So, you are Boston Pizza trying to both increase brand awareness and inspire customer loyalty. The Stanley Cup finals pit the Vancouver Canucks against the Boston Bruins. Ironically, you are a Canadian company, and are now suffering from your brand strategy of being perceived as Bostonian. You may be regretting …
Tips to Inspire and Keep Customers, Innovation Mistakes and Ad History
@1day1brand top tweets for the week ending June 3, 2011. How Not to Innovate Five Mistaken Beliefs Business Leaders Have About Innovation – http://ow.ly/55SIK The Economics of Customer Retention Should I try to Keep An Angry Customer or Cut My Losses- http://ow.ly/59DWH Restoration Hardware Efforts to Inspire Customers and Create …
Do I have a brand?
Brand is a word that has many meanings. It can mean as little as an identifiable trademark (a name or logo) or it can be used to describe an entire business. When it comes to savvy marketing what is key is that it is an idea that exists in the …
What You Missed on Twitter This Week
@1day1brand top tweets for the week ending May 27, 2011. The speed of information dissemination has accelerated. Keeping up can be a breathless activity. To help keep up on how branding can help your business, Distility @1day1brand offers a recap of this week’s top @1day1brand tweets. Oprah Brand Lessons What …
An Authentic Brand Motivates Employees Better Than Money
Human resource experts, academics, business leaders and writers have researched and written extensively on the power of purpose as a motivator for employee performance. In fact, Daniel Pink in his book Drive posits that the carrot and stick approach — where money is used as both carrot and stick — is …
Integrating Winning Strategy: Business Strategy v. Brand Strategy
Distility was very fortunate to have Dean Roger Martin and Assistant Dean Suzanne Spragge of the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, spend an hour with us in the Distility Lab this week. The visit exceeded expectations since not only was it immensely gratifying to have positive feedback on …
Building a Better Brand Strategy System: The Story of 10days10brands
Participants Achieve Extraordinary Results After New Technology Innovations In March 2010, we set out to improve Distility 1day1brand – our system that allows teams to create clear, honest and compelling brands in one breakthrough day. Our beta test – dubbed “10days10brands” – took ten innovative MaRS technology start-up companies through our …
New Brand Helps XYZ Interactive Technologies Land Key Contract
Stronger Brand Helps Distility 1day1brand Alumni Secure Contract to Develop Prototypes for Multi-Billion Dollar International Client XYZ Interactive Technologies is a start-up research and development company headquartered at the MaRS Discovery District. The company has developed GestureSense technology that will enable you to control all the electronics in your home …
How Profound Medical Created a Brand That Stands Apart
Distility 1day1brand Alumni Receive Angel Funding to Support a Non-Invasive Treatment for Prostate Cancer Profound Medical Inc. is revolutionizing the cure for prostate cancer with a new, non-invasive treatment. Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer among Canadian men, with over 25,000 new diagnoses each year. The current …
Brand Scam: Buying Too Darn Much!
Too many branding vendors bank on the fact that you are lost in the branding quagmire, so they can sell you more than you really need. Less common, but still a concern, is the in-house resource who is going to take your project down the rabbit hole, drawing it out, …