Steve Shu’s posterous (Marketing class site)

Steve Shu’s posterous (Marketing class site)

Steve Shu  //  Steve Shu is a management consultant and business development professional. He is also an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Irvine University.

Steve holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and both an ME and BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Steve currently has a primary professional blog at http://steveshu.typepad.com and can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/steveshu

Nov 9 / 8:58am

Ways to stretch your personal brand based on brand management concepts

Linda VandeVrede invited me to post on her blog regarding brand-related topics, and I did so by providing some perspectives on "personal branding". "Personal branding" is not a widely understood term, so readers may find it interesting from a career and personal development perspective. In this post, I set the frame in the context of how companies look at a key aspect of brand management - in particular, brand associations. In my post, I take the position that personal branding is best built by making investments in three areas: 1) refining the meaning that defines where you want to be, 2) making conscious investments to improve yourself, and 3) ensuring that you use the prior investments to help and reach out to others. For more on the post, please visit http://www.lindavandevrede.com/best-practices/ways-to-stretch-your-personal-brand-based-on-brand-management-concepts
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Nov 7 / 7:53am

How "Mickey Mouse" Is Re-Branding? | InventorSpot

Interesting that this video talks about making Mickey "relevant" first. The notions of differentiation subtend somewhat, but are clearly important. Note that the article in which this video is embedded implies lessons for re- branding issues as well as personal re-branding issues. http://inventorspot.com/articles/how_mickey_mouse_rebranding_34286

Filed under  //  Branding   Marketing  

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Oct 16 / 11:01am

Twitter Launching “Twitter Wine”

Is this the business model for Twitter? Co-branding - brand extension like thing. Some interesting elements that combine social responsibility, non-profits, word-of-mouth, and Yellow Tail wine-like strategy.

Update 10/17/09: More details emerging which indicates not as much like Yellow Tail wine strategy as I may have originally thought. For example, seems like wine may be in the $20ish range, possibly plan for more than just two wines, ...

Filed under  //  Branding   Marketing   Social Responsbility  

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Oct 1 / 10:06am

Dear Intel, you had me at “Intel Inside”. Now enough already! | Beg to Differ - branding for humans

How branding and subbrands can go off the rail (see the post above for a bit of humor and truth).

Filed under  //  Branding   Humor  

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Sep 19 / 7:29am

Interbrand 2009 - Best Brands For Past Decade

Interactive chart that references some key change points. Follow link here http://www.interbrand.com/BGB09/JXECR863200P.swf

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Sep 4 / 1:41pm

Logo & Creative: Guitar Hero Grows Up - Brand New

The post referenced above does a good job of characterizing the evolution of the logo creative for Guitar Hero and new subbrands (such as DJ Hero above). For additional context on how the strategy of the company is evolving (which drives creative design), readers may be interested in my brand audit of the Guitar Hero brand http://steveshu.typepad.com/Mini-Brand%20Audit%20-%20Activision%20Guitar%20Hero%20V1d0.pdf

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Aug 4 / 11:38am

Should Your Brand Have Its Own URL Shortener? Coca-Cola Now Does

Branded url shortener by Coca-Cola. Will this create more interation and top of mind awareness? Will this create more trust or less? What if the URL redirects to an inappropriate destination?

Filed under  //  Branding   Marketing   Social Media  

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Jul 5 / 11:05am

Samsung Extreme Sheep Art

 
For Marketing class on brand building activities via social media, creating brand associations, and using borrowed interest techniques.
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