Perception Drivers Blog

When reviewing assets on a balance sheet, those with even basic accounting knowledge will zero in on line items such as cash, cash equivalents and inventories.  

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Each day, we are deluged with messages—digital and social media posts, as well as e-marketing blasts, which blur indistinguishably, sap our attention spans, and fall flat in their intended purposes of capturing mindshare and being memorable.  

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One of our staff members is a docent at the Skirball Museum and Cultural Center in Los Angeles, which hosted the exhibition “Houdini: Art and Magic” As a result of her participation, we learned that Harry Houdini was an early, and very effective, practitioner of marketing.  He was so successful, in fact, that he remains an American icon – as famed as Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh-- 85 years after his death on Halloween, 1926.  

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Today’s trend toward political correctness can be a bonanza for public relations experts when corporations or their spokespersons take actions that blossom into PR disasters. Witness the dust-up over the president of Chick-fil-A’s anti-gay marriage statements. A trip back in time to the accompanying ads of the 1950s and 60s provides a reality check on how muchtimes have changed, certainly for the better with respect to religious, racial, gender and sexual-preference inclusion (a certain chicken sandwich purveyor's remarks notwithstanding).  

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Never underestimate the ability of a powerful message to influence public opinion and to achieve specific goals. Time Magazine piece on Downtown L.A.’s renaissance illustrates the benefits of staying “on message”—in this case for more than a decade.   

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Seemingly forgotten are the days when the words “Cola Wars” implied Coca-Cola and Pepsi taste tests and new-fangled formulations. (Who can forget the New Coke marketing “train wreck?”) These days, however, the hunters—mostly for each other’s market share to quench consumers’ collective thirst—have become the hunted.  

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Oops! Anyone watching the live TV coverage of the Supreme Court ruling on the new healthcare law can understand the pressure on the media to quickly understand the ruling and report it correctly. 

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We’re always on the watch for excellent communications programs. One of the best we've seen in a long time is the cause marketing and issue-education campaign in support of Autism Awareness Month (AAM), which kicked off with a commemorative day on April 2 and built momentum through the month.  

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If you want to see what your house may look like in tomorrow’s energy-efficient world, head downtown to a parking lot in Los Angeles’s Arts District.  

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