The rude Apprentice by Cassette Boy

A brilliant but rather rude skit by the very talented Cassette Boy on the much loved and hated programme The Apprentice.

Branding is branding is branding

Sticking marks on the side of cows was where branding started, but now people who wear overtly branded clothes, shoes and hang out in branded retailers are doing the same. They are saying they are part of the same branded ‘tribe’ or herd’ as everyone else with the same brand.

Margate fights back – Rebrand or no rebrand

Rebranding any place in isolation will achieve absolutely nothing. Using it as an excuse to show people you have changed and will behave differently going forward has the potential to really work. This applies to ANY brand, be it place, product or service. `For Margate to prove it wants to succeed, it has to dare to be different.

Martin Lindstrom – Buyology – Book review

There’s a lot to learn from Martin Lindstrom’s Buyology, not least of which is the fact that conventional research as a predictor of potential buyer behaviour is on the verge of useless. What we say we will do, buy or watch is barely related to what we do in reality

Nice post about branded philately

Branded stamps could be the future to get kids writing again. Letters, Just do it

What are the eleven rules and three checkpoints for brilliant branding?

My very own checklist for starting to look at any branding project, in order to capture where the business and the brand already is, which highlights what we need to work on in order to turn it around or grow it even further

Its Purple Circle’s 18th Birthday

In May 1991, three innocent young men started a branding business called Purple Circle at the tender ages of 24 years and with a grand total of 18 months post college work experience. It should have been a recipe for disaster, but somehow, we have kept going and kept growing.

Rebranding Margate – The Apprentice Way

Having watched The Apprentice last night for the first time, a few things struck me about the programme itself and the solutions that the contestants put forward as to how they would rebrand Margate. Neither team really understood what a rebrand was all about.

A stunning article on new brand thinking

Changing logos is pointless, branding is about the experience, enlightened clients apply here please.

He can’t get no satisfaction

Rather excellent article from Andy Hanselman about why satisfaction is never enough.
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