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Brand Innovation: Stop Imitating, Start Innovating

Even though many sales and marketing representatives have personalities that can often be described as competitive with a dash of homicidal, the sales and marketing world is chock full of fear. This is why, as you have undoubtedly noticed, many marketing strategies, brands, logos and campaigns seem really, really similar.

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Coca-Cola Label Strategy: SmashBrand-Cola, Anyone?

Coca-Cola (or as we like to call it, Zeus Almighty of all corporate brands, Coca Cola be praised) has devised a labeling strategy for United Kingdom customers where every bottle of Coke can be branded with the name of the purchaser. For the sake of ease and simplicity, Coca Cola has helpfully created labels with…

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Package Design Conference 2013 – We Invade San Francisco

Yes we’re goin’ to Saaaan Fraaaancisco for a packaging design conference. Nevertheless, the question remains: will we wear flowers in our hair? In just a few short weeks, the SmashBrand team will head to San Francisco to attend the 2013 Package Design Conference. This third annual conference features a cornucopia of seminars, lectures, networking opportunities…

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What Kombucha Dogs Have to Do with Your Labeling Strategy.

In our ongoing series exploring how to exploit consumer sentiment to drive up sales, we will now delve into the topic of charities, and how philanthropic affiliations can earn your company sweet, sweet cash. We’re only kidding, naturally (not really). However, it is a fact that customers like companies with heart. Be honest, if you…

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