Brand Extension: Today’s Default Strategy
When I’m not modelling the very latest sartorial gentleman’s fashion for you among the posts of Branding Strategy Insider, my day job involves teaching MBAs about branding.
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When I’m not modelling the very latest sartorial gentleman’s fashion for you among the posts of Branding Strategy Insider, my day job involves teaching MBAs about branding.
Some years ago, I wrote a book titled Big Brands. Big Trouble. One chapter was “The Bigger They Are, the Harder to Manage.”
It has been quite a decade for Tommy Hilfiger. During the 90s, it seemed his brand could do no wrong. The business experienced meteoric growth and, by 2000, was generating $2bn in worldwide sales.
When integrating your brand marketing efforts, here are 28 mechanisms you will find useful:
"… at the heart of an effective creative philosophy is the belief that nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature, what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action, even though his language so often camouflages what really motivates him. For if you know these things about [a] man, you can touch him at the core of his being." -Bill Bernbach, in a speech to the American Association of Advertising ...