Most people don't know it yet, but branding is dead.
Sure, we need to know about the stuff we want to buy, but the billions of dollars spent on logos, sponsorships, and jingles have little, if anything, to do with actual consumer behavior. For example:

-Dinosaur-headed execs in Microsoft ads didn't help sell software.
-Citibank's artsy "live richly" billboards didn't prompt a single new account.
-United Airlines' animated TV commercials didn't fill more seats on airplanes.
As branding guru Jonathan Baskin reveals, modern consumers are harder to find, more difficult to...

Most people don't know it yet, but branding is dead. Of course, we need to know about the things we want to buy, but the billions of pounds spent on logos, sponsorships, and jingles have little - if anything - to do with consumer behaviour. For example:

-Dinosaur-headed execs in Microsoft ads didn't help sell software.
-Citibank's artsy "live richly" billboards didn't prompt a single new account.
-United Airlines' animated TV commercials didn't fill more seats on airplanes.

In Branding Only Works on Cattle, branding guru Jonathan Salem Baskin...

This book is your resource and guide for better branding and marketing in 2010, culled from studies of 500+ companies worldwide, analysis in 260 essays on the award-winning Dim Bulb blog, and then distilled and refined to deliver:

- 9 strategic trends that challenge the conventional wisdom
- 86 tactical ideas you can start use tomorrow
- 101 essays that add nuance, insight, and humor
- Hundreds of tidbits, challenges, and possibilities for you to ponder
- Useful indices by industry category and name, to make the book useful all year long

In addition to his blog,...