by Minter Dial | May 19, 2015 | Branding
Most of the corporate finance and marketing courses that I followed in business school back in 1992-3 talked about the need to extract value from one’s activities. It is a founding principle of great branding that says that marketing is the art of adding value....
by Minter Dial | Dec 23, 2014 | Branding
This MasterCard MasterPass full page ad below was on the back of Section A of the Wall Street Journal (US edition) this past Saturday. It’s the express line online It really caught my attention for a number of reasons, not least of which is because it features a...
by Minter Dial | Dec 16, 2014 | Branding
Every day, your email inbox is stuffed with a mixture of important to completely undesirable mails. Gmail has done a stellar job of helping to organize these, even automatically. Yet, we still get too many mails. Even if we have pre-identified all the important...
by Minter Dial | Dec 11, 2014 | Branding
When, how and where I want it… Luxury brands often have it tougher than the mass brands. First, on balance, their customer is decidedly and deservedly more demanding. A big component of this “exigency” relates to time. Secondly, the average luxury...
by Minter Dial | Nov 27, 2014 | Branding
Bad news about Uber continues to dominate the airwaves and the digitally connected consumer — Uber’s target market — is not sitting dormant. There has been the alleged mistreatment of its drivers, women not feeling safe, the godview app to spy...
by Minter Dial | Sep 23, 2014 | Branding
There is nothing so tantalizing as looking at the Apple brand marketing strategy and thinking how to learn from them! But, is everything they do, a de facto lesson for other companies? Sure, Apple is the company with the world’s highest capitalization...
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