Editor's comment: Bold brands set creativity free
16 Jun 2010 | by Gareth Jones
Marketers need to be a lot bolder if they want to create truly distinctive brands.
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It's not a word that sits naturally in the brash world of advertising. But as the global economy stumbles forward, humility is the concept brand owners must embrace to engage with the consumers on whose patronage they depend. Euro RSCG's Russ Lidstone explains.
Marketers need to be a lot bolder if they want to create truly distinctive brands.
It doesn't take cunning tactics to foist a brand into consumer conversation, just basic brand strategy.
Marketers should fully engage their critical faculties and interrogate researchers more carefully.
Brands that routinely rely on their customers to work for nothing could be in for a rude awakening.
Those of you lucky enough to have made it into Marketing's Power 100 this year have particular cause to celebrate. Not only are you among the elite few to have made it to the top at a time of unprecedented upheaval, you are also pioneers at a new frontier of communications.
The reputation of your brand is at the mercy of the success or failure of the chain of supply behind it.
Those seeking a 19th-century precedent for Tesco's ubiquity should look to the once-mighty Co-op.
Brands seeking to challenge a 'big two' need to find strategies that will build loyalty and recognition.
The emotional bonding that is crucial to any brand's success cannot be built using metrics alone.