Τρίτη 26 Ιουλίου 2016

Reine: Ένα χωριό κάτω από το βόρειο σέλας

Reine: Ένα χωριό κάτω από το βόρειο σέλας: Ο φωτογράφος Javier de la Torre αψηφώντας τις χαμηλές θερμοκρασίες του Αρκτικού Κύκλου μοιράζεται μέσα από τις εικόνες του μία αξέχαστη εμπειρία.. Αυτ...

Τρίτη 12 Ιουλίου 2016

Caño Cristales: Ένα ουράνιο τόξο από νερό στην Κολομβία

Caño Cristales: Ένα ουράνιο τόξο από νερό στην Κολομβία: Είναι πολύχρωμο, πεντακάθαρο και θεωρείται το ομορφότερο ποτάμι του κόσμου. Βρίσκεται στην Κολομβία, (Σεράνια ντε λα Μακαρένα, Μέτα) κι εκτός από Κάνο...

Brand Different Versus Brand Difference | Branding Strategy Insider

Brand Different Versus Brand Difference | Branding Strategy Insider: Brand differentiation is acknowledged by most as the goal that every marketer should be seeking. But the enthusiasm for the pursuit masks a common misunderstanding – in the context of brand strategy, different and difference are not one and the same.

Παρασκευή 8 Ιουλίου 2016

Πέμπτη 23 Ιουνίου 2016

The Business Model Of Luxury Brands | Branding Strategy Insider

The Business Model Of Luxury Brands | Branding Strategy Insider: Luxury is a business model. This has been empirically fine tuned through time by those luxury brands that dominate the pantheon worldwide: Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci, Hermès, Ferrari, Rolex and so on.

6 Ways To Maintain Brand Continuity | Branding Strategy Insider

6 Ways To Maintain Brand Continuity | Branding Strategy Insider: Six principles are crucial in ensuring that a brand understands its own identity and communicates who it is and why it matters in a consistent way to consumers across time.

Brand Purpose In The Experience Economy | Branding Strategy Insider

Brand Purpose In The Experience Economy | Branding Strategy Insider: Organizations that are ‘on purpose’ in the experience economy do three main things well...

Σάββατο 18 Ιουνίου 2016

The Attack - Strange House

Andromeda - Turn To Dust

Γέρακας Λακωνίας: Το άγνωστο φιόρδ της Ελλάδας

Γέρακας Λακωνίας: Το άγνωστο φιόρδ της Ελλάδας: Σε μία ήσυχη γωνιά στις ανατολικές ακτές της Πελοποννήσου η φύση έδειξε το μεγαλείο της δημιουργώντας ένα φιόρδ μοναδικό στο είδος του στην Ελλάδα. Πρ...

Brands And Trademark Law | Branding Strategy Insider

Brands And Trademark Law | Branding Strategy Insider: As a brand steward, you must be aware of the laws under which legal protection is available for trademarks.

Πέμπτη 16 Ιουνίου 2016

How Emotions Shape Brand Perceptions | Branding Strategy Insider

How Emotions Shape Brand Perceptions | Branding Strategy Insider: ‘A picture is worth a thousand words.’ Cliché, but true. In fact, it’s a cliché because it’s true. A battle between pictures and words is like one between Mike Tyson and Tiny Tim: the picture throws the bigger punch. Consider the following:

The Four Most Powerful Brand Codes | Branding Strategy Insider

The Four Most Powerful Brand Codes | Branding Strategy Insider: How do we recognize a brand? What do consumers see, and how different is that from the ways brands are structured?

Building Brands On What People Value | Branding Strategy Insider

Building Brands On What People Value | Branding Strategy Insider: Given that rewards drive decisions, when we create the content that powers brands, one of the biggest challenges we have is to figure out what our audiences value.

Δευτέρα 13 Ιουνίου 2016

Φάνες Ρόδου: Το χρωματιστό χωριό

Φάνες Ρόδου: Το χρωματιστό χωριό: Μια φορά και ένα καιρό υπήρξε ένα γκρίζο και μουντό χωριό.. όπως γκρίζα και μουντά είναι πολλά χωριά και πόλεις στην Ελλάδα. Όμως μια εμπνευσμένη και...

Κυριακή 12 Ιουνίου 2016

Brands Must Reflect Customer Beliefs | Branding Strategy Insider

Brands Must Reflect Customer Beliefs | Branding Strategy Insider: Every brand needs to make a practice of reflecting beliefs. That’s because everything consumers see in the world gets ‘bent’ through the prism of the values they espouse. With a beliefs strategy consumers no longer think about which brand to buy. Customers are the ‘who’ of brand strategy. A solid, self-sustaining strategy mirrors customers’ preferences. …

Παρασκευή 3 Ιουνίου 2016

The Garden at Kikuya Residence Hagi

The Garden at Kikuya Residence Hagi

The Brain Science Behind Memorable Content | Branding Strategy Insider

The Brain Science Behind Memorable Content | Branding Strategy Insider: Memory’s main purpose is not to help us keep track of the past, but to help us navigate the future. This is a critical understanding for business, because decisions happen in the future…and influencing them is how you drive profits and build brands.

Harnessing The Power Of Brand Archetypes | Branding Strategy Insider

Harnessing The Power Of Brand Archetypes | Branding Strategy Insider: The most famous brand archetype success of all time is also the most documented.

Τετάρτη 1 Ιουνίου 2016

Τρίτη 31 Μαΐου 2016

Brands And The High-Low Pricing Strategy | Branding Strategy Insider

Brands And The High-Low Pricing Strategy | Branding Strategy Insider: Branding Strategy Insider helps marketing oriented leaders and professionals like you build strong brands. BSI readers know, we regularly answer questions from marketers everywhere. Today we hear from Thomas, a CMO from Toronto, Canada who has these questions about pricing strategy. “I am a long time reader and subscriber of Branding Strategy Insider. I’ve searched …

How Brands Create Infectious Communication | Branding Strategy Insider

How Brands Create Infectious Communication | Branding Strategy Insider: Infectious communication is the result of creating such compelling experiences and content that your customers enthusiastically become your best advocates.

How To Evolve An Iconic Brand Campaign | Branding Strategy Insider

How To Evolve An Iconic Brand Campaign | Branding Strategy Insider: Why would a brand replace the world’s most interesting pitch man? Perhaps a better question is how?

Early Summer Kagura

Early Summer Kagura

Τετάρτη 11 Μαΐου 2016

The Last Shadow Puppets - The Element Of Surprise

Wishbone Ash Valediction

8 Marketing Beliefs That Are Hurting Brands | Branding Strategy Insider

8 Marketing Beliefs That Are Hurting Brands | Branding Strategy Insider: What could possibly be leading marketers astray today? Here are eight beliefs that are hurting brands.

Manhole Bridges

Manhole Bridges

Δευτέρα 18 Απριλίου 2016

Bookend Your Customer’s Trust

Bookend Your Customer’s Trust: Every business says that they want their customer's trust but to stand out, build your business around your customer's trust and watch them reward you.

Creating the perfect landing

Creating the perfect landing: If you have a generic “we serve everyone” sort of website, there’s great value in adding some landing pages, especially if you are trying to speak with very specific audiences who have unique needs and interests. Landing pages are ideal if you: Want to target specific audiences with different messaging Offer different products, information or …

Παρασκευή 15 Απριλίου 2016

The Last Shadow Puppets - Miracle Aligner (Official Audio)

Shisa of Taketomi

Shisa of Taketomi

Koshinsha, Nogata

Koshinsha, Nogata

Brands Beware Of The Anti-Targeting Movement | Branding Strategy Insider

Brands Beware Of The Anti-Targeting Movement | Branding Strategy Insider: It is fashionable to believe marketers today should aim for mass market penetration and that segmenting, targeting and positioning are things of the past. For most brands that is a fallacy.

Πέμπτη 14 Απριλίου 2016

Σάββατο 9 Απριλίου 2016

5 Rules For Creating Memorable Brand Experiences | Branding Strategy Insider

5 Rules For Creating Memorable Brand Experiences | Branding Strategy Insider: There are five simple rules for creating a memorable customer experience.

Mistaken Marketers Declare The Sales Funnel Dead | Branding Strategy Insider

Mistaken Marketers Declare The Sales Funnel Dead | Branding Strategy Insider: Reports of the death of the sales funnel are greatly exaggerated. Marketers must still understand how to influence customer journeys towards a purchase.

New Questions Shape The Future Of Brands | Branding Strategy Insider

New Questions Shape The Future Of Brands | Branding Strategy Insider: If brand owners are truly intent on developing brand strategies that cut through, perhaps the best place to start is with new questions. Asking the less obvious might push more brands to think more laterally about their futures.

Sameness Strategy Threatens Brands | Branding Strategy Insider

Sameness Strategy Threatens Brands | Branding Strategy Insider: The irony for brands is that the more you go with what works for others, the less likely those ideas are going to work for you.

Τετάρτη 6 Απριλίου 2016

Πέμπτη 31 Μαρτίου 2016

Τρίτη 29 Μαρτίου 2016

Samsara Blues Experiment - Center Of The Sun

The Myrrors - Warpainting

Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane

Into Dust, Mazzy Star

Revitalization Strategy Offers Hope For Dying Brands | Branding Strategy Insider

Revitalization Strategy Offers Hope For Dying Brands | Branding Strategy Insider: Revitalization requires a nuanced strategy in which the brand first returns to its origins to identify its original brand associations and then leaps back to the present and applies them in a new, contemporary way.

Σάββατο 26 Μαρτίου 2016

Wishbone Ash - Errors of My Way

Wishbone Ash - Persephone

Wishbone Ash - The King Will Come

4 Ways To Successfully Franchise Your Brand | Branding Strategy Insider

4 Ways To Successfully Franchise Your Brand | Branding Strategy Insider: Franchising can be a very powerful way to grow your brand, but it is a way of branding a business that has very specific characteristics and challenges.

Every Brand Story Must Reflect Brand Values | Branding Strategy Insider

Every Brand Story Must Reflect Brand Values | Branding Strategy Insider: One of the rules in branding is that a brands core values can be reinterpreted to keep the brand fresh but they should never fundamentally change.

Παρασκευή 18 Μαρτίου 2016

Πέμπτη 17 Μαρτίου 2016

Duke Dumont - Ocean Drive Lyrics

Nickodemus - Mystery of Life (feat Andrea Montiero)

Otis Taylor - I like you but don't love you

Chet Baker - Almost blue

The Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter

Actively Managing Brand Equity | Branding Strategy Insider

Actively Managing Brand Equity | Branding Strategy Insider: Given that brand equity is the key financial motivation for building a brand, you need to be consistently searching for ways to lift what people are prepared to pay.

Τετάρτη 16 Μαρτίου 2016

The Last Shadow Puppets - Aviation (Official Video)

Τα ανωδυνα ημερολογια: Υπάρχει ελπίδα

Τα ανωδυνα ημερολογια: Υπάρχει ελπίδα: Απογοητευτικές επιδόσεις για τους Έλληνες στα μαθηματικά  , διαβάζεις. (Βέβαια την ίδια βδομάδα βγήκε και αυτό για να μην γκρινιάζουμε αλ...

How To Shift Brand Loyalty | Branding Strategy Insider

How To Shift Brand Loyalty | Branding Strategy Insider: Want to raid a few brand loyalists from the competition? Here's how.

Helping Senior Leadership Think Brand | Branding Strategy Insider

Helping Senior Leadership Think Brand | Branding Strategy Insider: Unfortunately, not all senior leaders regard brands as something they should be involved with. If you’re struggling to get your senior team to put important brand matters on the executive agenda, here’s some ideas for making the case for greater consideration.

Παρασκευή 11 Μαρτίου 2016

Άγνωστα αλλά εντυπωσιακά αξιοθέατα του κόσμου

Άγνωστα αλλά εντυπωσιακά αξιοθέατα του κόσμου: Όλοι γνωρίζουμε για διάσημα αξιοθέατα όπως το Κολοσσαίο της Ρώμης, το Σινικό Τείχος της Κίνας ή το Ταζ Μαχάλ της Ινδίας... Αλλά υπάρχουν και άλλα σπου...

Πέμπτη 10 Μαρτίου 2016

Τα φιόρδ της Νορβηγίας

Τα φιόρδ της Νορβηγίας: Τα φιόρδ δημιουργήθηκαν πριν χιλιάδες χρόνια μετά το λιώσιμο των πάγων, μετά την εποχή των παγετώνων όπου το νερό της θάλασσας πλημμύρισε τις κοιλάδες...

Δευτέρα 7 Μαρτίου 2016

Guanajuato - Η πόλη των χρωμάτων

Guanajuato - Η πόλη των χρωμάτων: Το Guanajuato είναι μια πόλη στο κεντρικό Μεξικό, χτισμένη σε μια πολύ στενή κοιλάδα, η οποία καθιστά τους δρόμους της πόλης πολύ στενούς και γεμάτους...

Guanajuato - Η πόλη των χρωμάτων

Guanajuato - Η πόλη των χρωμάτων: Το Guanajuato είναι μια πόλη στο κεντρικό Μεξικό, χτισμένη σε μια πολύ στενή κοιλάδα, η οποία καθιστά τους δρόμους της πόλης πολύ στενούς και γεμάτους...

Choosing The Right Brand Values | Branding Strategy Insider

Choosing The Right Brand Values | Branding Strategy Insider: Today on Branding Strategy Insider we field a timely marketing question for those working on their brand values. This one is from Phil a brand team leader in Los Angeles, California who asks this about defining them...

Δευτέρα 29 Φεβρουαρίου 2016

Σάββατο 27 Φεβρουαρίου 2016

Suede - Saturday Night

Hercules & Love Affair - Time Will

J.T. LeRoy: Η μεγαλύτερη απάτη στον κόσμο της λογοτεχνίας

J.T. LeRoy: Η μεγαλύτερη απάτη στον κόσμο της λογοτεχνίας: Το 2000, ο Τζερεμία «Terminator» LeRoy εκδίδει το πρώτο του μυθιστόρημα, με τίτλο «Sarah», και συγκλονίζει την λογοτεχνική σκηνή, με τις απροκάλυπτες βιογραφικές του ιστορίες για την σεξουαλική και ψυχολογική κακοποίηση που υπέστη ως έφηβος.
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Πέμπτη 25 Φεβρουαρίου 2016

Τρίτη 23 Φεβρουαρίου 2016

Dead Can Dance - Anabasis

Dead Can Dance - Flowers of the Sea

Iwami Mandala Kannon Pilgrimage Temple 3 Fukujoji

Iwami Mandala Kannon Pilgrimage Temple 3 Fukujoji

5 Ways To Keep Your Brand Current | Branding Strategy Insider

5 Ways To Keep Your Brand Current | Branding Strategy Insider: Five simple ways for brand managers to regularly check that their brands are staying current.

Δευτέρα 22 Φεβρουαρίου 2016

Thanking your employees is smart business

Thanking your employees is smart business: I’m all for appreciating our clients. At MMG, we created a special holiday with just that intention in mind called Who Loves Ya Baby Day. It’s not just about being grateful. It’s good business. One of my business idols is Walt Disney. When someone is hired by the Disney organization, no matter what their role …

Πέμπτη 18 Φεβρουαρίου 2016

Τετάρτη 10 Φεβρουαρίου 2016

The Garden at Myokanji

The Garden at Myokanji

Let your customers help you make it memorable

Let your customers help you make it memorable: In last week’s post we explored the importance of creating a memorable experience for your customers. Today’s customers are one click away from finding someone else to meet their needs which means you need to knock them dead every time. While your competitors can match your prices, copy your products or services and even hire away …

Confusing Brand Strategy With Creative Strategy | Branding Strategy Insider

Confusing Brand Strategy With Creative Strategy | Branding Strategy Insider: Today we hear from Lynn, a brand manager in San Francisco, California who asks this about the difference between brand strategy and creative strategy...

Κυριακή 17 Ιανουαρίου 2016

Dead Can Dance- Anywhere out of the World

Dead Can Dance- Anywhere out of the World

Dead Can Dance - The Trial

TKP Garden City, Hiroshima

TKP Garden City, Hiroshima

A Brand's True Value Lies Below The Surface | Branding Strategy Insider

A Brand's True Value Lies Below The Surface | Branding Strategy Insider: For a select few, brands have become a foundational element of their overall business strategy, creating financial value at every turn and directly influencing revenue and profits.

Πέμπτη 14 Ιανουαρίου 2016

Uncomfortable with Feeling Sadness? These Tips Might Help

Uncomfortable with Feeling Sadness? These Tips Might Help: When we’re upset, many of us do everything but cope with our sadness. We work. We shop. We eat. We drink. We clean. We run errands. We organize. We simply don’t stop moving. And we convince ourselves that we’re too busy to feel sad. We just can’t...