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What a Packaging Makeover Can Do For Your Company

Recently, some of the world's best-known companies have revamped their images through a radical redesign of their product packaging. Just how successful have these makeovers been?READ»

I'm Gonna Wash That Ad Right out of My Hair

Even if you're not in the WB's target demographic -- and honestly, you'd be reading Tigerbeat's blog if you were -- that's no reason not to tune in tonight at 8 for What I Like About You. According to the WB, this show is about two ...READ»

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BRAND STRATEGY: WHERE IS ROI?

There is a no disputing the fact that the business world is moving at a breakneck speed and individuals and corporate capability to harness all the tools to make strategy successful is becoming daunting. To get return on brand ...READ»

Want Teens to Notice Your Product Placement? Use the Web

Want Teens to Notice Your Product Placement? Use the Web

Teens and college students are skipping or tuning out traditional advertising more and more, minimizing screens or muting the volume. Being able to be part of the content youth consume or even creating branded content is one way ...READ»

Brand equity building

Brand equity is the sustained value that customers placed on your brand over others. Brand equity is built through a consistent and sustained delivery of promise. This suggests that brand equity is built over time. Equity is not built ...READ»

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Milan 2009: A Peek At The MGX Concept Car By Materialise

A side view of the MGX by Materliase concept car.--Julie Taraska Inside the MGX by Materliase concept car.--Julie Taraska See more pictures from Milan 2009.READ»

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How Equate Equity?

A new book by Nick Wreden, FusionBranding: How to Forge Your Brand for the Future challenges conventional wisdom by proposing that brand equity doesn't really matter. Customer equity does. First emerging in the early '90s, the ...READ»

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This Five-Letter Word Is Key to Marketing Success: B-R-A-N-D

While the concept of personal branding has taken off corporate branding seems to go in and out of favor. Economic cycles may have a lot to do with that. With the growth of the Internet and social technology tools, personal branding ...READ»

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Does Your Brand Need to be Born Again?

Some brands are timeless: Tiffany's, Ivory Soap, even Coca-Cola. They're classic icons in our minds. They've stood the test of time. We know what they are and what they represent. Their brand story is clear and consistent in any day ...READ»

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Goal-Oriented Requirements: Key to Developing Quality Products

The old computer adage “Garbage –In- Garbage Out (GIGO) is quite true when developing new consumer products. One of the key reasons new products fail in the marketplace is because of bad feature/function set requirements presented ...READ»

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Goal-Oriented Requirements: Key to Developing Quality Products

The old computer adage “Garbage –In- Garbage Out (GIGO) is quite true when developing new consumer products. One of the key reasons new products fail in the marketplace is because of bad feature/function set requirements presented ...READ»

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Goal-Oriented Requirements: Key to Developing Quality Products

The old computer adage “Garbage –In- Garbage Out (GIGO) is quite true when developing new consumer products. One of the key reasons new products fail in the marketplace is because of bad feature/function set requirements presented ...READ»

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How a Brand Dies or How Not to Leave Your Brand to Fate

Use these "7 Deadly Sins of Branding" to help your brand rise above the noise.READ»

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The Oprah Winfrey (and GM) Show

It was the ''product placement to end all product placements,'' the Washington Post declared. It epitomized "a marketing era that morphs advertising, public relations, event marketing and product placement into one confusing jumble ...READ»

The Good Brand

Brands are less and less about what we buy, and more and more about who we are. That means your cola can't just taste good. It has to feel good, too.READ»

A Sustainable Concept

Originally, I started to write this entry about a Sustainable Brand Identity. But as I put pen to paper and fingers to keyboard, I realized that my opening paragraph deserved a bit more attention. It's about the importance of a ...READ»

Kensington To Make Your Desk Wire-Free

Computer accessory maker Kensington [NYSE:ABD] has introduced a new product to market that capitalizes newly on the "wireless" wave: a USB docking station that is -- you guessed it -- wireless. Let's say you bring ...READ»

Don't Shout, Listen

At Procter Gamble, branding is almost everything. And in the age of the Web, almost everything is up for grabs. Here's how P G has turned the Internet into a device for listening to customers -- and for experimenting with its brands.READ»

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Quick intro

Greetings,  I just discovered Fastcompany and I would like to participate and contribute if I can. I am an author, inventor and product developer. I am intimately familiar with advanced technology and innovationand ...READ»

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So THAT’S What the Customer Wants!

Yesterday, I had more fun than a trainer/consultant has the right to have. Each of my client’s teams was presenting its Business Case—the justification for proceeding into the development stage for a new product. In product ...READ»

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Who Gets "It"? Marketers That Develop Brand "Programs", Not "Campaigns"

Marketing schizophrenia can be defined in many ways, but one of the most compelling barometers I've found is an advertiser's consistent creation of short term "campaigns". (And of course, use of the term brand campaign.) ...READ»

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Brand Manager for Your Career

My days as an executive recruiter generalist provided insight into many businesses and disciplines. It was the Brand Manager role in many executives and some entrepreneurs I love to apply to the personal brand manager required in ...READ»

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The Brand Called UK II

No sooner had I posted that previous entry, did FC Now reader Kirsten Osolind email me a recent piece on Chicago's brand. City leaders just finished a year-long research project designed to discover Chicago's brand identity: slightly ...READ»

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DMI Branding Conference - Day Two

The Design Management Institute kicked off day two of this year's conference, Design + Brand + Experience, with two presentations from global brand leaders. The first presentation, from Verena Kloos, president of BMW Group's ...READ»

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New Product Development Tools

According to Don Debelak in his book, How to Bring a Product  To Market for Less Than $5,000,  a product can be developed by "taking apart existing products and use their parts to  make a new product."  Well, that ...READ»