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Message to all brands: Shooting first & asking questions later is never a...
In their effort to gauge just how disgruntled banks could make their customers for no good reason, Bank of America, Suntrust and Regions will be doing away with the $5 debit charge they proposed just a...
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AutoZone, Advanced Auto Parts, etc., etc., etc. What’s the difference?
Sometimes, there are certain categories of brands where every company associated with that category presents no significant difference from each other. One such category of undifferentiated companies...
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Banks are still failing, but so are credit unions and community banks
It is amazing to me that, despite the current economic turmoil and consumer anger toward the big US banks, those banks such as Bank of America, Suntrust, and Wells Fargo still think they are above the...
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Joe Paterno to retire, but Penn State needs to clean house now
I say what I’m about to say without in any way diminishing the hurt and wrong done to the innocent kids by the people in charge of the Penn State football program. All of our hearts go out to them and...
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Starbucks Corp. is taking on the juice industry, and it just might work
“I’ll take a venti, carrot, apple parsley juice du jour with a double shot of flax seed, please.” Sound strange? Maybe not, thinks Starbucks visionary Howard Schultz. The CEO of the world-wide, mega...
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PlayStation Vita could prove to be an exercise in redundancy
I have been following news about the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld gaming system and, as its release date nears, I wonder more and more if its success will receive a similar lackluster release as...
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Boxee’s ideas are on the right track
The world of television is changing. It’s evolving as rapidly as the music, book and video industries. This evolution has brought Blockbuster Video to the doldrums and Hollywood Video to the wayside....
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Chick-fil-A is no longer about just chicken and silly cows
Every company that cares about its brand should work hard to separate its corporate identity from the political and personal views of those who work there. This is good advice for both privately owned...
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Snoop Lion’s brand was worth more when it was canine
In breaking news that can only be categorized as not real news at all, Snoop Dogg – the rapper formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg – is jumping species and changing his name to Snoop Lion. Lion may be...
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Major changes are coming to the video game industry
Over the past month, two pieces of news have caught my attention. The first was Sony’s purchase of Gaikai, a cloud-based video game site that allows big-named game titles to be played through an...
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