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Describe, command, ask: The 3 types of taglines

10.27.2010
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Each type of tagline has its pros and cons (see also this alternative tagline classification). Descriptive taglines Descriptive taglines describe the brand or product: ‘what we do’ (“We bring good things to life.” –General Electric), ‘who we are’ (“The happiest place on earth.” –Disneyland), product features (“Melts in your mouth, not in your hands.” — M&Ms.), product uses [...]

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Tagline is as tagline does: A classification

10.26.2010
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The process of creating from scratch a brand for my new venture GoodBookery got me thinking about taglines. Should you or shouldn’t you use one? If you decide to go for it, what kind of tagline should it be? And, how do you create a great tagline? “The idea behind the concept is to create [...]

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Need marketing advice? Read a book!

09.24.2010

It’s tough to spend your non-billable time online when those intervals are filled with books. As you may know, aside from occasional book reviews, I’ve been pointing your attention to three crowdsourced, co-created, volumes: “The Portland Bottom Line” “Our Portland Story” “The Age of Conversation” It so happens that this past week was pretty eventful [...]

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Are you a pitcher or a teacher?

03.29.2010
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I see this at professional development events all the time: A speaker gets asked to share her opinion, expertise, experience, or other kinds of wisdom, and what the audience hears instead is a pitch – for the speaker herself, for her product, or her company. I’m sure you’ve experienced it yourself, and it probably made [...]

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Review: “Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation”

01.08.2010

If a company truly wishes to satisfy its customers’ needs and does its due diligence in market research, social and cultural factors will emerge as critical. To say that a company’s success is tethered to its ability to detect and adapt to changes in broader culture may seem redundant. Yet that’s part of the argument [...]

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The Velvet Revolution and the power of symbols

11.17.2009

Twenty years ago today, a peaceful revolution swept over Czechoslovakia, the country of my birth, launching the overthrow of the communist government and continuing the wave of events triggered by the fall of the Berlin Wall. I turned 13 that winter; the event remains the formative macro-historic event of my life. Aside from the emotions [...]

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What do you care about? On communicating community involvement

10.28.2009

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” —Theodore Roosevelt Alice Tang used this quote in her question at yesterday’s Entrepreneurs Foundation of the Northwest luncheon workshop “Maximizing the impact of your community involvement through PR”. I co-presented with Renee Spears from Rose City Mortgage Specialists, who provided the [...]

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