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Evolve or Evaporate…
Any brand must “evolve” as it grows, or become stagnant, and lose all momentum built up since its inception. This sometimes requires making a bold move to obsolete a product, even when sales would tell you to hold on longer. When moving a product out of the life cycle while still popular, creates an inherent […]
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Brand Juice…
Driving, and building a Brand’s ID to your “core” audience is key to developing a social presence, and long term relevance. “Juicing” the Brand is a continual process, and has many components that work together to ensure you have an effective marketing strategy. In the “digital” age you are constantly challenged with not only keeping […]
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Product Innovation Cycle…
Driving continuous Product Innovation is a key component to a brand hitting on all cylinders. Many brands that have this mentality are at the forefront of their respective product category evolution, and other brands are content to “bleed the juice” out of their “one hit wonder”(OHW). This OHW strategy will move a product along the life […]
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Create the Wave…and Ride it !
As I have previously discussed, brands can either “ride out” their success, or they can create a “new wave”. Most prefer to ride their wave out, or catch someone else’s. It is the fearless brand that takes chances, and some may hit the rocks occasionly, but when they “catch” a wave it is usually a […]
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Product Pipeline…
A “Product Innovation Pipeline” is built from foundational brand positioning principles, and driven by a defined process execution. As I have mentioned previously, it is much easier to “imitate” than it is to “innovate” in your market space. However, if you have a defined process for ensuring “Innovation” is always part of your overall brand […]
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Blending Function & Design…
As simple as it sounds, building functionality into a beautiful design is not always easy. At times you will need to sacrifice design aesthetics to achieve the need in functionality. The ultimate goal of any product team is to achieve the “hybrid” formula of “simple” sophistication with a “functional” design. Great brands have established a […]
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Disruptive or Disrupting…
Brands that classify themselves as “Disruptive” have a clearly defined a market opportunity, drive towards bringing this “vision” to reality and understand the risk that comes with this “Creation” process. Brands that “think” they are “Disruptive”, are just “Disrupting” while they figure out what they are trying to accomplish, take “incremental” steps towards design/product progression […]
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Brand Bloodlines…
Brand Bloodlines should always run “deep” in all that is generated by the machine. With product, marketing and merchandising being the veins all should be “True” , “Authentic” and “Bled” from the brand’s founding principles of what you stand for… This will always be expected by your customer, and should always be engrained in your […]
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Impactful Life…
Great post from Seth on “Being Remarkable”, everyones measure of this is different, but he gives a straightforward outline of what it takes to have an IMPACT. I mention IMPACT, as this measure is everlasting and sincere, one that comes naturally for those looking to make Impact on others. You may feel Impactful, but if […]
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