by Minter Dial | Apr 28, 2021 | Branding, Ethics, Marketing, Meaningfulness
With purpose being all the rage these days, it’s normal to start hearing about wild and crazy purposes being bandied about. On one end of the scale, you’ve got grand missions like: “To stop Ocean Plastic by gathering a billion people together to monetize...
by Minter Dial | Jan 24, 2021 | Branding, Minter Dialogue, Podcast
Minter Dialogue with Julie Cottineau Julie Cottineau is an author, a brand passionista, who is founder and CEO of BrandTwist brand consultancy. In this conversation, we discuss the origin of her Brand Tattoo Test, her work at and lessons learned while working as head...
by Minter Dial | Oct 20, 2020 | Branding, Marketing
How would you evaluate your marketing efforts in terms of trustworthiness on a scale of 1-10 (low to high)? Many are the times that I have seen people inside companies cringe at the way a colleague marketer speaks, or roll their eyes at the types of claims that their...
by Minter Dial | Sep 1, 2020 | Branding, Meaningfulness, Responsibility
Being a “brand guy,” I tend to look at businesses through the lens of branding: what does the brand stand for? how strong is its brand? But, what exactly is a brand? Can any/every company or business actually be a brand? How can one build up a brand? In...
by Minter Dial | Jun 18, 2020 | Branding, Leadership, Marketing, Meaningfulness
I get the feeling we are about to undergo a monumental sea change at work. The one-two punch of the global pandemic and social movements such as Black Lives Matter that have spread out around the world mean that we are in for some seismic transformation in business...
by Minter Dial | Jun 16, 2020 | Branding, Ethics, Marketing
Why you’ve got to strengthen your ethics and empathy As we ease into the post lockdown period, businesses around the world will kick into gear in a rush to recuperate lost business. Where many companies will be in a fight for survival, they may turn to desperate...
