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Shark Vision Can Bite Your PR Effort

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Organizations sometimes behave like sharks when it comes to getting their message out: They do a great job of looking ahead to the next big project, but never back at their existing materials.

Do you have shark vision?

Do you have shark vision?

This problem has been on my mind recently because I keep seeing otherwise well-run organizations relying on inaccurate websites, brochures and collateral material to tell their stories. Facts change, but these once-perfect marketing vehicles do not. No longer does the company have 47 stores, or achieve a 15 percent recycling rate, or sell XYZ product.

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Can GM Perform Public Relations Jujitsu?

Friday, July 10th, 2009

The other day, I told somebody that a particular company was small, “no General Motors.”

Now, I realized right away that this phrase has kind of lost its punch, and I switched it over to Wal-Mart, the biggest corporation in the world. General Motors, of course, is just a shadow of its once world-dominating self.

But GM is trying to rebuild. Just this morning, the corporation crawled out of bankruptcy court from the financial wreckage and debt that this once-great company had become.

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Branding: Search for the Essential

Friday, June 19th, 2009

In junior high, we did science experiments that distilled one liquid from another, leaving us with highly concentrated substances that we’d weigh and measure and use for other experiments.

Branding is a lot like that. It requires you to break down something – a product, business, political candidate – to its essence.

We’ve been doing a lot of that lately, working to create positioning statements and brand books that capture the most-important aspects of our clients’ operations, starting with 25- and 50-word statements and a tagline.

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