Tag Archives: Marketing

Kiss me, I’m Irish

Posted on March 16, 2015 by svirtue72

Ok, ok. It’s 3 year’s old but I love it. The creative folks at Guinness sell more beer. Do they need to? The internet tells me that they sell 1.5 billion litres of beer a year, so likely not. But … Continue reading →

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Big Mac Attack

Posted on November 5, 2012 by svirtue72

Increasingly, the ideals of Corporate Social Responsiblity (CSR) have penetrated workplace in some pretty unexpected ways. After 40 years in the business world, the acronym typical suggests that organizations have some level of social consciousness. Born in the 1960’s an … Continue reading →

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Branding – Continued

Posted on May 30, 2012 by svirtue72

There’s a great post on Forbes.com today about Branding “Why A Brand Matters” that discusses the nuances of brand and I think highlights the significance that branding will play in competitive markets through the next decade. Author Lois Geller notes … Continue reading →

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What is a Brand?

Posted on May 28, 2012 by svirtue72

Everything you ever wanted to know about branding, right here – in what I think is the best ‘what the hell is a brand’ presentation I’ve seen in a long time. The Brand Gap Book – is a brilliant book … Continue reading →

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how your brand lives part deux

Posted on April 29, 2012 by svirtue72

In a previous post about how your brand lives, I used a pragmatic example of the impact of something fairly basic (for example how a service truck’s driving behaviour represents your brand). Today I had to gather some materials from … Continue reading →

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New Era of Advertising 2

Posted on June 16, 2011 by svirtue72

I couldn’t let this one go without comment – hilarious – not sure its the best sports commercial I’ve ever seen but a fantastic bit of video, done right, for the right reasons. Professional Golfers – Ben Crane, Bubba Watson, … Continue reading →

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Being Social… Media

Posted on June 16, 2011 by svirtue72

This is a well done video.  Great insights about living social media and the power of medium to build brand and engage consumers. This was created by an agency in Toronto called Social Scratch – with three really interesting definitions … Continue reading →

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Lipstick on a pig

Posted on June 2, 2011 by svirtue72

What I’ve learned in the past two decades as a marketing and communications professional returns fundamentally to a basic principle – you must have good content.  Anything short of solid content is just “lipstick on a pig” in my view. … Continue reading →

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Why?

Posted on March 7, 2011 by svirtue72

I hate to start off my post’s by simply capitalizing on someone else’s intellectual capital, however I felt it a great point of departure. When I was a kid, I never asked ‘how’ or ‘what’ but rather, why. I wanted … Continue reading →

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