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A 7-Step Recipe for Marketing Success

How Catherine Davis helped Diageo serve up TheBar.com to gain share.READ»

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10 Taglines to Help U.S. Companies Compete in a Post-American World

When a company makes a brand promise in a tagline, it's committing to a relationship. Here are ten taglines in search of new American mates willing to help take back the 21st century.READ»

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Arthur's Day: The 250th Birthday of Guinness Beer

Thanks to Richard Branson, one lucky fellow will tap the malty brew's semiquincentennial with a Virgin Galactic flight and a zero-gravity pint. (We're buying everyone a round if the winner says, "One two-step pour for man, one foamy ...READ»

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How to Run Your Brand Like a Therapist

To keep consumers coming back, companies should consider getting in touch with their feelings.READ»

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Is Business Getting Girly? Don Draper Reports

As a rule I'm a 'never-before-noon' man. But one morning recently there it was, on top of the spread of magazines laid out for me on my desk. Cover story of The Atlantic Monthly, the magazine founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and some cronies over a few drinks at the Parker House Hotel in Boston in 1857. Four words. "The End Of Men." READ»

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Fast Talk: Adman Jangles for a Hit Jingle

Josh Rabinowitz SVP, Director of Music, Grey Worldwide Brooklyn, New York Josh Rabinowitz, 43, wants to turn music created for an ad into a hit song. A former record producer, composer, trombonist, and band leader, he works ...READ»

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“Daddy, What’s a Brand?” and 9 More Awkward Questions for Uncertain Times

In uncertain times like these, let's get back to basics, shall we? Graham Button investigates 10 questions we all should be asking ourselves.READ»

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The View From 2020: A Datasnap From the Near Future

Graham Button takes a break from his Microsoft U studies at a rented media pod on the beach in Zanzibar to file a post ten years from now.READ»

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Fast Talk: Shake and Stir

For Jon Deitelbaum, marketing a new brand of vodka is as much about the experience as the taste.READ»

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Desire: Connecting With What Customers Want

There's too much of everything: a head-spinning array of products, an eye-glazing gaggle of ads, a mind-numbing barrage of information. So what are the most desirable ways to reach your customers? Melinda Davis and her Human Desire Project have developed five answers. Marketers with a desire to succeed are paying attention.READ»

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60 Years Later, Everyone's Still Loving the AK-47

The iconic machine gun turns 60 this year, and remains one of the most effective tools ever designed. Graham Button heads to his local gun show to find out why something that kills people is so revered.READ»

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Burger King Going Brazilian in $4 Billion Buyout

An investment firm backed by a trio of wealthy Brazilians is buying the fast food franchise.READ»

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Online, We're the Sales Leads and the Cookies are the Closers

My son plays some pretty obscure online games. You have to leave the beaten track to find them. About six months ago he was playing one in my dungeon office at home, where I was using hypnosis to coax ideas out of a blank piece of ...READ»

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Designed Experiences: The Evolution of Intelligent Design

Established brands are an evolution, constantly adapting. Designed brands are born adapted.READ»

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Has Your Company Gone Mad?

If the normal 9-5 work atmosphere keeps giving you normal results then perhaps it’s time to go back to a simpler time. A time when employees gave it their all. READ»

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Edinburgh University Researchers Turn Whisky Dregs Into Fuel for Everyday Cars

Future fuel consumption rates may be measured in Miles to the Dram.READ»

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The Ultimate Design Language? Words.

The more user-centered design is, the better. And no medium is more user-centered than the written word.READ»

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Energy Galore as Whisky Island Harnesses Even More Scottish Tidal Power for Distilleries [Updated]

A prototype tidal energy turbine is to be built on the west coast of Scotland that will be the world's most advanced, claims the company that is to make the device. The $6.25 million contract has been won by Burntisland Fabrications*, ...READ»

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Voyage to the New Economy

Executives are leaving the security of big companies for the Internet economy. Should you sign up for the journey? What can you expect once you arrive at your destination? Or have you already missed the boat?READ»

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How to Design the Internet Experience Without Becoming the Advertisers' Bitch

New web ventures need income. But if you’re going to be 2.0, then you can’t be the advertisers’ bitch. Everyone’s so very tired of that uninvited guest, the corporation. READ»

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What Does the Blogosphere Say About You and Your Organization?

Dynamic leadership starts with insight. Are you brave enough to use yours?READ»

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Fast Talk: Brands We Love

Love, loyalty, passion. When people have those feelings for your product or service, how do you manage that? Nurture it? We spoke with the brand advocates for five products we love to find out their secrets.READ»

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Now September 2009

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God and Mammon at Harvard

Harvard's B-school has some competition across the Charles River: the divinity school, which is turning out a new flock of spiritually minded business leaders.READ»