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💔 🔨Ye and The Gap: Breaking Up Ain’t Hard!

Co-Branding: You bring you. I’ll bring myself. The Big Idea: Kanye and Gap break up: that’s okay. Co-Branding is when two brands come together to reach entirely different audiences. The brands bring their own attributes to the combined partnership to create something greater than the two alone.  For Gap and Kanye, going their own ways will […]
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👑The Royal Family: Brand Managers👑

Royalty: Always about the Brand! The Big Idea: The Royal Family has a brand consultant. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. The Crown is a distinctive brand asset.  The palaces: Check. The crest: Absolutely.  Martin Lindstrom’s book, Brandwashed, covers this topic.  The key: Royal Families around the world spend a lot of time thinking about brand management.  What […]
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🔦Brand Codes: More than a Logo!

Death to big logos isn’t the end of brands!  The skinny: Designers are skipping logos in their fall and winter collections.  Why it matters: If this trend holds, brands will need to invest more in brand codes.  Codes? Yes. Those 4-6 symbols that a person associates with your brand.  Think: Tiffany’s blue box The interlocked NY on a […]
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Value and Differentiation

One of the core ideas that I find myself teaching when I teach strategy to companies is the need to differentiate themselves. Or, in the way that I help frame the conversation: “Why you?”   In studying differentiation models over the years, I’ve found a couple different POVs on the art of differentiation.  Rosser Reeves taught […]
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