by Minter Dial | Sep 18, 2015 | New Tech
BlaBlaCar , which is a service that connects drivers and people prepared to pay to share the ride, has just received a $200 million VC injection which puts them at a $1.6B valuation (via VentureBeat). As such, it has become the top French start-up success story and is...
by Minter Dial | Sep 6, 2015 | Minter Dialogue, Podcast
Minter Dialogue Episode #162 This interview is with Mark Schaefer, the globally recognized author, educator and speaker on marketing strategy. Author of 5 best-selling marketing books, including the Tao of Twitter, Return on Influence and, this year, Content Code,...
by Minter Dial | Sep 4, 2015 | Branding
A friend who was writing a dissertation asked me to respond to a few questions on digital marketing for luxury brands. Herewith are the questions and answers I gave. Q: Is it vital for luxury brands to go beyond having a mere online presence (i.e. a Facebook page),...
by Minter Dial | May 19, 2015 | Branding
Most of the corporate finance and marketing courses that I followed in business school back in 1992-3 talked about the need to extract value from one’s activities. It is a founding principle of great branding that says that marketing is the art of adding value....
by Minter Dial | Mar 5, 2015 | Business
It is a burgeoning reality that businesses need to work faster, better and with greater agility. Big businesses are, for the most part, undergoing a necessary transformation. As part of the “agile” spirit, big companies are needing not only to work in...