by Minter Dial | Sep 4, 2015 | Branding
A friend who was writing a dissertation asked me to respond to a few questions on digital marketing for luxury brands. Herewith are the questions and answers I gave. Q: Is it vital for luxury brands to go beyond having a mere online presence (i.e. a Facebook page),...
by Minter Dial | Aug 26, 2015 | Branding, Self Driving Car
I’m still considering Google’s change of name to Alphabet. Yes, I’ve read the explanatory press release and many pundits’ opinions. Yes, I realize that Google has spawned businesses far removed from the familiar search engine/media platform we have come to know and...
by Minter Dial | Aug 11, 2015 | Branding
We are all quite aware that the times they are a changing… but it’s worth remembering that there are certain facets of human nature that have not changed. Over the summer weeks of reflection, I thought it worth putting down some of these “laws of...
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...