Monthly Archive for May, 2008

This Master’s Thesis Challenges Everything You Know about Branding!

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I uploaded my Master’s Thesis, called A CONCEPT ANALYSIS ON MODERN BRANDING – Defining Key Concepts in Mind-Share, Emotional, Viral, and Cultural Branding, to my server. It’s 124 pages all in all, and it received the grade 80/100 from the Helsinki School of Economics’ marketing department (read: a good grade).

Why should you read the thesis? Well…

  • if you think brand managers can totally control their brands, then you need to read this thesis
  • if you think consumers are in total control of brands, then you need to read this thesis
  • if you want to know what should you take into account when your brand matures and why, then you need to read this thesis
  • if you want to understand why advertising constantly keeps losing its power and what you can do about it, then you need to read this thesis
  • if you want to know why people driven brands seem to succeed where as more resource-rich and bigger brands are faltering, then you need to read this thesis
  • if you’re want to know why forgetting about making money for a while might be the best business decision you’ll ever make, then you need to read this thesis
  • if you want to know what Viral Branding REALLY means, and what it means for your business, then you need to read this thesis
  • and above all, if you think that a “brand” is just “value added to a product”, then you DEFINITELY need to read this thesis

And as a teaser, here is the main finding of my thesis, communicated as shortly as I possibly can in visual format:
Henri Weijo's Master's Thesis' main finding

Enjoy, and please give feedback and challenge my ideas, if you dare!

Ownership of culture and the “Amen” break

Catered authenticity gone wrong

Are you worthy of your brand?