which have just about everything
Read MoreWho owns brand colors?
It’s easy to pick a brand color, right? Not as easy as you think. Depending on your industry, the message and focus of your brand everything can change. The color, look and feel not only establishes what you are but who you are. This is why trade dress is so important. It’s happened several times…
Read MoreDon’t Mess with Customer Loyalty, Netflix!
When Netflix just announce a 60% increase in rates they drove shock waves through thousands of loyal customers of absolutely loved Netflix. Is say loved because many of the comments, blog entries and Tweets are saying how Netflix is screwing over their loyal customer base.
Read MoreMurder of the Flip Camera
Cisco, like many technology companies, thinks only linearly. What they do is in the context of their technological hold in the market, but the Flip does not fit this model
Read MoreThe personalized offer: maybe those brands don’t know you
Large companies and even mid size to smaller can now get tons of data on you. How you shop, what you buy, what your age group does, what your neighborhood does – but do they really get you?
Read MoreThe Touchpoints of Customer Service – That “Good Vibe” Feeling
If you’re like me most of your banking is done online these days. I go the accounts area, pay bills, move money around and occasionally check out other services, all with no person involved. I then deposit checks at nonhuman ATM machines. I usually only interact when I need something fixed or just plain don’t…
Read MoreIf You Dominate in Sales Are You the Best Brand?
Denny’s may be a top restaurant chain but its focus is on one segment of the market. It may not be my brand. Gap may be a great clothing brand to some but it’s limited to the demographics where it succeeds, just like Jack in the Box
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