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Charulata shows it’s never too late to brand yourself
Charulata Patel is the 87 year old who shot to fame after pictures of Virat Kohli visiting her in the stands went viral. Pepsi immediately capitalised on her personal brand in a new ad. Pepsi and Charulata are benefiting from the rub-off of the huge star value of Virat Kohli. According to Duff & Phelps, his brand is valued at $170 million. How can you build your brand value to at least a fraction of that?
The inevitable rise and fall of your career
You should plan to have 2 (or more) distinct careers. In the first one you rely on fluid intelligence and in the second one on crystallised intelligence, areas like teaching, mentoring, strategy and leadership. The key to remaining “successful’ is to understand when you’ve overstayed your time in the fluid intelligence arena and start building towards your next avatar where you purvey wisdom.
Priyanka is a skinfluencer. Build your own Influencer Framework
I had never heard of Obagi - a skincare firm - until Priyanka Chopra became its brand ambassador. She uses #skinfluence as one of...
Signs that your brand has mid-life crisis
Facebook is jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon with plans to launch a wallet based on the Libra network next year. US regulators have promptly...
The Kindness of Strangers
In the pre-Internet world sitting in Trichy my friend and I wanted to research this unknown college called Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. We...
Train brands like Kim K
Kim Kardashian tweeted that she had a problem with Jack In the Box. She then clarified that it wasn’t her, personally, but that she...
Why Brand India Matters
When Indian IT was still not a thing, one brand decided to be different. Unlike Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Patni and others who made their...
Time is the new oil
Even as scientists find alternatives for oil, the one resource that cannot be replicated or synthesised remains time. Today a popular term is “time-poor”. It...
I’m going on an adventure
I was one of around 3000 tourists who visited Hobbiton today. Hobbiton is Middle Earth. Well, ok, not quite, but it’s the set from the Lord...
Did Bollywood really Beat PewDiePie?
T-Series - which hosts Bollywood videos edged out PewDiePie as the channel with the mostest. Most number of subscribers, that is. They are both at 90...