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Ford Knows the Customers They Want — And They’re Willing to Toss Them the Keys By Kelly Sarabyn For passionate drivers who wanted to add the 2017 Ford GT […]
Continue ReadingBirchbox, and Why Even the Best Products Still Fail
By Kelly Sarabyn Today, there’s a monthly subscription “box” for every niche market. From menswear to beauty products to spices, carefully curated packages mailed direct to the consumer exist in every vertical imaginable. For these monthly deliveries, consumers have […]
Continue ReadingWho’s On Your Creative Team?
By Kate Faigen “History repeats itself.” Bath and beauty product manufacturer Dove would have been wise to take this cautionary proverb to heart before their latest brand blunder. The social […]
Continue ReadingMake Them Earn It: Now is the Time to Make Life Difficult for Customers
By Zach Kliger This year’s surprise video game hit is not another entry into the Call of Duty series. In fact, it doesn’t seem to follow any standard at all […]
Continue ReadingSelling Immortality: How Elysium Brands Its Impossible Promise
by Erin J. Mullikin “When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.” George Burns, who spent 93 years in show business, and famously died mere weeks after […]
Continue ReadingThe Right Kind of Wrong: Szechuan Sauce and the Hero’s Journey
By Mary McCool Can a hot mess be manufactured? McDonald’s recently proved it’s willing to try. Earlier this year, the chain’s “Mulan SzeChuan Teriyaki Dipping Sauce” returned to cultural memory […]
Continue ReadingBusinesses Don’t Buy Things. People Do.
The Only Way to Succeed in this New Age of B2B Selling: Stories Oracle is the world’s second-largest software company, a feat they have managed to accomplish without a […]
Continue ReadingVillains in the Valley: How America’s Innovators Have Lost Their Way
By Zach Kliger Silicon Valley startup Bodega believed they could reinvent the traditional corner store as a glorified vending machine — and they were very, very wrong. As soon as […]
Continue ReadingOpen Office Critics Have It All Wrong
By Kate Faigen When it comes to the merits — or not — of open offices, it’s pretty much all been said already. The consensus appears to be that this […]
Continue ReadingActions Speak Louder Than Words
How TD Bank Ruined the Best Banking Brand in America By Ed Lynes In 1957, Better Living, an appliance store in Wisconsin, advertised itself as offering the “world’s lowest prices.” […]
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