David Brier Articles
WHY BRANDING FAILS TO WORK - Click To Read Article
An Evan Carmichael Top 25% article: If no exact efforts are made to create, define and manage your brand, the most common and consistent elements to your brand's market presence will become your brand—like it or not.
3 Lessons Microsoft Taught Us About Branding - Click To Read Article
How many years has Apple been dictating how the public perceives "the PC" with its ongoing dialog between our two stars in the "I'm a Mac. I'm a PC." commercials? Is there a lesson we can learn from this. After all, if Microsoft can make mistakes, lose market share and waste marketing dollars, isn't there some takeaway that we can learn from the sidelines in watching this rivalry?
The Seven Deadly Sins of Branding - Click To Read Article
What do Apple, Nike, Dyson and the Mini Cooper have in common? Veteran branding expert designer David Brier dissects the key liabilities in creating a world-class killer brand, seven to be exact. Citing information from the Wall Street Journal, David offers a succinct message especially useful in these times when intelligent marketing must be senior to all other efforts a business makes.
HOW A BRAND DIES OR HOW NOT TO LEAVE YOUR BRAND TO FATE - Click To Read Article
In the billion dollar beer market, the brand strength of an American beer is sometimes its most powerful "reason-to-buy." The Wall Street Journal not so long ago had this to say about the Stroh Brewery, the nation's fourth largest brewer, now being sold off: "The sale of Stroh, a 149-year-old Detroit brewer that was once a strong contender in the beer market, is the result of poor brand management in a flat market, distributors said.... It [Stroh] didn't take advantage of its strong regional brands...."
BRANDUS INTERRUPTUS - Click To Read Article
You wake up with a brilliant idea, a new concept no one has thought of before. You develop a flawless marketing plan over morning coffee, word gets out and by noon, the best teams of specialists all call you. All these world-class designers, marketing consultants, media planners and brand management professionals offer you their services free, just to be part of your breakthrough concept. By 3:00 p.m., four major global corporations have had their legal departments fax over contracts to form co-branding efforts...
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