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This blog originally appeared in Fast Company. From Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s to Sony’s pink speaker balls to exoplanets, crowdsourcing for...
04.17.2013
Midol.  Lysol.  Maybelline.  Kodak.  Listerine.  Oreo.  Monsanto (edit: not a coined name; see comment below). What do these brand names...
03.28.2013
The Business Marketing Association of Northern California very kindly invited me to speak again at their monthly mixer. Here’s the...
02.09.2012
Hyatt is offering a very helpful and appealing new type of room, designed for allergy sufferers: “Respire by Hyatt —...
05.03.2011
OK, I’ve been whitening my teeth lately, so I’ve been paying more attention to the naming of tooth whitening products....
03.10.2011
While education policy has been a heated topic for the last decade, I wanted to look at recent government programs...
03.09.2011
It’s not easy to judge potential brand name candidates when all you have is a list of names on a...
10.14.2010
This item was originally published on October 11th, 2010 at Fast Company. Let me start this blog with a gratuitously...
10.13.2010
Allow me to invite you to hear me speak live and in person! I’ll be in Las Vegas on Thursday...
10.06.2010
If you haven’t already noticed, we recently launched our new website and blog format. We worked closely with design genius...
10.05.2010

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