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27 September 2010 17 Comments

Brands: how to build a start up through social marketing


Social media is no longer used by individuals to stay in touch or to stay connected. Starts up entrepreneurs are now seeking the opportunities in social media to expose their services to target through social marketing. Many are getting it right while many are losing it big times. This is because they do not understand [...]

24 June 2010 24 Comments

Brands:how to use engagement marketing to reduce cost


I wake up with possibilities each day. I am passionate about making entrepreneurs and brands succeed in their efforts despite the economy. Money is not available to do everything we want to do. If I am correct there has never been anytime when money goes round to do all that human desire to accomplish. The [...]

17 May 2010 48 Comments

Social media and Nigeria’s market/brands


When it all started, very few people gave this baby, new trend a chance of survival. There were one thousand and one reasons why people thought it could not survive. The low level of infrastructure, cost of access to Internet was not within the reach of average person on the street. But few of us [...]

10 May 2010 54 Comments

Brand: what is your marketing strategy?


  To say we live in changing times is an understatement. Each new day brings its own uniqueness. what used to be hot yesterday is no longer so. Marketing strategy of last century may no longer be tenable. What we have noticed is that some still want to stick to the old way of doing [...]

27 January 2010 58 Comments

Brand marketing: the tsunami still rages


 Prior to the first tsunami in Asia, tsunami is just a word in the dictionary. Most people did not know what the word stands for, how it operates. All of us could not imagine the huge impact an occurrence can have on humanity. This was followed by ‘Hurricane Katrina’ which was the USA version under [...]

24 August 2009 24 Comments

Why internal branding is vital


In my bid to up my knowledge so I can be of more value to my community, I began a research on necessity of internal/employee branding. It s not  a case that I did not know how vital internal branding is to corporate branding before, but the fact remains that knowledge changes and to be relevant [...]

21 May 2009 6 Comments

Personal branding:are you so sure?


In the course of dealings with individuals in the area of personal and executive branding, I have noticed a flow of thought prevalent among many. People need a quick fix it answers. A tip of a sort. A wheel that one can swing in minutes and get result. My response to that is that there [...]

26 March 2009 6 Comments

How to fortify your personal brand


Every personal brand has greater potential force of reckoning than we all acknowledged. Each given personal brand has innate capability to impact the thoughts, deeds and actions of those around us. Interestingly, when we do our parts, the law of psychological reciprocity which states “human beings are instinctively impelled to return to others the feelings [...]

20 March 2009 8 Comments

Brand engagement marketing


As the battle ground begins to shift from traditional mainstream mass media to digital media, the fierceness of the battle will soon be felt more on the cyberspace because customers now have a say. It is wise for brands to develop a strategy on how to play the game according to the rule. I must [...]

3 February 2009 32 Comments

Personal branding for Executive/Personal assistants


Personal assitant/Executive Assistant evolved over the years as result of pressure on senior executive and the need to have someone who can help them solves other important details that they may not have time for. At the beginning, what is today called Executive/Personal  assiatnt is called Confidential secretary among other names.The role they played then [...]