Recent Work – Brand Development at CarbonClick
Was really happy to work with the amazing Carbon Click team to rethink there brand. Rethink = Refocus on the core values or what is called Customer Based Brand Equity. Strong marketing and communications teams are continually looking at their brand, what it means to stakeholders, what is its experience and how it could transform. […]
Your Brand Strategy? A Wonder of the World?
I recently visited the Tajmahal with colleagues from mriu.edu.in Nikhil and Arun. What an amazing place! Such romance and history. The one thing that makes the Tajmahal a wonder of the world is a combination of the overall vision of beauty built on extreme detail. I was shown the centre line from which the overall […]
Building Valued Digital Brands in India
The main key issue I am placing emphasis here with Indias digital revolution is the importance of startups creating strong valued digital brands. Two of my papers will help to under this process: Davis, R.A. Piven, I., and M Breazeale (2014). A Conceptual Model of Consumers Service Brand Consumption in Social Media Community, Journal of Retailing […]
RED: A new look for drrobertdavis.com
RED: A new look for drrobertdavis.com What does RED mean: action, power, energy, speed, passion, strength, courage, motivating, stimulating, energizing, determined, exciting, warm, and confident.
Infinite Brands are Social Media Brands Owned by the Community
Infinite Brands are Social Media Brands Owned and Sustained by the Community. I have recently come to think about the whole concept of infinite brands. This is divergent thinking because 99.9% of existing marketing theory on branding is based upon the concept of finite brands. Lets first define finite brands. They are created and then […]
What is the most value brand in the world? Millward Brown, Brand Finance and Interbrand Rankings
From the “The Economist, 30 August 2014, pp 53-54 (two articles); The Daily Telegraph, 2 September 2014, p B5; telegraph.co.uk, 2 September 2014” The Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK cites that “Brands can be the most valuable things that a company owns; Millward Brown calculates that they make up 30% of the value […]
Political Marketing: Part 4 – Be Good and Behave
A student of mine, Van, was talking to me about my last post on political marketing and the effect of aggressive comparisons. Not playing fair and marketing in an unethical way. So, called dirty politics. Van recalled a great campaign by Apple which we probably all know where a comparison is made between Apple and the […]
Part Three: Political Marketing vs. Marketing. Why is it different (or should be)?
This is my last post on the current political marketing strategies being employed in the 2014 New Zealand general election. I was in my place of thinking (Mountain Biking at Woodhill Forest Bike Park) the other day. I was thinking about Political Marketing vs. Marketing. Something to get me up the hills. Why is it different […]
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