An experiment in “un-branding” to promote community health Beg to Differ noticed this morning that Australia is planning to ban all logos and distinctive design elements from cigarette packaging. The point: to make them less attractive to smokers. The question: will it work? Generic packaging According to the UK Daily Mail, quoting the Australian newspaper: [...]

“I’m a slightly mad aristocrat and I’m okay with that” In this Beg to Differ: a shocking personal revelation from the Big Differ, who wonders if “Personal Branding” is too narrow to capture the range of authentic, but playful, roles we play in our professional lives. Confession: I’m leading a double life Yes it’s true. [...]

The true job of “packaging” (hint: it’s not just to wrap stuff) Beg to Differ is focusing on a great blog post today by Seth Godin which asks a question we all need to ask ourselves: “does your packaging do its job”? But of course when Beg to Differ (and Seth)  thinks about “packaging” we [...]

Apparently iPad has been enhancing feature sets for a while…. So of course, Beg to Differ was riveted on Wednesday by “The Big Speech”. No, not the State of the Union Address: it was the unveiling of a new product by Apple that had our attention. And apparently, we weren’t the only ones watching: so were trademark lawyers [...]

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 [...]

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 – [...]