6 Lightly Branded: EepyBird, The Coca-Cola Company, and Mentos

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

--Jeff Bezos

I just got back from my husband’s basketball game. All night long I cheered for his team, which is one of many teams in a great men’s basketball league in New York. During the evening, I started noticing a brand on the basketball jersey. It wasn’t the focus of the jersey or the game. However, for a local group, it was a subtle, brand statement that the number-one team was associated with them. And, for me, it was a positive, local, and personal association with a global brand. As we discussed in Chapter 4, “Fish Where the Fish are and ...

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