Focus on customers, not on your brand

on 10 Apr, 2008 in america, business, ideas, pics, wonder why | 1 Comment

Last night while looking for chocolate chip ice-cream, I couldn’t help but notice this perfect example of a “brand blinding the eyes of the manager so much that she neglects customers”. Take a look at the graters ice cream cups.

Can you identify vanilla from chocolate chip from strawberry when all cups look like this. I [...]

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Few good Indian print ads - horlicks, maggi, zandu balm and head & shoulders

on 3 Apr, 2008 in advertising, business, ideas | 1 Comment

Most of the time doing a print advertisement is much more difficult than doing a normal video ad, the creativity is limited to a rectangle on the paper and no matter how much effort is spent on the ad, your audience may not even look at it for more than a split second. Only very [...]

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Did you see the moon-walking bear? - nice ad

on 24 Mar, 2008 in advertising, business, wonder why | 1 Comment

Transport for London’s new advertising campaign to increase the safety of cycle travel in London is pretty innovative, watch the ad here (totally safe for work, so go ahead and watch):

But there is another important lesson in the ad, as Seth Godin suggested, way too many marketers wanted us to count the passes and let [...]

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