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27th June 2006

Brand genericide

“Harris Interactive recently released a list of products ranked by brand equity, a measure of the brand’s popularity with US consumers… Marketing can be a double-edged sword. The companies who manufacture these products have done a fantastic job in marketing these products, so fantastic in some cases that the brand name is in danger of becoming a genericized trademark.”

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27th June 2006

How to Plan Manpower on a Web Team

“It can be tricky to identify the right levels of manpower for a web team. Indeed, many organisations badly underestimate the amount of work required to keep their sites operating smoothly–they perhaps imagine that once a website is put live, it magically looks after itself. As a result, only the barest bones of proper staffing are put in place. Fortunately, the problem of defining the number of people required on a web team is not insurmountable. A useful device for arriving at a good answer is the concept of ‘website scale.’”

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