Dennis Ramdeen

10 things we Marketing people should stop doing.
Sun 27th Oct, 2013|Blog
Making decisions without insights Advertising a lousy product or service Selling only the steak (we must also sell the sizzle) Going to war with our...
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Brand Momentum.
Fri 25th Oct, 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy
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?
Thu 24th Oct, 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy
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.
Wed 23rd Oct, 2013|Ad Industry, Blog
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.
Sat 19th Oct, 2013|Blog, Off-Topic
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.
Fri 18th Oct, 2013|Blog, Off-Topic
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?
Thu 17th Oct, 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy
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?
Sun 13th Oct, 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy
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.
Fri 11th Oct, 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy
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.
Thu 10th Oct, 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy
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.
Wed 9th Oct, 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy
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.
Sat 5th Oct, 2013|Blog, Marketing Strategy
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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