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5 Costly Branding Mistakes

UX Planet

By Mary Moore, copywriter at Shakuro Branding holds the promise of propelling your venture to new heights, capturing hearts, and securing your place in the market. The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. Yet, it’s a double-edged sword.

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How Merging Purpose With Profit Redefines Product Roadmaps And Product Success

The Product Coalition

Founded in 2006 with a unique social mission: for every pair of shoes sold, they would donate a pair to a child in need, an initiative they called “One for One.” However, despite a strong, socially motivated purpose, TOMS struggled due to a lack of focus on business value and product differentiation. You need both.

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Getting conversational: HubSpot’s CEO on a new species of disruptor

Intercom, Inc.

Brian says: Intercom’s SVP of Marketing Shane Murphy-Reuter recently caught up with Brian to talk about the importance of conversational relationships and how they can drive exponential business growth. Brian says: “My ‘aha’ was that it was impossible to market to a modern human, they were getting good at blocking it out.”.

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Goodbye Scion – What Happened To You?

The Accidental Product Manager

The Scion brand is being retired by Toyota Image Credit: Aaron Van Dike. Scion was a separate brand that Toyota created way back in 2003. The brand was sold in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Toyota created the Scion brand in order to attract younger buyers. This is the year that they sold over 173,000 cars.

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Where Does Product Management Fit?

Product Management Unpacked

Recently a CEO asked me if the marketing department should include product management and marketing communications. His concern was that internet/digital marketing had become so complex and such a huge task that having the responsibility of both marketing communications and product management would be difficult.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

I never had any plans to be at one company for that long, but I just kept doing new and different things there – I started in product management and then did a combination of product management and marketing and design. So huge, huge growth during that time. What fuelled your desire to go smaller? Or what are you?”