Where marketing talks to strangers
(whether it should or not)
Hello, I’m Dan Bond. And this is my thinking space for marketing observations drawn from, well, anywhere. It covers behavioural psychology, design, history, or the gap between what people say they do and what they actually do when nobody’s watching.
Category or tag:
branding
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The discount addiction nobody wants – Agency Folk
A retailer I spoke with recently tried going cold turkey on promotions. Sales tanked. AOV collapsed. And their CEO, who’d presumably signed off on this…
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Browse Basket Buy with branding expert Danni Bramall
There’s a scene in Mad Men where Don Draper convinces a room full of executives that a carousel of family photographs isn’t just a projector—it’s…
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5–8 minutes -
Orange not beige
In 1968, Cliff Cooper opened his music shop in London. He painted it bright orange, inside and out, giving it a luminous presence you couldn’t…
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4–6 minutes -
Why Jam2nd (and why geography matters sometimes)
The woman at the National Trust café looked genuinely offended. Not the polite, British sort of offended where you tut quietly and write a strongly…
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6–9 minutes -
Marketing to one: Why Howard Gossage chose his audience
Picture the typical airline advertisement in 1962: a stewardess serving cocktails (back when that was somehow peak sophistication), promises of “friendly skies,” and copy that…
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7–10 minutes
