by Minter Dial | Nov 13, 2013 | Branding
During my stay in Shanghai, I was lucky enough to be invited to a very unusual fashion show entitled Glam Dogs, a fashion show for dogs. Put on by the flash sales site, Glamour Sales China — whose founder and CEO, Thibault Villet, I interviewed a few...
by Minter Dial | Oct 11, 2013 | Branding
A simple business plan: Make products that people want to buy. Over the last years, we have seen an increasing emphasis on customer centricity. It seems clear that the direct relationship that one can now have between brand and customer has rendered being...
by Minter Dial | Aug 15, 2013 | Branding
As brand marketers, we spend our careers putting value into our proposition. That is what we are trained and paid to do. Agencies such as Millward Brown and Interbrand have created indices to evaluate brand equity via proprietary algorithms. Meanwhile, on...
by Minter Dial | Jul 2, 2013 | Branding
Some industries — such as fashion, food, magazine — seem to have a wildly plethoric spread of brands. So many brands, so little distinction or personality. In this post, I want to push further why it’s important that any marketing branding...
by Minter Dial | Jun 12, 2013 | Branding
Why is digital like water? When asking people “what is digital?” I tend to get a different answer from pretty much everyone I ask. Yes, the pithy answer is that digital is immaterial. It’s intangible. A bunch of zero’s...
by Minter Dial | Jun 3, 2013 | Branding
The “idea” of customer centricity is typically rather desirable. Many companies have used the words “customer centric” sprinkled into their annual report. [Is being Customer Centric truly desirable?] The concept may be repeated in...
