It is vital for brands to differentiate in today’s increasingly crowded consumer space but the same principles apply to the employer and employee relationship, where brand communications and marketing are just as important to retain and attract talent. The reasons for marketers rating their workplace highly are varied, and not always what you might expect. …

Sometimes branding fails are caused by something getting lost in translation. For example, when Coors translated its slogan, “Turn It Loose,” into Spanish, it used a colloquial term for diarrhea. More often, though, branding fails happen because of a lack of a clear style guide, which can result in inconsistency or miscommunication among your content …

Ryanair’s outspoken CMO Kenny Jacobs admits to being “a bit of a bad boy in the industry” but believes brands don’t need to be loved, they just need to stand out enough and retain a healthy dose of common sense. Ryanair CMO Kenny Jacobs is a great believer in common sense marketing. “Do I believe …

Tweederde van de Nederlandse bevolking heeft weinig of geen vertrouwen in de pers, zo bleek uit cijfers van het CBS eind 2016. Het verwondert denk ik vrijwel niemand. Je kunt op je vingers natellen dat commerciële inmenging van bedrijven geen positieve invloed heeft op de onafhankelijkheid van de pers. Bedrijven stellen steeds vaker zelf redacteuren en …

Contrary to popular belief, advertisers will be using direct mail marketing even more in the future,” says an infographic released by the Experian Data Quality group. If you’re wondering how that can be possible, consider these stats noted in the infographic: • Some 70% of Americans say physical mail is “more personal” than email. • …

Freud schreef ooit dat weten geen enkel effect heeft op waarheid. Je kunt een neuroticus nog zoveel inzicht geven in zijn symptomen en waar ze vandaan komen, het heeft geen effect. Omdat de waarheid is dat zijn fobieën of dwangbeelden – hoe disfunctioneel ze ook lijken – een rol spelen in het bedwingen van angst, …

So… you are running an email campaign, and you’ve planned your schedule. That’s great! You’ve developed a campaign plan and you’ve segmented your list. Even better! But now it’s time to craft the actual emails. You send emails every day, you’ve been practicing for this since you got your first AOL account, it should be …

I’m going to give myself a letter grade in personal branding: F. F is for failure. Yeah, if I’m to look back on my career from a personal branding point of view, I deserve the harsh grade. Why? I was a laggard. I failed to get serious about developing my personal brand until I was …

Let’s face it, making a viral brand video is a marketer’s Holy Grail. From the classic sneezing baby panda to the more recent human Gumby dog toy, viral videos pop up out of nowhere and swiftly take the Web by storm, amassing millions of views, shares, and press hits along the way. With that much …