• What Makes a Strong Brand?

    March 17, 2014

    The term “brand” has been used to describe everything from company logos to corporate gestalt. In fact, brand is an amalgamation of things including the name or symbol used to identify your company, products and services, the essence and values of your company as well as the assets and liabilities …

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  • Global Branding On Ice

    March 12, 2014

    When you're marketing a global brand, you need to be on your toes—especially when you’re promoting Disney On Ice. Produced by Feld Entertainment, the visual tour below gives you a sense of how our original materials migrated as the show made its way around the world. I’ve always been fascinating by …

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  • Engaging a Global Workforce

    March 10, 2014

    No matter what your business challenges are, the first step is always to build a connection between your employees and your brand. To do this well, you need to provide a meaningful answer to the question “What’s in it for me?”

    We’ve all heard the stats—disengaged employees cost companies billions …

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  • Brand. It’s All Global, Isn’t It?

    March 03, 2014

    Brand is such a far reaching term, and its meaning has evolved dramatically over the past decades. Years ago, brand most likely referred to the logo or identifier a company used to distinguish itself in the marketplace, plain and simple. But when consumers began seeing more brands in more marketing …

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  • Say Something Stupid

    December 02, 2013

    After 15 years of launching and leading companies in and around the creative space, I’ve learned a few things that are pretty unintuitive. For example, start-ups need less money, not more—they only go and spend it. And don’t rely on “experts”—they often only know how (or want) to do their one …

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  • What is “Creative”?

    September 23, 2013

    As a child, I was told I was creative—so I believed it. Aren’t all kids creative though? I did have a creative thought process and because I loved all that was art I was labeled “creative.” I loved to make things, explore, sort, compile lists, play games and rearrange the kitchen cabinets. I drew …

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  • I Saw It All

    September 18, 2013

    The IHAF Awards Show judging event took place last week. For a full day, six judges gathered to evaluate and assess, calculate and debate—selecting category winners and one Best of Show. Here’s what Will Burns had say about the day.

    “I saw sharks. I saw bugs. I saw boxing gloves, and almost used …

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  • Want to be Creative? Make Some Room.

    September 16, 2013

    My friends and I went out to dinner recently at a fun restaurant in Providence, RI. It was one of those places that offers a “chef’s choice prix fixe”—usually that day’s find at the farmer’s market combined with the chef’s inspiration. When a talented chef at a top restaurant can apply her …

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  • The Work Behind Creativity

    September 11, 2013

    This month IHAF is all about creativity and while we certainly would love to talk through all the ways we love to be creative, we have found, as you may have as well, that the creative process often starts as not that creative at all.

    It is typical that the best creative emerges out of extensive …

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  • Content Creation Intermediation

    September 09, 2013

    • by IHAF Staff

    The IHAF team is almost entirely focused on designing and executing programming and content to enable the success of our members. We plan events, schedule speakers, collect data, issue reports, develop tools, facilitate discussions, enable networking—all of which is intended to advance the internal …

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