Brand Strategy - Branding Strategy Insider

One of the things that makes marketing advice sound so specious, at times, is when the marketing advice dished up is considered newly insightful, but is, in reality, just a description of the eternal obvious, the “greens fees,” the “table stakes.” When The Wall Street Journal ran an article titled, “Restaurant Executives Tell Us How They Get Customers When Times Are Hard,” you might have been expecting some real insights. You might have expected some...

In the early 2010s, entrepreneur Stewart Butterfield and his team of developers were building an online game called Glitch. Butterfield’s team eventually decided to shut Glitch down after it struggled to gain traction with users over years of effort.