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Coming This Year: A New Chapter

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Coin - Leave a comment

[Cache #225] — By Andris Pone – President, Coin Branding Hola from Havana, Cuba, where I am enduring a two-week sequester to write a new book. Conditions have been challenging. Yesterday it was so cold I had to turn the fan off. read more

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WestJet: Cockpits and Cocktails Don’t Mix

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Coin - 6 Comments

[Cache #198] By Andris Pone President, Coin Branding — What is a flight deck? Why, it’s a place you drink booze, of course.  At a Blue Jays game, in the enormous stand-up bar overlooking centre field, into which crowd hundreds of fans for read more

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WestJet and the High Cost of Ownership

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Coin - Leave a comment

[Cache #191] By Andris Pone President, Coin Branding — It is the Holy Grail of brand positioning:  for your target audience to instantly, unanimously associate you with one or perhaps two positive words. Exceedingly few brands – whether organization, product, service or personal read more

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“Thank you for that stunning penetration into the obvious.”

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Coin - Leave a comment

[Cache #182] These were the cutting words of a professor of mine at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, which he had borrowed from an acerbic professor from his own undergraduate days. The class was Commercial Law, and the expression seemed read more

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Why We Hate – And Love – Air Canada

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Coin - Leave a comment

[Cache – #154] Why do we hate Air Canada? Answer:  We don’t.  The truth is that we love to hate them.  Even knowing that they drop our bags from a considerable height, it cannot be that we have pure hatred in our hearts if read more

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Listen: WestJet’s “Christmas Miracle”: CBC Radio One interview with Andris Pone

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Coin - Leave a comment

Aired Monday December 16, 2013 Click here to listen to the interview:  000e3591      

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WestJet: Love thyself

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Coin - 5 Comments

[Cache – #85] After 16 years of building a universally-respected brand, does WestJet nonetheless have a serious self-esteem problem?  Why else would they even consider excluding WestJet, or even a reference to it, from the name of their soon-to-be-launched regional airline? read more

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The results are in: Apple, Porter are the decade’s top brands

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Coin - Leave a comment

It’s Apple in a landslide. Thanks to those who participated in this poll, which asked: Based on positioning and consistency, which brand do you think is the best of the decade? Here are the results as of December 31: Apple read more

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Top 10 Best Brands of the Decade

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Coin - Leave a comment

The essence of branding is being different. The logic is simple: if you hope to outperform competitors, you must give customers reasons to do business with you instead of someone else. And so you must clearly articulate these reasons in read more

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