Tag: Consumer influence on brand success


Consumers Don’t Create Brands, Brands Create Brands!

January 7th, 2014 | tonyatilia, Partner, Maxim Partners Inc.

Let’s stop the craziness.

After sitting on the sidelines attending a variety of industry conferences over the past five years and listening to more than one pundit state emphatically that companies don’t create brands customers do, it’s time to call balderdash.

Times have changed but brand creation has not. If companies have relegated the creation, management and nourishing of brands to consumers I’d argue they’re just plain lazy.

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