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Gary Bembridge Articles

Gary Bembridge Marketing and Travel Blogger, Podcaster and Consultant. 30+ years experience building brands at Unilever and Johnson & Johnson. My Marketing Podcast won European Podcast Awards (Business) the last 2 years.

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You Cannot Win A Race Standing Still. Yet So Many Brands Try To. How To Avoid It.

Gary Bembridge November 5, 2012

A Well Defined Competitive Set Is A Competitive Advantage

Gary Bembridge October 9, 2012

Avoid The 2 Most Common Temptations When Trying to Attract People to Your Brand

Gary Bembridge September 6, 2012

How To Ensure You Are the 1% of New Brands That Survive: Repeat!

Gary Bembridge August 10, 2012
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3 Questions You Must Answer to Stop Your Business Going The Way of the Stagecoach!

Gary Bembridge July 16, 2012
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Can A Brand Belief Help You To Be More Successful In Today’s Tough Environment?

Gary Bembridge June 14, 2012
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Brands Are Created By Visionaries, Destroyed By Caretakers. What Are You?

Gary Bembridge May 2, 2012
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Building Your Business Through Blogs: 4 Reasons Why It Is Getting More Important

Gary Bembridge April 19, 2012

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Gary Bembridge April 9, 2012

5 Things The Best Boss I Ever Had Taught Me About Being A Great Manager And Leader

Gary Bembridge March 30, 2012

If Your Company Or Brand Went Out Of Business, Would Anyone Really Notice Or Care?

Gary Bembridge March 20, 2012

Marketing: Time To Be Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful?

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In 1957, Vance Packard’s The Hidden Persuaders told America that supermarkets had hired motivational researchers to slow shoppers’ eye-blink rates from 32 a minute to 14 in the cereal aisle — a “hypnoidal trance” said to lift impulse buys by a third, and the panic it set off drove the first federal scrutiny of subliminal selling

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 30, 2026

When Ed Catmull instituted the Braintrust at Pixar in the late 1990s, the rule was that the assembled directors could critique any film in development but had zero authority to mandate changes — Catmull argued that the moment feedback carried power, honest feedback would disappear from the room within one meeting

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 30, 2026
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When Warren Buffett bought Berkshire Hathaway in 1965, it was a failing New England textile mill — he later called the purchase the worst trade of his life and estimated the decision to use it as his holding company instead of starting fresh cost shareholders roughly $200 billion in compounded returns

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 30, 2026
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As company lore tells it, a worker at Procter & Gamble’s Cincinnati factory left a soap-mixing machine running through lunch in 1879 — the air-whipped batch floated in customer washbasins, complaints arrived asking for more of the floating soap, and Ivory’s ’99 and 44/100 percent pure’ campaign was built on what looked like a mistake

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 30, 2026
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