Archive for November, 2004

The Origin of a Brand!

Confused about what a Brand is? Is it a mark or a name or an advertisement? What is Brand Equity? Equity, eh…that sounds like a finacial term to you? 
If you are new to Marketing and dazed by dozens of terms that many writers use interchangeably, read my story below. I have created this story just […]

How does one create a Brand ?

Too many managers attribute Brand Building to flaky concepts like Positioning, Brand Relevance, Brand Vitality and so on. The more sophisticated will talk about Optimised TRPs and Media-Mix Modelling, or whatever. These terms sound grand and edifying to the human spirit, but in practice, mean little else. 
In some of my most rigorous training in Sales […]

Every brand manager’s encyclopedia for kindling creativity. List of “Fictional” brand names from the most trusted source for inspirations - MOVIES. A fairly comprehensive list and covers all categories. This can also become a source of inspiration for a quiz programme. Someone overhearing me? 
This brings to mind another concept in Marketing called “In Film Advertising”. […]

Marketing to Engineers

Came across this article about marketing to engineers. Having been in R&D myself, I tend to agree with points mentioned in the article except for point #1 (Engineers look down on advertising and advertising people, for the most part).
Engineers tend to be primarily driven by logic and of course there is a logic behind all […]




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