What you really play with…

Hands up if you’ve ever given a child a present and they’ve been more entertained by the box than by the object that was inside. My guess is, you’re now reading this with one hand in the air!

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Quality Cues

It is fitting that this month’s blogs are about packaging, as we are full swing into creating a lot of it for various clients this month.

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It’s just better…

This week saw the delivery of Jack in the box’s provocative ‘Better Brands vs Better Products’ 60 minute presentation to an audience of the Small Business Centre – Bunbury Wellington. Over 40 people attended with a highly positive response to this potential controversial session.

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Being Known, or Being Found?

A subject of great debate in the Jack in the box office recently was, can search engine marketing be used as a branding tool? By concentrating on search engine marketing do you leave your brand behind? Do searchers just view you as another name-less online supplier? Let me show you how search engine marketing can be used in a totally different way to not only build your brand, but take it to completely new places.

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The Name Game

Due to the plethora of cooking shows on TV a ‘new’ type of cooking oil has been brought to my attention. The ‘new’ oil in question is Rapeseed Oil. Curious to find out where it came from I did a little research only to find this impostor has been around for years under the disguise of another name.

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Can you pass me a Kleenex…?

In researching content for our Albany workshop this week, I stumbled across an interesting legal term: a genericised trademark. In a nutshell, this describes an evolution of a trademark to a generic descriptor of a class of product or service – like ‘googling’ instead of ‘searching’ or ‘bandaid’ instead of ‘plaster’.

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