Rebrand your businessThis is a guest post by Sookie Shuen from Tomorrow People.

How much can your company benefit from a timely rebranding and revitalization?

When considering this question, one must keep in mind that rebranding does not necessarily address the wants and needs of the company directly, but rather speaks to the wants and needs of that company’s current and prospective customers.  Therefore, the important factors to consider when assessing the value of a rebrand include equity measurement; market differentiation and accessibility; brand awareness, relevance and vitality; and consumer personality, preference, usage, associations, and emotional connectivity.

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The Power of Unpopular by Erika NapoletanoThe other day I finally gave in and stopped at this place near Colorado Blvd in Pasadena. It’s a tiny shop that sells hotdogs and sodas. I’ve been driving by for years looking at masses of people wait outside in line. You’d immediately assume the hotdogs are pretty damn awesome.

Truth is I get tired just looking at the line, I’m not about to spend an hour waiting for a stupid hotdog. But I had to at some point. So I did. The hotdogs have this very particular and horrible taste. So I asked. It’s the “secret sauce” the waiter proudly responded with a smile on his face thinking I can’t get enough of it. I could barely keep it in my mouth.

It’s “secret”, they’re not gonna tell me what’s in it. Frankly I just wanted to avoid putting those ingredients together in the future, you know, by accident.

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20 Blogs to follow if you want to succeed onlineBeing successful online requires that you beat a pretty long learning curve and while I try to contribute with my 2 cents, there are amazing bloggers out there that you should be reading on a regular basis.

These people put their amazing talent and knowledge into blog content and deliver it to their online communities week after week.

I have to advise you that if you see that I’m not going with the obvious is for 2 reasons, one because I like helping you discover stuff that you might have missed (there is just too much content out there…) and two, not that I don’t occasionally read the usual suspects, but this is the stuff I visit frequently. Also let me say that this is not a ranking so don’t pay attention to the order.

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