The Megaproblem of Megabranding And How to Force a CEO to Catch It

September 10, 2008

No doubt, in the future most of CEOs of successful companies will have a business blog. But before that they must come up with the biggest problem in conglomerate’s world – megabranding. If you have two brands, for which you will stand for? I mean, for which you will create a personal business blog? What [...]

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How a Business Blog Forces to Think About Strategy: a Disaster of the New ThinkPad

August 14, 2008

One of the good reasons to start a business blog is because it helps to think about strategy. But recently I was convinced that it helps not only to think about strategy but also helps to keep strategy unchanged. Unchanged from short term marketing fallacies. There is a story. Strategies of the two legendary laptop [...]

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Freelance Blog Coaches and Proofreaders Are Needed!

July 18, 2008

In my consulting practice I am working with high-level managers, often CEOs on marketing strategy issues in web 2.0 age. One of the main consequences of my consulting is establishing of a business blog. (What is the difference between business blog and other kind of blogs? The answer is in my free e-book ”The New [...]

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In Future Most CEOs Will Have a Business Blog

June 22, 2008

I am sure that in the future most CEOs will have a blog. A business blog. More, I am sure that for a number of companies blogging will be mandatory for a daily job of a CEO or a General Manager. To run a business blog – it will be a standard requirement in hiring [...]

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Can You Have an Editor of Your Business Blog?

May 26, 2008

In most cases, yes. Recently David Meerman Scott ignited a great discussion when he wrote the post ”Does Harvard Business School know what a blog is?” about a hot topic in business blogging land. It’s a very interesting discussion going on there, please check not only the post, but the comments too. For those who [...]

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A New E-book “The New Rules of Business Blogs” Is Now Released!

April 23, 2008

Web is changing rapidly. Rules that were appreciated two years ago, today may be obsolete. But do we always recognize these changes? For example blogs diverged in few categories – usual blogs, problogs, celebrity blogs, corporate blogs, business blogs. But we still apply the same rules to all of them. What a mistake! Take for [...]

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Why a CEO Must Blog

March 8, 2008

A very straightforward question. Why a CEO must blog? There are two reasons that made the CEO blogging mandatory from the marketing point of view. First, a CEO is the best spokesperson of every company OK, the founder is the best spokesperson of every company, but if the one is not with the company anymore, [...]

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David Packard Must Receive The Nobel Prize

November 10, 2007

Marketing is too important to be left to marketing people For only this one quote David Packard must receive the Nobel Prize in Economics, or, at least, forever must be in Management Hall of Fame. Forever. Period. Too often General Managers are too busy with shareholders, unions, various meetings, production issues. Too little time General [...]

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Don Norman Missed the Essence of Buying

August 13, 2007

Don Norman, the famous author of Emotional Design: Why we love (or hate) everyday things, The Design of Everyday Things and few others recently wrote a column for CACM called Simplicity Is Highly Overrated. The main point of his article is that customers are buying complex LG or Samsung refrigerators or washing machines instead of [...]

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David Meerman Scott did it Again!

June 11, 2007

I just received a copy of the new David’s book The New Rules of Marketing and PR, an was stunned. He did it again! After writing one of the most successful e-books in history The new rules of PR he expanded it to a fine hardcover. Why every General Manager should read this one? Simple [...]

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