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What do you notice?

What do you notice about the homepages of the fastest growing companies in the world?

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My 2¢: Have a simple homepage.
Jan 10, 2014

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Why do you need to focus on building your brand?

The short answer:

1. Consumers choose brand-name products over anonymous products. And not by a small margin.

2. Products/services have life cycles. Brands outlive products.

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Common Thinking = Common Results = Common Life.

Let’s say you own a dry cleaning business.
Question: What business are you in? The common answer is the dry cleaning business.

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What is it?

What’s your unfair advantage?

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An authentic brand is…

An authentic brand is a doer.

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The important part of breakthrough is…

Have you seen this Smart ForTwo commercial?

The message: taking this car into the wilderness makes as much sense as city folks who drive hulking SUVs. continue reading

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Why do people park ten blocks away from a hot nightclub?

Question: why do people park ten blocks away from a hot nightclub, step over puddles of you-know-what in its bathrooms, pay three times more for a drink continue reading

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What’s so great about being typical?

My 2¢:
Taste Younique. People will talk.

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Why is Hyundai’s premium sedan, the Equus, a tough sell?

The folks at cars.com recently reported that, “Hyundai’s premium sedan, the Equus, continue reading

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Sharing beats “keywords.”

Instead of trying to trick machines, why not tell better stories? You know that sharing beats “keywords,” right?

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