by Jeff Slater | Feb 26, 2016 | Advertising, Interesting Brands, Marketing Advice
When you have a good, better and best brand strategy like Toyota, you need many degrees of separation. Toyota needed Lexus to be much more expensive and sold by exclusive dealers not associated with the Toyota brand. Walk into a Lexus dealer and you’d never known the...
by Jeff Slater | Feb 24, 2016 | Marketing Advice, Marketing People, Personal Stories
You get the question all the time. What do you do for a living? It is inescapable. Although I never define myself by what I do, still our jobs are a big part of life story. You can’t avoid it. “I am a proud member of the marketing community.” I say it proudly even...
by Jeff Slater | Feb 22, 2016 | Interesting Brands, Marketing Advice, Marketing People, Marketing Start Ups
It started with a desire by two Swedes to spread a little happiness through an everyday object. Their theory was simple: Socks = Happy. Enter Mikael Söderlindh, the CEO of Happy Socks who worked in advertising for a decade and his buddy Viktor Tell. They wanted to...