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Celebrity endorsements can be deadly

Harnessing a big name can be a big asset or a big problem. A few years back we worked on the Green Belt Movement’s fundraising materials. One of our goals was to manage founder and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Wangari Maathai’s growing celebrity presence vis-à-vis the organization. Maathai might inspire, but donors actually gave to the [...]
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Branding’s Challenge: Controlling Language

You don’t own that A lot of brand experts talk about “owning” words. Tony Robbins, for example, owns “motivation”; Apple owns “innovations”; and President Obama owns “hope.” Experts propose exercises such as, “if you looked up the word ________ in the dictionary, you’d find a photo of our company.”
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