Branding and marketing consulting

JY&A Consulting
JYA Creative
Branding, marketing strategy and global strategy, with the world’s leading experts including Jack Yan, Stefan Engeseth, Demian Rosenblatt and others.

Jack Yan
Our founder’s personal site with a summary of his work

Insight Creative
A New Zealand strategic creative design agency based in Auckland and Wellington

Johnnie Moore
The site of Johnnie Moore, dedicated to providing authenticity in marketing.

Simon Anholt
One of the leading experts on nation branding, and an independent policy adviser, has relaunched his site, with his notes, press clippings and other information

Ariago
Specialists in design and branding for emerging and established companies, based in California

Brandingmag
A branding publication provoking deeper thought about the profession and its place in the wider culture

Corporate Identity Portal
A Germany-focused portal on identity and branding, with news, links and profiles

Cross-Border Communications
CBC is a full-service business-to-business advertising agency based in central København, providing marketing communications services to international businesses

Group Partners
Home to an advanced contextual mapping method used for branding and management

Wolff Olins
Arguably one of the pioneers. HQed in London, Wolff Olins literally wrote the book on corporate identity

 

Business and branding resources


Authentically You

Highly recommended by us: Authentically You is a life and career coaching agency based in Wellington, New Zealand that works with people wanting to make positive changes in their lives, with an evidence-based approach

Detective Marketing
From one of Sweden's talented marketing consultants and speakers, Stefan Engeseth. Check out the site behind the books, have a chance to interact and take their concepts further. Now with its own blog

Beyond Branding
One of the 2000s’ great branding books, with a collection of articles by members of the Medinge Group. Get a free Chapter 1 download. The pre-2006 blog is still there, too

Business Ethics
Business Ethics, celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2002, is arguably the world's best thought-out periodical on the subject

Business for Social Responsibility
This organization helps member companies achieve ethical aims through programmes and workshops, conferences and library resources

Business in the Community
A site promoting corporate social responsibility and companies that champion it

CAP
CAP Online

JY&A Consulting's magazine on design, business and marketing, with features from CAP magazine, plus web-exclusive articles, published in the 1990s and 2000s

The Cluetrain Manifesto
Markets are conversations. The Cluetrain Manifesto tries to humanize the process, stating, inter alia, that markets consist of human beings, not demographic groups. How can these conversations be enhanced for the betterment of all? See also the World Café

Idealog
More than a business magazine, Idealog plans events and communities

Inc. Online
Inc. magazine is now online, with regular departments and web-exclusive features

Logo Lounge
A tidy and informative site for identity and branding news and features

Monocle
London-HQed business, culture and design magazine founded by Wallpaper’s Tyler Brûlé. We particularly love the grid approach to design—classical and clean—as well as the Plantin typeface (recommended by Alistair Kwun)

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
Programmes and lectures based around the ideas of global citizenship and enterprise

Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (Sristi)
Indian NGO set up to help inventors and ecopreneurs engaged in conserving biodiversity

The World Café
A good metaphor for what this site tries to do: create living conversations around questions that matter, so we can share our discoveries and learn from one another. Founded on the premise that collaboration is key to human development today

 

Legal information

Lawfuel
‘Legal business news for the high-powered professional’: this site provides a digest of legal information through email (21,000 subscribers), with archives at the site. Digestible, easily accessed information and neatly presented

 

Management institutes

The Chartered Management Institute
Everyone’s heard of a chartered accountant. The CMI, a charity incorporated by Royal Charter, extends a similar qualification to professional managers. A degree-level qualification is offered

 

Marketing and advertising resources

Marknadsfõreningen i Stockholm
The Marknadsfõreningen i Stockholm (MIS), or the Stockholm Marketing Association, is pivotal in arranging marketing seminars and related events in the city

A-Clue.com
Business journalist and author Dana Blankenhorn’s site on ecommerce insights—but more often than not he comes up with insights that extend well beyond this area, into policy and global justice. Realism backed with lucid arguments

Ads of the World
Commercial advertising archive, featuring some of the best creatives globally

Advertising Age Online
All the best that you've come to expect from Ad Age

Airodyssey.net
On airlines, air-related movies and airline TV commercials (which is how we found it). Check out the Qantas TVC page for versions of the ‘I Still Call Australia Home’ song

Copywriter.co.uk
A useful resource for creative marketers: there are tips, samples, ads, lists of contacts and more

Marketing Week
Britain's Marketing Week magazine's online site

Media Culpa
A blog with a Swedish view on marketing and PR

 

Speakers

Ovations
Australia-based motivational speakers’ bureau

 

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