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Machines that go “ping”: a hospital branding adventure

The first Beg to Differ Branding Field Trip. Last week, I blogged on Beg to Differ about the birth of my son. Thank you all for your best wishes and brilliant thoughts on this incredibly moving experience for my wife and other two kids. But on the silly side of my brain, the whole 3 days [...]

Favourite blog posts of 2009: October & November

Part 3 of our series on our favourite posts of 2009″ October and November held a few more pleasant surprises for us here at Beg to Differ – from our Chicken Sandwich series to our first Slideshare cross-over hit, to  a Seussian Twitter phenomena, we continue to be surprised by the enthuisiastic response of our [...]

Brand Brief: Monsters in Smart Cars; Saints on Harleys

Are we really the brand we drive? A few minutes ago, while I was driving home from my son’s daycare Halloween parade (and yes, he wore his bat costume again) I got cut off on the road by an aggressive jerk. Weaving in and out of traffic, speeding, talking on a cell phone, throwing a [...]

Dragons, edible play dough, and three-letter abbreviations – oh my!

Company makes dough on the Den while another eats it. Beg to Differ is going to focus on a beauty and the beast story of two hometown brands that showed up on Dragon’s Den last night, with very different results. One plucky little company made a pile of money from investors, while the other – [...]

The difference between Identity, Branding, & Brand explained – in “Twitterese”

With an involuntary guest appearance from Chris Brogan (thanks Chris!) In Monday’s post, I  critiqued the term “Personal Branding” which generated a fairly lively discussion – including input from the patron saint of “Personal Brand Experts” Dan Schawbel. But it got me thinking about some basic terminology I use all the time – in particular the [...]

Sorry Shakespeare: names matter – for roses & chicken sandwiches (2)

Part 2 of the Chicken Sandwich series on product names Yesterday,  in “how to name a chicken sandwich“, Beg to Differ talked about the first steps in the process of naming the new Big Fresh chicken sandwich from KFC in Canada. Today, we tackle another big question we often get asked: why worry about names [...]