Branding
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According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor, hiring is at a 10-year high, with Americans getting jobs at rates unheard of since the start of the great recession. Job seekers are now back in the driver’s seat, having to juggle two, three or even four job offers.
September 3, 2016
I’ve been using this tag line of “small business who think big” for just under a year now. I took some time last year to really understand my target audience and focus my work and thought that best defines the clients I want to work with. It seems to be resonating because when potential clients reach out, they often mention how they really like that line and thought it fit them well.
And then they ask me what it means.
August 3, 2016
When I was in brand management, social media did not exist. But I can tell you this: I would have had a field day with this exciting medium because I valued the power of ‘big ideas’ to infuse growth into the brands under my wing. Frankly, I had no choice, because I’d worked for small to medium-sized companies competing against giants the likes of Nestle, Kraft, and Procter & Gamble. By any comparison, my brands were under-financed.
May 18, 2016
Talent Pools Must Be Interactive to Be Effective
News Updates
June 5, 2015
LA JOLLA, CALIF.—Using social media as a recruitment tool is just one of many ways that organizations can harness the power of social media, said Jeanne Meister of Future Workplace LLC, at the HR People & Strategy (HRPS) 2014 Global Conference. HRPS is an affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management.
News Updates
April 23, 2014
Great marketing begins with great strategy. Great strategy doesn’t happen without sacrifice. Sacrifice leads to differentiation. Brands cannot promise a smorgasbord of benefits; trying to be all things to all people is a recipe for disaster. There’s more: a marketer’s product or service must deliver the promise. If it doesn’t, great marketing cannot exist.
What does this have to do with HR? Everything. For the sake of brevity, I’ll list just five similarities between HR and marketing.
December 16, 2013
Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding. The conversation in the world of branding is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. Branding has proliferated big time – we now have personal brands, country brands, political brands, cause-related brands, even cultural brands. The ramification is clutter, the arch enemy of brand identity. So, wouldn’t you expect a heck of a lot more corporate attention to commercial brands?
August 27, 2013