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Trendwatching.com’s ‘Clean slate brands’ : Newer, better, faster, cleaner?

April’s trendwatching.com report explores the profound shift in consumer behaviour towards unproven and unknown brands, documenting the rise of Clean Slate Brands. The concept of the Clean Slate Brand is similar to that of Newism (link to previous review of this concept) a phenomenon that describes consumers lavishing their attention, love and trust to newer, […]

The prologue…

Social media marketing continues to be a challenge for businesses around Australia as many fail to grasp success and engagement in this fast moving and challenging arena. In the first of a sequel of articles to be revealed on BRW, Branding Expert Mark Ritson suggests that social media is being over represented and over sold […]

Does crowdsourcing product names result in trouble?

Crowdsourcing is everywhere…yet just how effective is it? Laurel Sutton’s recent article on Fast Company states that “Crowdsourcing works for funding creative projects or hiring someone to paint your bedroom but she believes that you’re asking for trouble if you use it to name a product.” In theory, crowdsourcing creativity sounds the ultimate win-win situation, providing […]

Pinkification…

Many products are designed – rightly or wrongly – for women in the Australian and overseas market. While many of these products go unnoticed, recently a number of them have received significant backlash, so why is it that brand managers continue to push ‘for her’ products? Delicate shapes, pastel tones and special additions specifically devised […]

Emotional intelligence just became that little bit ‘smarter’!

Gone are the days where emotional intuition is an essential tool for employers, as technology again provides a solution and takes the hard work out of what is one of the most common workplace disruptions – emotion! Two leading technology companies, the UK’s El Technologies and Soma Analytics from Germany, have joined forces to create […]