February 5, 2002 Circulation: 23,700+ Volume 2, No. 2
In this issue you'll find our newest articles...and more.
1 - Your Personal Brand: Don't Expect to Lead Without It
2 - Six Classic Mistakes - Email Newsletters Make
3 - 3 Ways to Find Out What Your Customers Want
4 - How About Some Sex in Your Advertising?
5 - The Untapped Marketing Potential of Privacy Policies
6 - How to Manage Your Brand Portfolio
7 - Take a Stand
8 - Rev Up Your Writing
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Your Personal Brand: Don't Expect to Lead Without It

Consider how New York City's chief executive and the CEO of a Silicon Valley firm each demonstrated their personal brands during and after the events of September 11.

New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was everywhere, while the Silicon Valley company CEO, as recounted in a recent issue of Fortune magazine, who was stranded away from his office in the aftermath of September 11, didn't contact anyone at his company for two days. Upon his return, a short speech about the events was prefaced by the remark that he wasn't going to "pretend to be anyone's spiritual advisor."

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Six Classic Mistakes...Email Newsletters Make
Marketers are making a lot of mistakes with their newsletters. If you send out newsletters, here are six you should correct right now.
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3 Ways to Find Out What Your Customers Want
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How About Some Sex in your Advertising?

Sex. Seems like everybody's doing it.
And it's ever so tempting to add some sexual spice to your visuals, voice, or vocabulary.

But wait.

With sex, first you have to decide whether you want to do it. And if so, how far you want to go.

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The Untapped Marketing Potential of Privacy Policies
How to get more out of a page that promises less…
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How to Manage Your Brand Portfolio

What you can learn from diapers
Managing brand images and building brand portfolios are difficult challenges even for the most seasoned executives. This is particularly true in hard economic times when consumers are prone to forego known names to buy less expensive store brand substitutes. The recent example of Pampers diapers illustrates many of the challenges and some of the opportunities available to marketers to increase the value of their brand franchise.


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Take a Stand
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Rev Up Your Writing
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