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James Forr

What brands can learn from Vin and Kim

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Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 What brands can learn from Vin and Kim The Wall Street Journal has some social media advice for Corporate America.  The advice: learn from celebrities. Celebrities who use social…
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Redefining Under Armour

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Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Redefining Under Armour A common client problem with which we are challenged is how to make a brand relevant to a new segment of consumers. Under Armour, traditionally known…
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Carrot gold

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The Harvard Business Review features an instructive article from the CEO of Bolthouse Farms – the company (now part of Campbell’s) that has successfully re-positioned its brand of baby carrots.…
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Making strides

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The latest Deep Dives focuses on the promises and shortcomings of neuromarketing.  Brain scanning is still not fully reliable. This is true not only in marketing – it is simply…
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Voices in our head

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Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Olson Zaltman's Nick Kimminau shares an article from The Guardian that describes the phenomenon of “inner speech.”  We are talking to ourselves (in our heads) all the time. As…
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The Foodie Generation

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A thought-provoking Q&A with author Eve Turow appears in The Atlantic.  The topic is Millennials’ obsession with food. Turow suggests that, thanks in large part to technology, food is playing…
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In the Navy…

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A social media campaign from the U.S. Navy called Project Architeuthis has won major social media awards this year, including the WARC Social Strategy Award and Shorty Awards for Best…
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Hiiii!

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From OZ's Jessica Ames, a summary of research conducted in Japan which suggests that neurotic people tend to see faces in things. It is evolutionary. People who are tense and…
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