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Brand Exposure

N2Growth Blog

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you.

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How to Build a Brand | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Avoid controversy, maintain a high likeability factor, consistently and proactively engage your customers, be a business of character that engenders trust and confidence with your target market(s), produce a quality product or service at a competitive price point, and provide great customer service.

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Taking a Step Back Doesn’t Always Move You Forward

In the CEO Afterlife

Early in my career, when I worked for a couple of big companies in brand management, I joined my colleagues in nodding to the notion of taking a step back. Yes, these pundits were bright and articulate, but they could also be very political. That means nimbleness, laser-like focus, and market specialization.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target. Social Media Influence [.]

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Why CEOs Should Watch the Royal Wedding

Harvard Business Review

Brilliant brand management is multi-media and cause-related. Within the confines of good taste, we hope, the Brits are marketing the heck out of the wedding. A 2010 study showed that the public cost of supporting the monarchy was more than $55 million in 2009. history at the equivalent in pounds of about $30 million.

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Miracle Whip, Marmite, and the Love-It-or-Hate-It Brand

Harvard Business Review

The TV ads are nicely tongue-in-cheek, featuring, among others, political guru James Carville (lover) and "Jersey Shore" star Pauly D (hater). Messing with a much loved brand is never easy, but astute brand management involved ardent fans with the relaunch and enlisted another British icon, Paddington Bear, to bring the brand back to growth.

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Know When to Kill Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

Killing off brands is not a popular or pleasant thought, but we should consider it more often than we do. Some executives may be reluctant to admit – perhaps for sentimental or political reasons — that their brand is sucking out more value from the company than it creates.

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