Category Archives: Branding

Is Advertising Worth the Investment?

1️⃣ Increased Visibility
2️⃣ Targeted Reach
3️⃣ Brand Awareness
4️⃣ Boost Sales
5️⃣ Competitive Edge

Have you tried advertising for your business? Share your experiences or questions in the comments! Let’s discuss the role of advertising in amplifying business success. 🌟💼

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Unlocking Customer Insights: Do You Truly Know What They Want?

Understanding your customers/clients goes beyond just knowing their names and basic demographics. It’s about comprehending their needs, desires, and pain points. 🤔

How well do you know what they truly want? Listen closely to their feedback, engage in meaningful conversations, and conduct interviews to unravel their preferences and expectations, follow them on social media and see what they post. Surveys rarely work. Interview!

Remember, it’s not always what you think they need; sometimes, it’s what they’re longing for that truly matters.

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Some World War II POWs Escaped With Help From Bicycle Playing Cards

By Robert Klara

Shuffled by sharks and snuck in by spies, this deck has been the standard American since 1881

Bicycle Playing Cards with hidden maps of Germany to help POWs escape during WWII.

Of the roughly 94,000 U.S. soldiers who became prisoners of war in Germany during World War II, an especially unfortunate several hundred wound up in a camp called Oflag IV-C, better known as Colditz Castle, a 12th-century stone fortress built atop a 250-foot cliff in Saxony. The Germans believed that escape from Colditz was impossible.

But it was possible, thanks to Bicycle playing cards.

Unbeknownst to the Wehrmacht, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (precursor to the CIA) and British Special Operations Executive had secretly commissioned the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC) to create top-secret Bicycle-brand decks—spirited in by the Red Cross—where the cards could be peeled apart to reveal miniature maps of Germany.

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She’s Not Real…. But ‘It’ Has Plenty of Followers

Her fans think they found true love — but she’s not real. 

Milla Sofia is an artificial intelligence-generated influencer whose sultry photos on Twitter and TikTok are racking up thousands of likes from deluded social media users, Futurism reported.

“[I’m a] 19-year-old virtual girl from Helsinki Finland. I was made by AI. Check my other social media accounts from the link below,” reads the Twitter bio on Sofia’s account. 

Sofia, who goes by @AiModelMilla on her verified Twitter account, is certifiably fake, yet her 7,790 followers can’t help but drool over bikini photos of her in Greece.

“Still in Santorini, and I’m ‘Greek’-ing out over how to leave this paradise!” reads a punny tweet from July 19 with over 35,000 views and 2,000 likes.

‘Wow, look at you, so stunningly beautiful with a gorgeous smile,” writes one Twitter user.

Is digital beauty also only skin deep?

Do most of her followers know? What do you think?

See More [NY Post]

Business Idea? 4 Tips to Make it Successful

Build Your Brand – 1 min.

The first work day of 2023 is today for most and many are setting goals for the year.

Start strong! Your goals and ideas will always work better when you collaborate with top performers. Think about all of your past successes. Did you do it alone? Probably not. Build your brand! Here are tips to help you do that: Design, Content, Marketing Strategy, Reliable Team

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Brand Storytelling LinkedIn Group Reaches 8,000 Members

By R. Michael Brown

Sound ON!

Congratulations for topping 8,000 members today in the #BrandStorytelling #LinkedIn Group I founded.

Brand Storytelling and Journalism in a hot topic now for public relations and marketing.

Join us! [LinkedIn Group: Brand Storytelling & Journalism]

BrandJournalism #CorporateCommunications #PublicRelations #marketing #MarketingCommunication

Don’t Do This To Customers

If your #app or #website forces your #customers to become an IT analyst to get logged in, you have #failed. Do you realize what that does to your #brand?