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 <title>How to Move from bland to Brand to GRAND™</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Most companies WANT to set themselves apart from their competition, but don&#039;t know HOW.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recently did a keynote presentation for an area Chamber of Commerce Marketing Expo entitled &amp;quot;How to Move from bland to Brand to GRAND: Unique Marketing Ideas to Set You Apart!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get an introduction here:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;http://www.THINK-TANK.com &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:38:52 -0400</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Robert &quot;GRIFF&quot; Griffith</dc:creator>
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 <title>Bio and Interests: Tim Johnson</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;My company, Brandwave, synchronizes brand strategy, identity design, marketing and coactive media to give our clients a sustainable competitive advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We serve companies and organizations of all sizes and types, but our sweet spot is the enterprise that is in transition or that has &amp;quot;hit the wall,&amp;quot; in terms of marketing effectiveness and ROI.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We identify the inherent value within an offer and build proactive differentiation strategies that help companies seize the market position they desire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fastcompany.com/profile-bio-and-interests/profile-bio-and-interests-tjohnsonbrandwavenet&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:48:36 -0400</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Tim Johnson</dc:creator>
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 <title>The Surprising Secret of Successful Differentiation</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;
A successful differentiation is not imitated by your competitors,
even though it brings you unmistakable success with consumers. It seems
impossible? Not quite so. I am about to reveal to you the unexpectedly
simple and wonderful secret of successful differentiation: you must
think beyond the core benefits of your product category. Think:
Off-Core Differentiation.
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&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/dan-herman/outsmart-mba-clones/surprising-secret-successful-differentiation&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:39:55 -0400</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Dan Herman</dc:creator>
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 <title>Can Short-Term Brand &quot;Candidate Obama&quot; Transform Successfully Into Long-Term Brand &quot;President Obama&quot;?</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;
A spate of recent articles about the Obama brand have, in my view as an expert on marketing, neglected the brand&#039;s strategy and focused its verbal or visual expressions. But far more important is the distinction between the short-term brand, &amp;quot;Candidate Obama,&amp;quot; and the long-term brand, &amp;quot;President Obama.&amp;quot; (See Fast Company: &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;/magazine/124/the-brand-called-obama.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Brand Called Obama&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;quot;)
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/dan-herman/outsmart-mba-clones/can-short-term-brand-candidate-obama-transform-successfully-long&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 02:18:43 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Outsmart the MBA Clones</title>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 02:16:06 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Bio and Interests: Dan Herman</title>
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&lt;span&gt;I am an Advantagizer, an expert
in identifying growth opportunities and creating competitive advantages and
even private monopolies for companies and brands. I integrate winning
competitive strategies with profitable business models and psychologically powerful
branding. &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fastcompany.com/profile-bio-and-interests/profile-bio-and-interests-dan-danherman-com&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 02:06:50 -0400</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Dan Herman</dc:creator>
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 <title>Think out of the noise</title>
 <link>http://www.fastcompany.com/profile-blog/think-out-noise</link>
 <description>&lt;span&gt;Differentiation is the key in the new era and here I&#039;ll try to building the playground of exchanging ideas, experiences and knowledge, keeping the noise away&lt;/span&gt; ;-)</description>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:25:53 -0500</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Stefanos Karagos</dc:creator>
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