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March 18, 2021 andreweverett360

RAND on Entrepreneurship in America

Lisa Abraham and Benjamin K. Master wrote an article for RAND Corporation titled Entrepreneurship in America. Continue reading “RAND on Entrepreneurship in America” →

March 13, 2021March 13, 2021 andreweverett360

Corporate values are negatively correlated with reality

Donald Sull, Stefano Turconi, and Charles Sull wrote an article from MIT Sloan Management Review titled When It Comes to Culture, Does Your Company Walk the Talk? (July 21, 2020). Continue reading “Corporate values are negatively correlated with reality” →

March 2, 2021March 20, 2021 andreweverett360

Some thoughts on brand equity

I strongly believe that brand equity is underappreciated in many C-suites. I have commented numerous times on Twitter when companies announce plans to make gratuitous changes which erode or destroy brand equity. Continue reading “Some thoughts on brand equity” →

February 28, 2021 andreweverett360

Distinctive brand assets

WARC published an article titled WARC from Home: Distinctive brand assets – what they are and why they matter. Continue reading “Distinctive brand assets” →

February 24, 2021 andreweverett360

psychology and baseball

Joe Lemire wrote a New York Times article titled This Book Is Not About Baseball. But Baseball Teams Swear by It. Continue reading “psychology and baseball” →

February 21, 2021February 22, 2021 andreweverett360

Giles Edwards interviews analytics expert Andrew Willshire

Giles Edwards interviewed Andrew Willshire. 1 hour. Listen here.  The discussion included data analysis and continuous learning, recency theory, systems thinking, ROI and diminishing returns, and more. Continue reading “Giles Edwards interviews analytics expert Andrew Willshire” →

February 20, 2021 andreweverett360

Advertising Recency

Erwin Ephron (1934-2013) wrote an article titled Recency Planning, originally published March 18, 1998, in his Media Week column called The Blunt Pencil. Continue reading “Advertising Recency” →

February 20, 2021April 13, 2024 andreweverett360

Russell Ackoff Beyond Continual Improvement

If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk… 12-minute video from 1994. Rough transcript follows.

Continue reading “Russell Ackoff Beyond Continual Improvement” →

February 18, 2021 andreweverett360

Mark Ritson on Marketing Planning

Mark Ritson wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Planning for marketing planning: 14 steps to an effective presentation. Continue reading “Mark Ritson on Marketing Planning” →

February 18, 2021February 15, 2021 andreweverett360

Mark Ritson on the folly of demographic segmentation

Mark Ritson retweeted a Kantar post, showing survey results by generation, with roughly equal results across all ages.  “This just proves (again) that demographic segmentation is balls. if we sliced the data by star sign it would almost be as useful.”

Some tweets from the thread: Continue reading “Mark Ritson on the folly of demographic segmentation” →

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