What’s your favorite crazy brand partnership? Please share! I just learned this morning that Peeps teamed up with Pepsi last year and that one strikes me as gagalicious. Not the good kind!!
What Lurks Beneath
What Lurks Beneath When Evaluating Names? I’ve been studying a lot of Behavioral Economics lately and it points towards how influenced we are by the mental shortcuts that make our decision-making easier. It’s incredible, and a little daunting, to think about all the factors that are in play when it comes to evaluating a brand name.
Does This Name Suck? Nope
What do YOU think? Is Zappo’s a great name or does it suck? In this video we take the famous online shoe retailer through our TRUE filter to determine whether the name sucks.
Tall, Grande, Venti
A BIG TIP for pricing your services or products! You may have heard that you should offer three different pricing levels. But you probably haven’t heard about the right order to present them in. Behavioral Economics teaches us that we should present them in a counterintuitive order, with the most expensive item going first.
Better Way to Communicate
You already know that you need to learn as much as you can about your customers or consumers. Here’s another tidbit to look out for, courtesy of the brilliant William Leach and his powerful book Marketing To Mindstates.
Words Have Power
Naming something is an awesome responsibility. Words have power and naming something allows us to understand its essence and remember it. It calls its meaning into being.
Sense of Place
Why is knowing where your wine, or even beer or scotch, comes from so important? People claim it has to do with the taste. But we think there’s something more to it — around how we’re amassing knowledge to build our own identities.
Far Future Trends
What do you know about the future your brand must navigate? Our advice to you is to swim in the in-betweens! We’ve been doing a lot of “far future” trends work recently at BrandTrue, which has a focus on what might happen five years out and further.
Adding Power to Your Name
How can you add more power to a brand name? By leveraging the generic descriptor that follows the brand name to enhance your communication.
