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Sep 13, 2010

Meet adland’s Facebook troupers

Bindu Nair Maitra looks at the Facebook feeds of seven adlanders to see how they treat their timelines on a week to week and day to day basis. Here’s what she found out.

Mar 12, 2009

Tattoos on arms do not an iconic brand make

A Brand consultant sometimes feels like a psychoanalyst, as a marketer’s eyes glaze over and he begins to share his deepest secret desires, his dreams, his fantasies, how he thinks he is actually Napoleon. Or Bill Gates or Richard Branson.One tries to understand the underlying obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety neurosis or schizoid isolation that drive him.Recently I had to put on my psychoanalyst hat to interpret a prospective client’s words: “I want to create an Iconic brand”. Huh?