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Monthly Archives: January 2012

The toxicity of buddy deals

  • January 18, 2012
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How often do you try to get ‘buddy deals’? People have approached me, saying a ‘buddy deal’ went south and didn’t turn out how they wanted. So they came to me, saying they wanted to … Read more

    • Brand
    • Marketing

Change is easy, make work exciting

  • January 17, 2012
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Why make work exciting? If your work is mind-numbing, imagine how your product feels. Imagine how the people using your product experience it. Mind-numbing is mind-numbing no matter how you market it. It comes through … Read more

    • Working Better

Power is personal. Equality is each person’s right.

  • January 16, 2012
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Martin Luther King, Jr. died the year I was born. In the time that passed between those two events and now, a profoundly different attitude towards the equality of human beings has been embraced by … Read more

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Working better to push your boundaries

  • January 16, 2012
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This is about working better. It’s about work being better, not mind-numbing or boring. I can barely stay awake. I’m nodding off to sleep so many times today I’ve lost count. Actually, I’m too tired … Read more

    • Design
    • Working Better

Kablam! Now it’s a marketing blog

  • January 3, 2012
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KellyHobkirk.com is now a marketing blog. I’ll still be writing about brands and branding primarily on my branding and advertising firm website, trainofthought.net. Inevitable it is that some talk of brands and branding will still … Read more

    • Branding
    • Marketing

Temp post for Technorati

  • January 1, 2012
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