Branding and Happiness Revisited
Over the weekend, my friend and advertising’s self-appointed inquisitor-general, Bob Hoffman, republished part of a brilliant article he wrote 11 years ago on the connection between branding and happiness. It is too good not to share. The piece was called Everything You Need To Know About Branding On One Little Page. Of branding and happiness, Hoffman explained:
Writing in his blog this past weekend, Hoffman reminisced:
Turns out that for once I may have been on target, at least about the happiness bit. This week a guy who is professor of clinical psychiatry at Cornell and contributes regularly to The New York Times wrote, “Everyone wants to be happy, yet the more directly we pursue happiness, the more elusive it becomes. Happiness is a side effect.”
This guy is wasting his time as a psychiatrist. He could be a blogger!
Anyway, if I was right about happiness, who knows, maybe I was also right about creating a successful brand? Here’s what I wrote at the time:
- Make sure you’re selling excellent products.
- Make sure you’re taking good care of your customers.
- Make sure your ads demonstrate how your product is different from, and better than your competitor’s.
That’s what builds brands, and that’s all you need to know. The rest is chitchat.
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Read Bob Hoffman’s full biography here: https://www.blogger.com/profile/05158827977385952634 or, follow Bob Hoffman online @adcontrarian.
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