Let’s be honest: there are typically two business attitudes about branding. One, those that are hyper focused on building and keeping a high quality brand, and two, those that don’t see the point of all the hype. At its essence your brand identity is what people believe about you; it embodies the core of your reputation. And yet, this can be a very different perception than what you know to be true about you and the product/service you provide. Here’s why you should care
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... Read more »Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) are facing a brave new world. As online commerce, the Internet of Things, automation, cloud computing, mobile devices and social media open new doors for sales, distribution, operations, and customer service, they also create new opportunities for criminals
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... Read more »A few weeks ago, I put out the call on Twitter that I wanted to write an investment manager agony column. Of course, in the deluge of Mad King tweets that seem govern both foreign and domestic affairs of late, that call went largely unnoticed. I was beginning to agonize over the general lack of agony when I heard a primal scream from the darkness – otherwise known as a Twitter DM
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