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07/02/2019, By Hasan Fadlallah
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25/04/2018, By Hasan Fadlallah
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04/04/2018, By Hasan Fadlallah
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29/03/2018, By Hasan Fadlallah
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11/02/2018, By Hasan Fadlallah
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19/09/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Customer Retention – The Lost Art (And Science) Of Marketing
05/09/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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What Ryan Lochte Can Teach Us About Personal Branding
25/08/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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22/08/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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How to Create Content for Every Stage of the Buyer's Journey
18/08/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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How to Create an Effective Content Marketing Strategy for 2016
07/08/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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26/07/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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14/07/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
Voice search usage is seeing unprecedented growth, with personal assistant devices leading the way....
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03/07/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Me and My Big Fat Ego
27/06/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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27/06/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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15/06/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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15/06/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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14/06/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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08/06/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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30/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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26/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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2016 Logo Design Trends & Inspiration | JUST™ Creative
23/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
A forecast and prediction of the top best logos of 2016 and where logo design trends are heading. Stay ahead of the branding & identity curv...
Design Thinking Comes of Age
19/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
The approach, once used primarily in product design, is now infusing corporate culture....
Scrum Master in an Agile World
16/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
At Brand Lounge, we deeply understand the immense power of creativity. It is integral to our growth and the success of our clients. Embarki...
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16/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Story for Business: How to Create Stories That Move People to Act : Social Media Examiner
13/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
Social Media Marketing Podcast 193. In this episode Park Howell will explore the mechanics of storytelling, a craft every marketer should ma...
Digital Marketing: Top 100 Influencers and Brands
09/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
An influencer analysis report identifying the top 100 most influential brands and individuals driving engagement in Digital Marketing in 201...
Are your designers ready for the MENA media content boom?
09/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
The demand for locally generated, Arabic content across the GCC and MENA region as a whole, is greatly outstripping supply....
31 Experts Give Their Best Small Business Tips for Standing Out on Social Media
06/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
Struggling to get noticed on social media? It's not easy! In this article, 31 experts give their best small business tips for standing out o...
How to Create Perfect Color Combinations - Designmodo
04/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
One of the most challenging and tricky parts of the design process can be choosing a color palette that represents your brand or message, wh...
Middle East Vs the World. Who Branded It Better?
04/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
The Middle East has been a global trading hub for centuries, facilitating the movement of international brands, many of which have built the...
The UX/UI Series (Intro)
03/05/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
Development is a constant balancing act, toggling between maintaining a microscopic view of the finer details and a telescopic view of the b...
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15/03/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Why HR management is a critical component of any brand strategy
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6 Social Media Trends That Will Transform Your Business
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7 Social Media Myths That Cripple Marketing Campaigns
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Next-Gen Social Analytics Are Transforming Digital Marketing
11/03/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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What Employer Branding Is — and What It Isn’t
10/03/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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The Omnichannel Checklist
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Here's our omnichannel checklist, four signs you're doing omnichannel right....
Why Artists Love Ampersands
09/03/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Design Essentials: Color in Brand Identity Design - HOW Design
07/03/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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07/03/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Four Practical Segmentation Tips for B2B Marketers
04/03/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
Segmentation - Here are four ways segmentation can improve demand generation—and four practical tips on what and how to segment....
Customer Care Is Your Best Marketing Strategy
04/03/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Why brand guidelines are key to effective marketing
04/03/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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What is brand activation & why do you need it?
03/03/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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20+ of the best packaging designs ever
02/03/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Emirates retains position as most valuable airline brand
01/03/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
Emirates has come out on top again as the world’s most valuable airline brand, according to the 2016 Brand Finance Global 500 report....
The role of digital in the world of branding
29/02/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Next-Gen social analytics are transforming digital marketing
29/02/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
It wasn't so long ago that social media analytics meant looking at one-off engagements—fans, followers, likes—and using this info to mak...
Did Uber take a wrong turn with its rebrand?
24/02/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah and Nadia Kruger
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Brand Lounge Celebrate 10th Anniversary with a Makeover
16/02/2016, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Death by Digital. How to be a Survivor
14/12/2015, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Will Your Brand Survive the Digital Paradigm?
02/07/2015, By Hasan Fadlallah
Just in case you didn’t get the memo (because we were still sending “memos” when this was news) there’s a digital revolution going o...
How Boring Are You?
02/06/2015, By Hasan Fadlallah
On a scale of one to ten, where do you think your boring rating lies? It’s a fact of life that boring people don’t have a lot of friends...
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20/09/2014, By Hasan Fadlallah
The power of the global economy has created an environment where countries have to begin to see themselves as a branding and marketing probl...
When Changing Your Name is Your Only Choice
16/09/2014, By Hasan Fadlallah
ApplePay and Google Wallet have snared most of the recent attention in the world of “digital wallets.” But a 4-year-old brand, jointly r...
Three Good Reasons to Hire a Branding Agency in Dubai
04/05/2014, By Hasan Fadlallah
It is the place to do business in: Dubai. With jaw-dropping infrastructures, business-friendly policies, growing markets, and generally, the...
The Essential Steps to Hiring Dubai Marketing Companies
04/05/2014, By Hasan Fadlallah
Every business in Dubai needs a professional marketing company. The practical entrepreneur, whose business is still being developed, might n...
How to Find The Right Marketing Companies in UAE
04/05/2014, By Hasan Fadlallah
Enormous billboards. Huge projects splashed across high-rise buildings. Everywhere you look in Dubai and elsewhere in the UAE, there is some...
Strategies of a Clever Branding Agency: Dubai Companies Being First
24/03/2014, By Hasan Fadlallah
Thousands. Hundreds. Dozens. That's the number of variations of any given product available on the marketplace today. Swing by your local su...
How to Win The Engagement War: Factors to Consider
24/03/2014, By Hasan Fadlallah
Successful businesses know that to thrive (and not just survive) in the highly competitive environment of the Middle East business hub, it...
Awareness and Branding: Dubai Consumers and How They Make Choices
24/03/2014, By Hasan Fadlallah
Today's consumers are spoilt for choice. Examining options for products to purchase or services to experience has never been easier than in ...
Short and Sweet
11/03/2014, By Hasan Fadlallah
If you watch a lot of television, you may have noticed that one-word titles are all the rage these days. There’s Glee and Nashville, Homel...
And the Oscar for Engagement Goes to. . .
27/02/2014, By Hasan Fadlallah
With the Oscars coming up, we conducted our annual Academy Awards Ad Engagement Study to see who’ll be winning the advertising portion of ...
Coping with the Competition
26/02/2014, By Hasan Fadlallah
I’ve been in the marketing business for over 40 years. I’ve seen the good old times and the difficult new times. When people ask me what...
New Trends You Should Leverage in 2014
04/12/2013, By Hasan Fadlallah
It was management consultant, Peter Drucker, who advised the best way to predict the future was to create it. But as every marketer knows, c...
The Ten Commandments of Marketing
27/10/2013, By Hasan Fadlallah
The commandments do not come from a mountain top. Lo it were that easy. They come from many years of experience in categories from caskets t...
The Critical Word Being Brand
27/10/2013, By Hasan Fadlallah
For those of you out there who think brand and fashion has broken up and don't even go to the same parties anymore, think again. Brand conti...
The Ultimate Question of Brand, the Consumer Marketplace & Everything
20/10/2013, By Hasan Fadlallah
This is it: “What do consumers expect?” It comes in different forms, with marketers wondering “What do consumers really want in my cat...
Tales from the Marketing Wars (2)
28/05/2013, By Hasan Fadlallah
Chief marketing officers (CMOs) have a shorter tenure than NFL coaches. In fact, as you can see by the chart, they barely get beyond two yea...
The Critical Word Branded
23/07/2012, By Hasan Fadlallah
For those of you out there who think brand and fashion have broken up and don't even go to the same parties anymore, think again. Brand cont...
Strategic Brand Insights about Digital Platforms
18/01/2012, By Hasan Fadlallah
It seems not a day passes without some news somewhere about the world of digital, especially when it comes to brands. The news report usual...
Digital What?
08/12/2011, By Hasan Fadlallah
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25/10/2011, By Hasan Fadlallah
BrandLounge, the MENA region’s leading brand and marketing strategy firm, has just wrapped its branding assignment for Bahrain 11, the fir...
Top-100 Loyalty Leaders for 2011
14/09/2011, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Predicting by the Numbers
16/06/2011, By Hasan Fadlallah
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11 Branding and Marketing Trends for 2011
12/01/2011, By Hasan Fadlallah
The recent partnership between BrandLounge and Brand Keys, Inc., confirms the need for accurate predictive brand loyalty, equity, and engage...
Which Brands Have the Most Loyal Customers?
29/09/2010, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Brand is Grand
03/02/2010, By Hasan Fadlallah
The "Decade of the Brand" opens with 2010 as consumers continue to search for meaningful value-and use brands as a critical variable in the ...
Listening to a Billion Consumers
24/10/2009, By Hasan Fadlallah
Windows 7, the latest version of Microsoft Windows, a series of operating systems for use on personal computers, was released today less tha...
iPhones, Grey Goose, Wal-Mart, and Mary Kay!
21/10/2009, By Hasan Fadlallah
Each was one of the top-10 brands in this year's Brand Keys Loyalty Leaders List. This year we rated 63 categories and 440 brands, so who el...
10 Branding Trends for 2010
08/10/2009, By Hasan Fadlallah
Niels Bohr once noted that “prediction is very difficult, especially about the future,” but then he didn’t have access to predictive l...
Getting it Right in Retail
16/09/2009, By Hasan Fadlallah
Has the story you tell your customers become more important than the product? Richard Lewis, Friday September 04 2009. At a time when consu...
A Shock to the System
20/08/2009, By Hasan Fadlallah
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School Shoppers Looking Closely at Retail Value
16/08/2009, By Hasan Fadlallah
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Espresso Yourself!
16/07/2009, By Hasan Fadlallah
Tim Hortons Inc., the company founded in 1964 by NHL hall-of-famer Tim Horton, former hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs, the New Yor...
Differentiate or Die
02/07/2009, By Hasan Fadlallah
What has changed in business over recent decades is the amazing proliferation of product choices in just about every category. Its been esti...
Tales from the Marketing Wars (3)
03/06/2009, By Hasan Fadlallah
Toyota is about to pass General Motors' seven-decade reign as the world's largest car producer by volume. That’s right 70 years of leaders...
Tales from the Marketing Wars (1)
26/05/2009, By Hasan Fadlallah
The press is abuzz with stories about big companies moving dollars out of traditional advertising media and into product placements and othe...