Archive for the ‘Consumer Behavior’ Category

Transform 2011- What's Next in Marketing, Media & Advertising-2

Transform 2011- What’s Next in Marketing, Media & Advertising-2

By SK | Brand Challenges, Consumer Behavior, Social Media

 Transform 2011 marketing conference organized by Event Architects was held on Saturday the 15th of October 2011. The event comprised of some of the best marketers including Haseeb Ihtisham Nokia, Amin Rammal Brand Crew, Amer Sarfaraz  Bramerz, Shoaib Qureshy  Bulls Eye, Mansoor Nawaz Dynamic Marketing Concepts, Afzal Shahabuddin  Resource Edge, and Zainab Ansari Xenith Public

Transform 2011- What's Next in Marketing, Media & Advertising

Transform 2011- What’s Next in Marketing, Media & Advertising

By SK | Brand Challenges, Branded Event, Consumer Behavior, Social Media

Transform 2011 marketing conference organized by Event Architects was held on Saturday the 15th of October 2011. The event comprised of some of the best marketers including Haseeb Ihtisham Nokia, Amin Rammal Brand Crew, Amer Sarfaraz  Bramerz, Shoaib Qureshy  Bulls Eye, Mansoor Nawaz Dynamic Marketing Concepts, Afzal Shahabuddin  Resource Edge, and Zainab Ansari Xenith Public

Over-Promise and Under-Deliver- The new brand mantra?

By SK | Brand Challenges, brand-in-trouble, Consumer Behavior

Zainab Khan, the magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, is an emerging brand in the rapidly expanding field of studying-abroad guidance. Although the field is nothing new, it had been confined to a small niche for a long time with few specialists manning the boundaries. But with more foreign universities especially from UK and

Ufone -Yawning Gap between Brand Promise and Customer Service

By SK | brand-in-trouble, Branded Connections, Consumer Behavior

One of the worst things you could do as a brand is not deliver on your brand promise. Ufone has tried to position itself as the harbinger of impeccable customer service in Pakistan. It has come up with its own version of the ten commandments, the first one of which is ‘Service First’. Even the

Monsoon Branding – The ignored Slice of Life

By SK | Consumer Behavior

Every year, the metropolitans of Pakistan especially Karachi have to bear the fury of a monsoon season. In the developed world, this event would be just another wet day but in this part of the world, the wet day mutates into a ferocious beast courtesy the pathetic performance of the civic agencies. Falling billboards and

Brand Wars- Honda Vs Toyota

By SK | Brand Power, brand wars, Consumer Behavior

Pepsi Vs Coke, Playstation Vs Xbox, Nike vs Reebok. Honda Vs Toyota. What do all these rivalries have in common? Is one brand better than its rival? Maybe in some aspects, but then in others it loses the competitive edge. Is there a fool-proof way to gauge the absolute worth of a brand over its

Using Social Media To Market your Business- Shahjehan at T2F 2.0

By SK | Branded Connections, Branded Event, Consumer Behavior, Social Media

Shahjehan Chaudhary, the founder of myoffstreet.com, conducted a workshop on ‘Promoting your business through Social Media’ at The Second Floor which was jampacked with people from various cross-sections of the society, from budding entrepreneurs to media people to established businessmen. Everyone wanted to have a piece of the new elusive genie that is social media.

GENMARK 2010 – The Art of Marketing to Generations-2

By SK | Brand Challenges, Branded Event, Consumer Behavior

Win In and Outside the Classroom – Bushra Iqbal – Brand Manager Always -P&G The brand I’m representing belongs to the other end of the spectrum of Nokia and Djuice when it comes to media omnipresence. Most people are not comfortable with the sanitary napkin ads and would change the channel if another family member

GENMARK 2010 – The Art of Marketing to Generations-1

By SK | Brand Challenges, Branded Event, Consumer Behavior

GenMark 2010 was a marketing seminar organized by Total Communications, an event management company. to highlight the differences between marketing to three different phases of human life : kids, youth and adults and to showcase this differentiation, various luminaries from the marketing and branded world of Pakistan were called in to speak on their respective

Brandasy Launches Restaurants-Uncut.com

By SK | Branded Khapa, Consumer Behavior

The ‘eating-out’ industry of Pakistan has seen an exponential rise in the last couple of years in spite of bone-crushing recession and all the doomsday hoopla. However, Moolah ceases to be an issue for the denizens of this part of the world when it comes to food. People love eating out. Period. But it’s not

Alvi Dental Hospital- Brand Valuation

By SK | Brand Challenges, Consumer Behavior

‘I went to Alvi dental hospital along with a colleague. We went there because we heard Dr. Arif Alvi was one of the best dentists in the city. As such I was expecting a pleasant experience but I was definitely disappointed on that count’, narrates a senior research executive at one of the leading research

Jaane Tu…. Ya Jaane Na – An exercise in shrewd branding

By SK | Branded Connections, Branded Tube, Consumer Behavior, Social Media

The movie sky-rocketed to the top of the charts. Why? Did it have a plausible plot? Hardly? A riveting name? Far from it. Movies with song titles abound but very few end up making a decent sale. A star-studded cast? No. So what was it about this movie that moved the audience so much that