BRANDING [grid::brand]

If you happened to be online last Friday, you may have noticed that I wrote about this new thing called 'Grid Blogging' (click here to see what itís all about). In the spirit of todayís Grid Blog (topic being ìbrandî) I offer the following list, in no particular order:

1. The Brand Called You!
2. Stewart Brand's Home Page
3. The Brand Institute
4. Institute For Brand Leadership
5. Boycott Brand America
6. Lucky Brand Dungarees
7. Brand Republic
8. Brand Fidelity
9. The Brand You 50
10. Matthew Brand
11. Lore Brand Comics
12. The Official Oscar Brand Homepage
13. What Brand Are You?
14. Brand Communications
15. Precision Brand Products
16. Brand Flowers
17. Max Brand's Homepage
18. Brand Packaging
19. BrandWeek.com
20. Chris Brand, Psychologist
21. Favorite Brand Name Recipes
22. The Journal of Brand Management
23. Brand Finance
24. Brand New School
25. Brand Quest
26. The Brand Value Management Benchmarking Consortium
27. Donne Brand's Poetry
28. The Travel Brand
29. Brand New Planet
30. Elton Brand's Player Bio
31. Brand Marketing
32. Brand X
33. Rob Frankel's Revenge of Brand X
34. It's All About The Brand
35. Pointer Brand Overalls
36. The Great Brands & Champagne Houses
37. Developing Brand Identity
38. Brand Happening

"#34 - It's All about the Branding" reviewed the brand value of Apple Computer. An analyst, Gobe, argued that, in some cases, branding has become as powerful as religion. "People's connections with brands transcend commerce," he said. Gobe cited Nike, which sparked customers' ire when it was revealed the company's products were assembled in sweatshops. "They were not pissed about the products," Gobe said. "It's about the company's ethics. It's interesting how emotionally involved people are."

"Take the iPod, it brings an emotional, sensory experience to computing," Gobe said. "Apple's design is people-driven." That's why people swear by Macs - or other niche products or brands.

Branding is very important, indeed. Look at colleges, even. Depending on the product - elite education, sports - it's very revealing: the Ivy League, the Big 12, the ACC, the (old) Southwest Conference.

Very "kool" list you have there. I found da same one and expanded on ONE; a most interesting "Brand".

What a FUN thing this "Grid Blogging" is! Thanks for turning me on. :-)

What, no branding of cattle?

http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/cattlebrandhistory.htm