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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:39:05 GMT--><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Rebelations Blog</title><link>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/</link><description>Power Positioning for High Velocity Growth</description><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:01:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright>Rebel Brown 2010</copyright><language>en-US</language><generator>Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</generator><item><title>Desperately Seeking Simple</title><category>Defy Gravity</category><category>high technology</category><category>marketing</category><category>technology marketing</category><dc:creator>Rebel Brown</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:01:47 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/2/6/desperately-seeking-simple.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">505267:6425130:14878651</guid><description><![CDATA[Complex marketing may turn on the technologists - but it only confuses the buyers with the cash.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/rss-comments-entry-14878651.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Deadly Leadership Sins</title><category>Musings</category><category>business</category><category>ego</category><category>leadership</category><category>pride</category><dc:creator>Rebel Brown</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:46:37 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/30/deadly-leadership-sins.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">505267:6425130:14765727</guid><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/rss-comments-entry-14765727.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>How to Use Questions to Drive Marketing Results</title><category>Defy Gravity</category><category>Power Messages</category><category>market strategy</category><category>marketing</category><category>positioning</category><category>technology marketing</category><dc:creator>Rebel Brown</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:17:32 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/16/how-to-use-questions-to-drive-marketing-results.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">505267:6425130:14603786</guid><description><![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.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/rss-comments-entry-14603786.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Lipstick on a Pig</title><category>Defy Gravity</category><category>Rebel Rants</category><category>branding</category><category>marketing</category><category>rebranding</category><dc:creator>Rebel Brown</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:27:07 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/16/lipstick-on-a-pig.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">505267:6425130:14602389</guid><description><![CDATA[Why would anyone think that the key to powering breakthrough success is a new logo and color palette?]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/rss-comments-entry-14602389.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Are You Captain Ahab?</title><category>Defy Gravity</category><category>Find Your Power</category><category>big deals</category><category>marketing</category><category>technology marketing</category><dc:creator>Rebel Brown</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:50:36 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/7/are-you-captain-ahab.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">505267:6425130:14479930</guid><description><![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?]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/rss-comments-entry-14479930.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Marketing Think for the 21st Century</title><category>Lose Your Losers</category><category>PR</category><category>Press releases</category><category>Rebel Rants</category><category>Think Again</category><category>Transformation</category><category>failed PR</category><category>marketing</category><dc:creator>Rebel Brown</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:30:01 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2012/1/2/marketing-think-for-the-21st-century.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">505267:6425130:14411873</guid><description><![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.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/rss-comments-entry-14411873.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Ego, Gravity and TweetDeck</title><category>Defy Gravity</category><category>Follow Your Customer</category><category>Rebel Rants</category><category>Tweetdeck</category><category>Twitter</category><category>marketing</category><category>strategy</category><dc:creator>Rebel Brown</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:54:32 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2011/12/18/ego-gravity-and-tweetdeck.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">505267:6425130:14163438</guid><description><![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.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/rss-comments-entry-14163438.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>The Woolly Marketing Mammoth</title><category>How To's</category><category>Transformation</category><category>emarketing</category><category>marketing</category><dc:creator>Rebel Brown</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:40:28 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2011/12/4/the-woolly-marketing-mammoth.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">505267:6425130:13968864</guid><description><![CDATA[The Woolly Mammoth stuck to his ways and look what happened to him..... are you ready to evolve to attract your Digital Buyers?]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/rss-comments-entry-13968864.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>When Less is Best</title><category>Lose Your Losers</category><category>Think Again</category><category>Transformation</category><category>market strategy</category><category>marketing</category><category>positioning</category><category>product strategy</category><dc:creator>Rebel Brown</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:00:12 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2011/11/21/when-less-is-best.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">505267:6425130:13772476</guid><description><![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?]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/rss-comments-entry-13772476.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>You'd Better Damned Well Know Why!</title><category>B2B</category><category>Follow Your Customer</category><category>customer focus</category><category>market positioning</category><category>marketing</category><category>technology marketing</category><dc:creator>Rebel Brown</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:17:06 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/2011/11/12/youd-better-damned-well-know-why.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">505267:6425130:13692049</guid><description><![CDATA[If you want to be a profitable market leader,  you'd damned well better know WHY your buyers buy.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rebelbrown.com/rebelations/rss-comments-entry-13692049.xml</wfw:commentRss></item></channel></rss>
