by Minter Dial | Jun 11, 2015 | Marketing
At its core, branding is about adding value into one’s offer. It is both an art and a science. The science is typically applied to innovation in the form of Research & Development, the excellence in the product and the veracity of the claims. But,...
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 3, 2015 | Marketing
British Airways, which as many of you might have followed is NOT on my favorite airline list (see here for how they handled my downgrade), is at it again. Two people in my network wrote me to tell me how they received this ‘error’ message. Anyone else out...
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 12, 2015 | Social Media
Have you ever considered changing the URL domain name of an existing site? In other words, keeping all the content (and structure) the same, you want the root name of the site to be different. At the end of last year, I decided to switch my website domain name from...