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Book review – Managing Brands

Red Star Kim

Most M&BD professionals will have some involvement in brand work – whether through campaigns for brand awareness and activation or brand management (ensuring that all activities and communications are in line with agreed brand guidelines). Porter’s generic strategies (cost leadership, differentiation and focus) are relevant here.

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Equipped for the Inevitable: The Owens Corning Story

Luminas Strategy

In 2009, when the bottom fell out of the housing market, building materials manufacturers were hit hard. As far as their customers were concerned, because Owens Corning’s investments and go-to market strategy were so broad, they had become a transactional supplier. This success doesn’t mean that there haven’t been difficult times.

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Agency processes and client management, with Rob Da Costa

Account Management Skills

Da Costa Coaching helps agency owners build their business in a profitable, sustainable and enjoyable way. But if we are not doing that in our prospecting phase and we are just sort of being seen as a supplier that looks a little bit better than the current supplier that they have, so they will just switch you out.