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South Africa is Africa’s most valuable country brand, study says:
"South Africa was named Africa’s most valuable nation brand last Wednesday (May 25th, 2011) at the announcement of the fourth BrandFinance Global Nation Brands League.
The BrandFinance Global Nation Brands League’s valuation is conducted every year by Brand Finance, an independent brand valuation consultancy. Now in their fourth year, the league covers a global sample [...]"

Beyond MROCs and Community Panels: "As part of an article I am writing I have recently posted blogs on MROCs and Community Panels. This is the final post in that part of the draft that relates to puroposed communities, online communities set up for a purpose and and which can be utilised by market research. Again, I would love to hear your thoughts.

Brand Communities, Natural Communities, and Social Networks
Just a couple of years ago it looked as though brand communities were going to be one of the biggest things in marketing and an essential component of market research. Most conference presentations on the topic talked about MyStarbucksIdea, Dells IdeaStorm, and of course Lego’s communities. However, the growth in major brand communities seems to have stalled, perhaps showing one of the truths about social media, in general, brands have to go where the people are, the people do not go where the brands are. There will still be developments in brand communities, perhaps the entir…

'Marketing Doctor' John Tantillo's Winner and Loser of the Week: Ronald McDonald and 3-D: "WINNER:



You’d think with 550 health professionals signing a letter to get rid of Ronald McDonald, McDonald’s longtime clown/spokesperson, we’d have to shift the yellow and orange icon into the loser column.

As they say in my neighborhood: fuggedaboutit.



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