Posts Tagged ‘online brands’
BIG DATA – it’s where the real value is for brands
Businesses, governments, even you and me have so much data—how the heck do we keep track of our exploding world? It’s like suddenly having the Library of Congress in your bedroom: what good is it if you can’t even figure out how to find anything?
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 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 MoreWhatever happened to retail window displays?
This was the time when retail was immediate and visual as you passed one store front after another. Seeing if you could get pulled into the store by what’s in the window.
Read MoreO.co? Branding the wrong name for Overstock.com
Rule 1. in building brands is evolve value and keep building on what you have. Most companies that have dumped an old name for a new one to try to “reinvent” themselves have run head on into customer confusion.
Read MoreYahoo Nothing to Shout About. Why the Yahoo brand is lost and has no idea who it’s customers are.
Yahoo seems to have no idea what it’s trying to do with it’s site. They don’t even power their own own search now that it has been “outsourced” to Microsoft.
Read MoreAsk Jeeves is Back! – the butler’s back in the UK!
Three years after making a critical online branding mistake, Ask Jeeves in Great Britain is back with a fancy new suit and good advice. Yes, the Jeeves brand element, which we redesigned, has returned to center stage.
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