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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 and Repair Your Reputation

Skip Prichard

Do you consider your personal brand ? Do you manage your company’s reputation? Why is it important to manage your reputation? Lida Citroen , an expert in the field of reputation management, has a resource to anyone who wants tips to build a reputation that can withstand negative influences and becomes stronger over time.

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Guest Post: 3 Steps to Magnetic Leadership

Lead on Purpose

My largest client is in the apparel industry with a multiplicity of brand names. Instead, product and brand managers are organized into coalitions that serve as a resource one to another. How do you drive your goals when you are not in a line on an organizational chart?

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A.G. Lafley vs. Steve Jobs

Harvard Business Review

As Kevin McFarthing noted in a recent blog post , in more mature markets directive questions can provide useful input. Lafley himself hit on one of these kinds of insights when he was a young brand manager at P&G. Sometimes it is completely appropriate to follow the simple approach of asking customers what they want.

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Avoiding the Schizophrenic IT Organization

Harvard Business Review

Over the next two years, this change in how sales people interact with customers will redefine what the product content will be, how the sales staff will use a new CRM platform to record visits online, and how new insights will be derived from these interactions across sales, marketing, and brand management — ultimately driving decisions.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

Speciality coffee shops are competing with retail brands for consumers’ attention in the grocery aisle, new coffee formats are being introduced (such as single-cup brewing systems), and U.S. The Vancouver-born brand wasn’t always just premium roast coffee beans. competitors are entering the market.

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Why Strong Customer Relationships Trump Powerful Brands

Harvard Business Review

Since the birth of e-commerce, marketing experts have disagreed about the future role of brands. Some have predicted that digital technologies will hasten the demise of brands because customers will have ready access to information they need to make purchase decisions, and “brand” will therefore become less relevant.

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