Who owns the hotel bible brand?
How can any business own their product category like the Gideons own the hotel bible category?
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Hotel Bibles?
December 21, 2010Free Small Business Commercials: I Love Local Commercials
December 2, 2009I came across an interesting small business marketing site “I Love Local Commercials”.
Two guys – Rhett and Link – ask their site’s visitors to nominate a small business to win a free commercial produced by their company ILoveLocalCommercials.com.
So they actually don’t give away a free commercials to every small business owner who asks – the small buisness owner has to win first.
How do Rhett and Link do it?
Through sponsorship by a company called Microbilt.
I Love Local Commercials
The concept of giving away free commercials which is really a twist on the “register to win a prize” tactic is subtle yet innovative.
I am not sure what direct return on investment Microbilt has received from their sponsorship of ILoveLocalCommercials.com
However, Microbilt most certainly has established their brand name as a result of their sponsorship.
Rhett and Link’s work like the commercial below also appears to be effective for the medium.
A question I have for Rhett and Link is – how come they don’t advertise and sell their commercial production services as well?
Borrowed and Blended Brand Images
January 16, 2009I don’t know what to think of the following two brand images which appear strikingly similar to each other.
Barack Obama Twitter
Barack Obama
Pepsi
Refresh Everything – Pepsi.
Which brand has borrowed and blended their image from the other?
Linkedin Plus Twitter Equals Who Knows What?
November 1, 2008I just added my Twitter account into my Linkedin account profile after noticing Owen Frager had added it to his “what he is working on” Linkedin updates.
Twitter TimCohn
Pretty cool Owen…
Linkedin TimCohn
I had been meaning for some time to write about the importance of “owning and controlling your brand” whether personal or corporate in the most promising emerging social platforms for both offensive and defensive purposes
Appropriately, I first became acquainted with Owen after having posted on Domain King Rick Schwartz’ blog
Name.com
about how I missed the first offensive opportunity to control “my personal brand” – albeit my not so unique name – on that newfangled social platform called the world wide web way back in 1996.
Tim Cohn
Granted, its hard to gauge in advance which social platforms will have the largest audience and reach after filtering out all their noise.
However, not registering your “brand” in their databases early on can lead to remorse later on.
If you haven’t done so already, register your own brandname.com / companyname.com and create accounts for the same names in MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr – if you can…
The same holds true for individuals.
Sign up for a Linkedin account under your personal brand: your name.
Don’t be disappointed though if you can’t. If yours is a common name – it surely has long since been registered.
Registering your brands with these sites may not make you any money in the short term, but if and when social media platforms ever figure out how to make money for themselves let alone for their advertisers and users, wouldn’t it be better for you to control your brand name(s) on the most successful social media sites instead of someone else?
Brand Lift through iGoogle Artists Themes
April 30, 2008Google re-introduce an expanded roster of Artist Themes for iGoogle.
What if you could have your brand’s most loyal customers display your brand image alongside Google’s in your customer’s browser’s homepage?
Can you say Brand Lift?
Innovative earlier adopters like Dolce & Gabbana, Philippe Starck, Diane von Furstenberg (I guess Mr. Diller approves) the Beastie Boys and even Lance Armstrong have already taken the leap.
See for yourself in this YouTube video montage showcasing 68 original iGoogle themes by world-class artists:
Find more Google iGoogle Artist themes at Google.com
iGoogle Artist Theme
iGoogle Artists Themes
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