Marketing

Your new product or service is great. You want to tell people. Why not shout it as loudly as you can to as many many people as you can? Because, until you have an audience, you have to work exponentially harder to make your message matter....

Dominant organizations occupy positions of ultimate profitability.  They do this by providing their customers what they want, even before their customers know they want it.  Whenever Apple unveils their latest iGadget, they already have legions of excited customers eager to buy. How do they do that?...

Many businesses suffer from catering to deadly customers. Deadly customers aren’t customers that hate you. They like you and probably account for a large portion of both your current base and target market. Chances are that, collectively, they purchase a lot from you. Playing to deadly...

Archetypes are at the core of effective marketing. They provide the most powerful way to attract the right customers. But archetypes are often misunderstood. This week, we examine the archetypal power of one of the world’s strongest brands.

  Cult Branding was founded on Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs. Maslow’s hierarchy offers a simple framework for understanding consumer behavior: Humans have inherent needs (physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization) that they try to fulfill. And, consumer behavior is motivated by the...

Insights from SAP, Cult Branding and Life is good. "For retail, it's no longer about buying stuff and putting it in the window. Those days are over." -Bert Jacobs, CEO of Life is good Today’s retail landscape has changed (drastically!). Our goal is to help clients create authentic brands...

You know the big names. You read the news. You stay up-to-date on what’s happening in retail. But hearing insights from top retail CEOs and industry thought leaders in person is a totally different experience – and we’re betting that you’ve probably never had the chance...