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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:12:16 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Rebelations Blog</title><subtitle>Blog</subtitle><id>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/atom.xml"/><updated>2012-02-22T05:20:36Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Dear Pinterest</title><category term="Zero Gravity Business"/><category term="pinterest"/><category term="strategy"/><id>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/2/20/dear-pinterest.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/2/20/dear-pinterest.html"/><author><name>Rebel Brown</name></author><published>2012-02-20T08:00:07Z</published><updated>2012-02-20T08:00:07Z</updated></entry><entry><title>Desperately Seeking Simple</title><category term="Defy Gravity"/><category term="high technology"/><category term="marketing"/><category term="technology marketing"/><id>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/2/6/desperately-seeking-simple.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/2/6/desperately-seeking-simple.html"/><author><name>Rebel Brown</name></author><published>2012-02-06T08:01:47Z</published><updated>2012-02-06T08:01:47Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Complex marketing may turn on the technologists - but it only confuses the buyers with the cash.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Deadly Leadership Sins</title><category term="Musings"/><category term="business"/><category term="ego"/><category term="leadership"/><category term="pride"/><id>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/30/deadly-leadership-sins.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/30/deadly-leadership-sins.html"/><author><name>Rebel Brown</name></author><published>2012-01-30T15:46:37Z</published><updated>2012-01-30T15:46:37Z</updated></entry><entry><title>How to Use Questions to Drive Marketing Results</title><category term="Defy Gravity"/><category term="Power Messages"/><category term="market strategy"/><category term="marketing"/><category term="positioning"/><category term="technology marketing"/><id>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/16/how-to-use-questions-to-drive-marketing-results.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/16/how-to-use-questions-to-drive-marketing-results.html"/><author><name>Rebel Brown</name></author><published>2012-01-16T18:17:32Z</published><updated>2012-01-16T18:17:32Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[We are all humans and business.  When marketers recognize and leverage that fact -  we achieve  increased success.  Questions are just one of the approaches that leverage human nature to drive powerful marketing and sales results.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Lipstick on a Pig</title><category term="Defy Gravity"/><category term="Rebel Rants"/><category term="branding"/><category term="marketing"/><category term="rebranding"/><id>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/16/lipstick-on-a-pig.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/16/lipstick-on-a-pig.html"/><author><name>Rebel Brown</name></author><published>2012-01-16T16:27:07Z</published><updated>2012-01-16T16:27:07Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Why would anyone think that the key to powering breakthrough success is a new logo and color palette?]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Are You Captain Ahab?</title><category term="Defy Gravity"/><category term="Find Your Power"/><category term="big deals"/><category term="marketing"/><category term="technology marketing"/><id>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/7/are-you-captain-ahab.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/7/are-you-captain-ahab.html"/><author><name>Rebel Brown</name></author><published>2012-01-07T16:50:36Z</published><updated>2012-01-07T16:50:36Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Why on earth would anyone directly attack a huge in-place competitor, much less try to shift an established market in one big swoop?]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Marketing Think for the 21st Century</title><category term="Lose Your Losers"/><category term="PR"/><category term="Press releases"/><category term="Rebel Rants"/><category term="Think Again"/><category term="Transformation"/><category term="failed PR"/><category term="marketing"/><id>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/2/marketing-think-for-the-21st-century.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/2/marketing-think-for-the-21st-century.html"/><author><name>Rebel Brown</name></author><published>2012-01-02T19:30:01Z</published><updated>2012-01-02T19:30:01Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Never before has it been so important to transform our Marketing Think.

Our economy changed, our markets shifted, our targets and their buying patterns advanced, access to information became ubiquitous.... even as many marketers held on to the way we've always done it.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Ego, Gravity and TweetDeck</title><category term="Defy Gravity"/><category term="Follow Your Customer"/><category term="Rebel Rants"/><category term="Tweetdeck"/><category term="Twitter"/><category term="marketing"/><category term="strategy"/><id>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2011/12/18/ego-gravity-and-tweetdeck.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2011/12/18/ego-gravity-and-tweetdeck.html"/><author><name>Rebel Brown</name></author><published>2011-12-18T18:54:32Z</published><updated>2011-12-18T18:54:32Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[We grow successful businesses thanks to our Value as it is perceived by our buyers.  When we move to force our brands, our ways, our limitations on our users and promote that as Value - that's ego.  And above all other Gravities, Ego will create the downdraft that begins a downward spiral. Ego helps us create major  Gravity by focusing on ourselves instead of our markets.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>The Woolly Marketing Mammoth</title><category term="How To's"/><category term="Transformation"/><category term="emarketing"/><category term="marketing"/><id>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2011/12/4/the-woolly-marketing-mammoth.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2011/12/4/the-woolly-marketing-mammoth.html"/><author><name>Rebel Brown</name></author><published>2011-12-04T15:40:28Z</published><updated>2011-12-04T15:40:28Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[The Woolly Mammoth stuck to his ways and look what happened to him..... are you ready to evolve to attract your Digital Buyers?]]></summary></entry><entry><title>When Less is Best</title><category term="Lose Your Losers"/><category term="Think Again"/><category term="Transformation"/><category term="market strategy"/><category term="marketing"/><category term="positioning"/><category term="product strategy"/><id>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2011/11/21/when-less-is-best.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2011/11/21/when-less-is-best.html"/><author><name>Rebel Brown</name></author><published>2011-11-21T08:00:12Z</published><updated>2011-11-21T08:00:12Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[It's great to want to be expansive in our businesses. That's how we grow.  That's how we become market leaders.  But true market leaders do anything and everything they can to mask their complexity from their buyers.  They know the secret to success is simplicity.   How simple are you?]]></summary></entry></feed>
