by Minter Dial | Jun 9, 2015 | Marketing, Meaningfulness
Branding is everyone’s responsibility When I am talking about branding with smaller company (SMB) leaders, I often find the interest level in their own brand to be, at best, primitive. I hear statements such as: Branding is not relevant for my size of business;I...
by Minter Dial | Jun 2, 2015 | Leadership, Meaningfulness, Responsibility
“Oh yes, that’s super important,” this product marketer said to me, referring to the position of the bottle of shampoo on the shelf. Hum, I thought to myself. How important is important? As more and more brands work to connect with their customers...
by Minter Dial | May 26, 2015 | Marketing
The larger brick & mortar companies that are transforming into the digital era typically have their hands very full. It is a tricky path to weave, maintaining the current business flow, while fundamentally changing the longer-term mindset. The...
by Minter Dial | May 21, 2015 | Leadership
There is corporate strategy, then there is brand strategy. There are corporate communications and corporate shareholders; then there are employees and customers. There are corporate values, policies and procedures and then there is innovation, digital and customer...
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....