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		<title>Chinese Brands and Brand China</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Ringer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Don Sexton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do the origins of a brand shape the perceptions of the brand? Yes!  No!  A more accurate response might be, Maybe!  It all Depends! This is a question that Chinese brands are facing every day now.  For more than a decade the rise of Chinese exports has captured the front pages and led to predictions that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narrativebranding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6011173&amp;post=1487&amp;subd=narrativebranding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brand That Place &#8211; or &#8211; George Washington Slept Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Ringer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[brand storytelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narrative marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s NY Post there is a swell piece about Brooklyn as a brand.  And, yes, that is me being quoted. My first experience of branding a place was spending some of my cavity prone years in Morristown, NJ.  Everywhere you look there is a plaque about George Washington.  George Washington Slept Here (A Lot) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narrativebranding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6011173&amp;post=1483&amp;subd=narrativebranding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012: The Year of Reinventing Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Ringer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new year, a new way of marketing? In the past 7 or 8 years the traditional methods of marketing have shown declining effectiveness.   At first the decline was slow overall, although more accelerated in some categories than others.  The decline in effectiveness of traditional methods was most visible in categories such as services, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narrativebranding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6011173&amp;post=669&amp;subd=narrativebranding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Real Social Media &#8211; or &#8211; Come To The NYAMA Holiday Party on December 13th!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Ringer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s that time of the year when marketing pulls out all of the stops but marketers occasionally stop to enjoy some of the holiday cheer. We are kicking off a new tradition at the NYAMA &#8212; a festive holiday party on Tuesday, December 13th.  Everyone is invited and encouraged to come.  It&#8217;s a chance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narrativebranding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6011173&amp;post=1476&amp;subd=narrativebranding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing Without Context Is Not Marketing &#8211; or &#8211; Reading Curation Nation</title>
		<link>http://narrativebranding.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/marketing-without-context-is-not-marketing-or-reading-curation-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Ringer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Context is King! You don&#8217;t have to take my word for it.  You can have breakfast this Wednesday morning (11/16) with the author Steven Rosenbaum and hear it from him directly. Here&#8217;s what Daniel Pink (author of A Whole New Mind) has to say about Steven Rosenbaum&#8217;s new book, Curation Nation &#8220;Curation Nation gives me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narrativebranding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6011173&amp;post=1473&amp;subd=narrativebranding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Is A New NYAMA</title>
		<link>http://narrativebranding.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/it-is-a-new-nyama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Ringer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Marketing Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Trout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York American Marketing Association nyama.org]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while I interrupt this blog with invitations to events or to drop names.  This is one of those times.  So I&#8217;ll temporarily drop my role as CEO of Verse Group and switch into my role as the President of the NYAMA.  I&#8217;m doing that here because, well&#8230;.I don&#8217;t have a blog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narrativebranding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6011173&amp;post=1464&amp;subd=narrativebranding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Think Police?</title>
		<link>http://narrativebranding.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/think-police/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Ringer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years people have been saying &#8220;content is king&#8221;.  In branding, context is king. There are times when the context tells a different story than what was intended. Irony aside, it was wonderful to see these screens lit up at night while walking past Lincoln Center or early in the morning.  That wouldn&#8217;t have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narrativebranding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6011173&amp;post=1456&amp;subd=narrativebranding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cloudy Outlook For Word Clouds?</title>
		<link>http://narrativebranding.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/cloudy-outlook-for-word-clouds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Ringer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, an authoritative source on the un-usefulness of word clouds.  This from the NY Times&#8217; expert software architect, Jacob Harris: For starters, word clouds support only the crudest sorts of textual analysis, much like figuring out a protein by getting a count only of its amino acids. This can be wildly misleading; I created a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narrativebranding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6011173&amp;post=1453&amp;subd=narrativebranding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recession Marketing and E-ink</title>
		<link>http://narrativebranding.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/recession-marketing-and-e-ink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Ringer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t have to wait around for the official NBER ruling to sense that a new recession is already here.  Or, perhaps more accurately, the last one never really ended &#8212; it just got less worse. The new recession won&#8217;t hit marketing like the last one.  There will probably be two major differences. First &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narrativebranding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6011173&amp;post=1451&amp;subd=narrativebranding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>L&#8217;shana Tova</title>
		<link>http://narrativebranding.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/lshana-tova/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall Ringer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;shana Tova to all who are celebrating the Jewish New Year&#8217;s.  Here&#8217;s a video for us Okay, and now the marketing twist.  Branding + Religion = Branded Nation by James Twitchell.  About half an hour after watching the video and sharing it with friends, Twitchell&#8217;s book just popped into my brain.  The book&#8217;s subtitle:  Marketing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=narrativebranding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6011173&amp;post=1446&amp;subd=narrativebranding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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