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December 3, 2008 • Blog • 7 comments

Brandtology – The World’s First 24×7 Managed Services Provider

As social media platforms and applications gain mainstream prominence, organisations should pay increasing attention to what people are saying about them online. We have seen in recent weeks how social media can either result in a lot of good or a lot of harm. Being oblivious to what your stakeholders think is probably the last thing to do, especially in these times when every customer relationship counts.

This is where social media monitoring, intelligence and participation comes in.

Here’s What You Get for $50,000…

September 10, 2008 • Blog • 1 comment

BrandHub founder Shauna with Adrian New

Are sport sponsorships worth their salt? What do companies like VISA, Lenovo and Standard Chartered get when they help bankroll sporting competitions?

I found out the answers to the above and more when I attended Brandhub’s exclusive BrandXchange – a quarterly exchange with senior marketers in Asia. Hosted by Brandhub’s founder Shauna Li Roolvink, the session featured Adrian New, Senior Vice President of World Sport Group (WSG) which is a specialist in sports sponsorship marketing.

Singapore is World’s Number One Brand

August 28, 2008 • Public Relations • 2 comments

Courtesy of Christopher Chan

Yesterday, I flipped through My Paper and read that Singapore has hit the top spot in East West Communications global survey.

According to the report, all 192 countries in the United Nations together with another eight which were not are included in the survey. The company has also analysed five million references to the 200 countries or regions. These references are found in about 400,000 news articles found in 38 leading global media sources in the second quarter this year.

I Got a Free Bus Ride!!

August 26, 2008 • Blog • 11 comments

Every once in a while, you come across a clever bit of marketing which makes you smile. That’s what happened to me today as I took my regular bus 166 back home.

At first glance, it looks like any regular branded bus. Anybody can tell that Great Eastern Life is celebrating its 100th birthday.

Neighbourhood Branding

April 20, 2008 • Blog • 12 comments

Can we give our HDB estates more heart and soul?

Read this excellent post on Branding Insider about Place Branding and how it is moving into smaller municipalities and towns in the United States. It triggered off this idea about the branding of residential communities in Singapore.

What if we brand each and every one of our estates in Singapore? In other words, give them a greater individual identity, uniqueness, colour and point of differentiation. After all, Singapore, though tiny, isn’t just a homogeneous and uniform mass. It would be awesome, wouldn’t it?

A Rose By Any Other Name?

December 1, 2007 • Blog • 2 comments

Courtesy of krazykid933

Names have always been an important part of marketing (or life for that matter). How essential are they in the art and science of branding? Very much so.

Since time immemorial, organisations have agonised over what they should name their company, products, and services. Which one would resonate with their target audiences better?

Branding in a Periodic Table

October 11, 2007 • Blog • no comments

Once in a while, you stumble across something really neat that you want to share with everybody. Today I came across this Branding Periodic Table by Kolbrener which is really neat and concise. It tabulates the key definitions in the advertising, marcoms and branding world in a neat “periodic table” format which helps to make it easier for anybody to capture the different terms at a glance.

Built by Kolbrener, corporate branding experts

Of course, I would add that just knowing the terms themselves ain’t enough to make you a branding expert. Still, its a good start…

Branding Non-profits

July 29, 2007 • Blog • 5 comments

The Salvation Army is one of the world’s most recognised non-profit brand.

In this day and age, non-profit organisations like charities, trade associations, special interest groups, and clubs can ill afford to ignore branding. To reach a critical sized audience and membership, you need systems and processes to be in place. You need to also market your organisation for it to gain greater clout and reach so that it can better achieve its purpose. Just passion alone would not cut it.

Branding Insider, one of my favourite references for branding thoughts, highlighted 7 points of branding non-profit organisations.

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