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How unexceptional brands can find growth
In his post exploring Epic Growth, Mats Georgson focuses on 150 companies with an average of 860% re...
What we can learn from brands that went bankrupt
I started my market research career at the Foods Division of Cadbury Schweppes. As I noted in my sec...
Can DTC brands beat the performance plateau?
A couple of weeks ago I published this post asking why and when startups should start investing in b...
Why and when do startups need to start investing in their brand?
Growth. It is what every company seeks, but startups particularly live or die by their growth trajec...
How to become an advertising rock star
OK, maybe that title is a little misleading. Rock star advertisers usually get awarded Lions at Cann...
Is marketing becoming overloaded?
I was not surprised to see that The Future of Creativity finds that 83% of brand and agency marketer...
Can Tesla emulate the Apple iPhone?
In June 2007 Apple launched the iPhone. Despite initial criticism, the iPhone changed the way ...
Three questions to help set realistic marketing growth targets
In his recent article on Mumbrella, "The forgotten 'P' of marketing," Ryan France references the 'sp...
How “easy to pay” fuels brand growth
The objective of marketing is to make it easier for people to choose the marketed brand. The basic r...
Why “er” is the most important suffix in marketing
For a while now I have been using the phrase, "Easy to mind, easy to find, and easy to pay," to desc...
Why marketers need to grow penetration at a profit
Growing penetration is the main growth driver available to marketers, but unless that growth is achi...
After disruptive growth come incremental gains
Which would you prefer? Disruptive growth or incremental gains? I suspect most of us would opt for d...
Advocacy drives growth…or does it?
The following is reposted in its original form. The stimulus for doing so was provided by this artic...