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Tuesday 2nd February
Build A Brand In 30 Days is published in April, but you can pre-order your copy now at the discounted price of just £11.69
If you don’t think the iPad is a brand triumph, then you haven’t understood it
Tuesday 2nd February
Apple's new iPad is a triumphant piece of brand behaviour, notwithstanding its middling-to-negative reception by the techie blogs and media.
Toyota brand has reliability problems
Friday 29th January
Toyota was once firmly linked to the brand idea of reliability. Not today.
Another masterclass in product presentation from Steve Jobs
Friday 29th January
Steve Jobs iPad launch keynote is an Apple classic
Simon Middleton speaks at TEDx on brand as meaning
Sunday 24th January
One of the UK's first TEDx conferences took place at The Gulbenkian Theatre at University of Kent, Canterbury in January 2010. Simon Middleton was invited to speak about brand as meaning.
Hemsby and the power of a big idea
Thursday 21st January
When I started working with the little Norfolk seaside resort of Hemsby & Newport a few months ago, a number of people questioned whether it was possible to turn around the reputation of a little-known resort in a short time, with any sort of real impact. But with virtually no budget and from a relatively unpromising start, this little resort has achieved a remarkable change in its profile and brand image.
You are the brand
Thursday 21st January
In today’s world we are surrounded by brands of every shape, size and kind and they all use the secret rules of branding to get us to become interested in them, to learn to love them, to buy their goods and services, and even to become advocates for them – singing their praises to our friends and families.
The Brand Effect comes to Hemsby
Tuesday 19th January
A short trailer for the special episode of The Brand Effect which is focused exclusively on my brand work with the Norfolk resort of Hemsby.
Anglia TV covers Hemsby brand story
Tuesday 19th January
This coverage dates from last summer but a number of people have asked me about the origins of the Hemsby Viking brand communication effort.
Caveat
This is an occasional blog... not a day by day or week by week one. Please forgive me if it's not always up to date. It just means I'm doing something else, probably for a client. By and large the pieces aren't time-critical. Some of them were published originally on another of my websites. I hope you'll find something of interest. Thanks for reading.
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