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Bud Light’s Declining Sales are About More Than a Boycott!

Lots of comments on this The Wall Street Journal story about the decline in sales of Bud Light, tying the sales decline to a “boycott”. I’m skeptical of that line of reasoning. It is too simplistic for me. While it is likely that this “boycott” is having some impact on demand, I’d tag the larger challenge on poor #brandmanagement by AB […]

Goldman Sach’s Marcus Consumer Banking Unit has Struggled…

The story of Goldman Sachs being “at war” with itself is pretty standard “I’m mad I’m not getting my way” so I will savage someone in the press type stuff. What is interesting is the struggles of Marcus, Goldman’s consumer facing bank face. Why has Marcus struggled? It begins with the concept of “core competencies.” Goldman is […]

7 Brand Management Tips for Folks in Professional Services…

Hey! I’m doing a special webinar on Thursday, June 15 at 1 PM Eastern focused on helping folks in professional services do a better job with their brands. This is coming off the back of the one I did on June 1 for AudienceView that was focused on people in the world of tickets. As a preview, […]

OPERA America’s Survey Shows an Industry in Freefall…

Hi! 15th June 2023 at 1 PM Eastern time: we are doing another FREE webinar on brand management for professional services. If you sell into the world of tickets as a service or tool provider, this is likely up your alley. My ambition is to do one of these a month as a way to replace […]

2 Foundational Questions of a Great Strategy…

It is debatable whether anyone can call a strategy “great” until you see the results of the efforts the strategy creates. But there are two essential questions at the heart of setting a good strategy: Begin with the customer. No customer, no business. Simple, foundational, but often missed because people become enamored with a new […]

A Riff on the Padres/MLB/RSN and the Business of Sports…

Is it possible for the Padres and MLB to maintain the same business model and revenue now that Diamond Sports Group has walked away from its media rights deal? No. I’ve got two reasons why I think this doesn’t work: The idea of sliding from the RSN model to an OTT model is hard to […]

Pricey! That’s What Watching Sports on TV is Going to Become! Also, UX v. Ticketmaster!

Hey! What did y’all think of yesterday’s webinar? Let me know by replying to this email. Check out the growing Dave shop. New offers and opportunities will be coming now that I have a technical issue fixed. Also, I’m doing my first in the new series of monthly webinars on brand management for professional service firms. This […]