Your Brain is the Puppy or the Puppet Master – Ulli Appelbaum

Ulli Appelbaum ( @FirstThetrouser ) is an international marketing and brand strategist. He is an expert in coming up with fresh perspectives to position a brands, products and companies. Ulli has developed a strategy exercise into a technique he calls Positioning-Roulette. Positioning-Roulette is a culmination of 1200 case studies provided as 26 flash cards. The …

Contemporary Branding – Justin Foster and Emily Soccorsy

Justin Foster (@fosterthinking) and Emily Soccorsy (@emilyatlarge) operate Root and River. Root and River is a contemporary branding practice that finds a leader’s branding mission and enables the machine to spread the word. In this episode, Justin and Emily talk about how to find and define your mission. We discuss how to attract the right customers …

Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication – Alan Siegel

Alan Siegel (@siegelvision) is the CEO and Founder at Siegelvision and Chairman Emeritus at Siegel + Gale. Alan has spent much of his life working on over 300 campaigns simplifying for the sake of clarity. His accomplishments include creating new credit documents for Citibank, simplifying the 1040EZ form and creating the current NBA logo. In this episode, …

How to Relaunch a Global Brand – Josh London

Josh London (@joshdlondon) is the first ever CMO for IDG. IDG is the worlds largest media and technology service company with hundreds of properties in 147 countries. It’s mission is to enable a global audience make the smartest technology purchase decisions through it’s various web properties like Computerworld, InfoWorld, CIO, and CSO. In this episode, Josh …

Storytelling as a Business Competency – Billee Howard

Billee Howard (@mashuptweet) is a storyteller. Billee’s experience at Weber Shandwick serving the worlds leading brands provided the insight to create her own storytelling brand, Brandthropologie. At Brandthropologie, Billee works with CMOs and business leaders on how to turn storytelling into business competency. In this episode, Billee and I talk about how to enable and …