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(A marketing lesson from a bowl of chili) You may have heard me from time to time harp on the importance of never mistaking a brand’s trappings for the brand itself. This is not to say that brand trappings don’t matter. They do. To illustrate, I have invited a bowl of chili to join us. A […]
Why “an AOS app” may not be enough REMEMBER WHEN telephones were clunky, corded things you plugged into a wall and used only for the now quaint, so last-century practice of talking? And when offering phones in a choice of colors was a major step forward? Thank goodness the Dark Telephonic Ages are behind us. […]
A significant event occurred last month in the payments industry.Yet for reasons beyond me, it went unreported in the press. You needn’t feel bad if the news didn’t reach you, for in fact it didn’t reach a lot of people. Moreover, you may not have felt its effects. It is only due to its immediate […]
Whatever happened to Clinkle? You may recall not long ago when an app by the name of Clinkle was on the tip of every tongue in the payments industry. The brainchild of wunderkind Lucas Duplan, Clinkle looked to be a game changer. No longer. According to Forbes, the company is struggling, losing dollars and employees […]
For some reason and for the third year in a row, Bank Innovation has shown no better judgment than to include me on its list of “2015 Innovators to Watch.” The 2015 refers to the year, not to the number of innovators, which is a good thing, because 2,015 innovators would have made for a […]