Dennis Ramdeen

Brand Momentum.
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It’s hard to stop a brand on a roll. Either moving up or down, people follow a brand’s momentum.  I've seen what happens when 'town'...
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T&T people, how do you recover?
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Not from a hangover.  How do you recover when you give bad service?  Or when something goes wrong with your product?  I started thinking about...
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T&T Advertising Hall of Fame. Thank you Clive, John, Kitty and David.
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The Advertising Agencies and the ad community got together earlier this evening to induct its first four 'Hall of Famers'; Clive Belgrave, John Corbin, Katherine...
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Have a presentation to give? Tell a story.
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An insurance salesman made a presentation to a group of us yesterday and I left confused. He used too many technical terms and insurance speak...
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The Bandwagon Effect and that St Joseph Seat.
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Can the Local Government Elections affect the St Joseph Constituency Bye-Election?  I think so, because of the bandwagon effect. (Especially if one party does particularly...
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Ian Alleyne’s brand extension. Will it work?
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Line extension also called brand extension is a multi-product branding strategy whereby a firm markets one or more new products under an already established and well-known brand name. The...
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What’s your Chobster?
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This weekend was Fatima's "salt and pepper" cookout fundraiser.  Every year I try to do something out of the ordinary so that guests would choose...
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De boss ah Soup. Marketing 101.
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If you were going to do only one thing right in marketing, a good place to start is with the product. Putting lip stick on...
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The power of branding.
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A brand was the action of burning a symbol into the flesh of a horse in order to signify ownership of the animal.  Branding started...
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The Wall Paper Effect in Advertising.
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Cash is too hard to come by to waste.  Market share ditto.  So why do we do exactly that when we do wallpaper ads.  You know the...
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We like vanilla advertising for the same reason we like vanilla ice cream.
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Vanilla is still the most popular ice cream in the US.  After all these years you would think that some other flavor would have knocked vanilla off...
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Are you indispensable?
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At KFC we used to have a saying about "climbing the accountability ladder."  The higher up on the ladder you are, the more you are...
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