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When Silence is Truly Golden For Brands
In a world of mass communication, there is enormous value to silence - as long as it is at the right time Silence is great for brands when it is used To allow your talent to think and be creative......
Podcast 184 - Engage Through Spoken and Written Words
Show 184 of The Engaging Brand leadership and marketing podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen on your PC now - both for free, you don't need to download anything - all explained at the...
10 Things To Remove To Create Engagement
Successful designs engage through their simplicity. Simplicity of design, of use or of the idea. Engagement is the same....today I want to look at employees and then tomorrow consumers. So how can a l...
Show #179 - Steps to Building a Personal Brand Pt1
Show 179 of The Engaging Brand leadership and marketing podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen on your PC now - both for free, you don't need to download anything - all explained at the...
Combine to Create Engagement
When you think of engaging brands, they haven't necessarily delivered something new, something completely different. What they have done is combine different aspects to create an engaging proposition ...
The Most Important Conversation
Conversations are at the core of society, conversations are at the heart of friendships and of course as The Cluetrain Manifesto highlighted...markets are conversations. As a leader, as a personal bra...
Show #175 - Talent as a Competitive Advantage
Show 175 of The Engaging Brand leadership and marketing podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen on your PC now - both for free, you don't need to download anything - all explained at the...
Blogging Brings Internal as well as External Benefits
Working with clients on whether to blog or how to get started blogging, I find some of the benefits are as internal than external. It gives you a real insight into not what you think your culture is.....
Show #167 - How Our Brains Work
Show 167 of The Engaging Brand leadership and marketing podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen on your PC now - both for free, you don't need to download anything - all explained at the...
Putting the E into E - Motion
People are emotional. Business consist of people both as employees and as consumers. Therefore, business is emotional. I feel passionate that any tools available to managers that help address and mana...
When is a Conversation not a Conversation?
Just had an interesting conversation with 2 people who have just had what they call "a conversation". Interesting because both believe they are right, both believe the other "didn't get it", and both ...
Power of Conversations, Power of Learning
World I love you, truly love you...I have had the best day interviewing people for the podcast (Watch out for an interview with a business psychologist, Alison Hardingham on conversations and with Bob...
Show #154 - Emotional Intelligence in Business Pt2
Show 154 of The Engaging Brand podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen on your PC now - both for free, you don't need to download anything - it is all explained at the end of the......
10 Business Lessons from Google
I am a lover of Google, but in reality with this post I mean search engines. There is so much we can learn from the way the approach information in terms of our business lives - for marketing, for com...
Show #150 - Brand Lessons from the Music Industry
Show 150 of The Engaging Brand podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen on your PC now - both for free, you don't need to download anything - it is all explained at the end of the......
10 Things I Want to Do Before I Die
...not that I am planning to soon! But if I am going to leave a legacy that I am proud of I need to get working....here are mine..what are yours? Feel free to post about them and let me know......
Show #148 - Tips from TV and Radio - Part 2
Show 148 of The Engaging Brand podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen on your PC now - both for free, you don't need to download anything - it is all explained at the end of the......
How to be an Engaging Leader
As some of you know I write another blog called Widows Quest and a couple of days ago I wrote a post about The Art of Forgiveness. I quoted Francis Maitland Balfour who once said “The best thing to ...
Conversations Start Inside the Company
I like to think of a brand as a triangle - company, employees, customers. All have to feel the values of the brand. All have to understand and trust in the brand. All have a role to play in developing...
Social Media Needs Human not Technical Skills
I was at a wonderful conference last week and was often faced with two social media statements It's OK for you, you are a geek... You must have lots of technical knowledge to live in a social media wo...
6 Tips on Facilitating a Conference
I had the pleasure this week of speaking at the Prowess conference and seeing a real professional - Maggie Philbin - in action, on how to bring a conference together and facilitate thought provoking s...
Do you see your business as human?
Business exists because of humans - because humans establish them, because humans run them, because humans buy from them....I think if we change our mindset from a business as an entity to business be...
Show #141 - Generating Buzz About Your Brand
Show 141 of The Engaging Brand podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen on your PC now - both for free, you don't need to download anything - it is all explained at the end of the......
Do you inspire or expire the flame of passion?
I have just shared with The Engaging Brand Facebook members a little story... This Christmas I received a card from someone who used to work with me, they said "It may have been a while since I worked...
Be Better Than Better Rant!
Occasionally I have a rant about a word - time for me to try and encourage another word to be banished from our leadership mouths! I hate the word "better"....I found myself saying it yesterday and re...
Feeding the Conversation
Conversation is not new, conversation has been at the heart of society since...well forever.Yes, the internet has taken the conversation from a local to a global base but conversation has always been ...
Show #139 - Owning Your Brand
Show 139 of The Engaging Brand podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen on your PC now - both for free, you don't need to download anything - it is all explained at the end of the......
Social Media Is To Marketing What EDLP Was To Advertising
The more I think about social media and branding, the more I think that it follows the principle of Everyday Low Prices. I remember going to Asda a few years back (part of Walmart) and hearing that th...
Show # 138 - Building a Community
Show 138 of The Engaging Brand podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen on your PC now - both for free, you don't need to download anything - it is all explained at the end of the......
Have Your Values Got Value
It amazes me how many companies talk about their values and yet their values do not create "value" in your market either for employees or customers. I believe your values should create a tangible valu...
