http://www.bondgrp.com Creating opportunities, building brands. Tue, 22 May 2012 15:10:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/tornato-protesters-in-need-of-a-brandstorm/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/tornato-protesters-in-need-of-a-brandstorm/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 14:37:13 +0000 Natalie Mueller http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1814 The streets are alive with the sound of NATO. Or, rather, the streets are alive with the sound of NATO protesters. NATO representatives themselves sit quietly around a table while their presence in Chicago and very existence as an organization …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/tornato-protesters-in-need-of-a-brandstorm/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/pray-for-apple/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/pray-for-apple/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:02:02 +0000 Joe Bond http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1728 Amazing. In 1997 Apple stock closed at a low of $3.56. The company had many issues with their product line, the OS was in machines sold by other brands, they tried to make digital cameras, scanners, whatever… and the CEO …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/pray-for-apple/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/bourbon-must-travel/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/bourbon-must-travel/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:39:41 +0000 Joe Bond http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1697 I had no idea, how important it was to have your bourbon with you, in your luggage, packed as flat as your shirts. No round bottle here! We’re packing FLAT, so we can mix a drink anytime we want, and …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/bourbon-must-travel/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/the-intrest-in-pintrest/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/the-intrest-in-pintrest/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:53:01 +0000 Bond Group http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1674 You know a trend has more than caught on when your ten year old daughter says… “I want a new hairstyle, let’s look on Pinterest.” Pinterest is so simple that it’s hard to believe this idea wasn’t hatched years ago. …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/the-intrest-in-pintrest/feed/ 1 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/keith-richards-start-me-up/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/keith-richards-start-me-up/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:00:32 +0000 Bond Group http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1649 Creativity has a way of creating unexpected results. You can create what you set out to do, and you achieve the results you want. You can create what you set out to do, and don’t achieve the results you want. …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/keith-richards-start-me-up/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/the-rov-of-steve-jobs/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/the-rov-of-steve-jobs/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:44:24 +0000 Joe Bond http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1628 Risk, Originality and Virtuosity. I can’t think of three better words to describe Steve Jobs. Gymnasts learn the acronym early when they start to understand the underlying criteria that determines their score. Steve Jobs flipped entire industries upside-down by taking …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/the-rov-of-steve-jobs/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/watching-a-bookstore-die/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/watching-a-bookstore-die/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:18:27 +0000 Joe Bond http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1547 On the day my Kindle arrived, I purchased some books from a “Going out of Business” Borders store. The dichotomy was not lost on me as I walked around the empty displays. I really knew that store. It was always …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/watching-a-bookstore-die/feed/ 1 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/mobile-phones-amazing-growth/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/mobile-phones-amazing-growth/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:43:38 +0000 Joe Bond http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1516 While doing some research on mobiles recently, we came across some stats that caught our attention… Sources: Global Mobile Statistics 2011 http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats Google Mobile Ads http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleMobileAds#p/c/F00C4B5531E19CD6/0/CjUcq_E4I-s Sybase: http://www.sybase.com/resources/blogs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUQLIPdtg8]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/mobile-phones-amazing-growth/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/why-cant-design-be-beautiful/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/why-cant-design-be-beautiful/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 17:05:33 +0000 Topher McCulloch http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1465 Before Steve Jobs was a glint in his father’s eye, Olivetti was elevating the design aesthetics of the business machine world through product design and advertising rooted in the Bauhaus and vetted in Italy. Olivetti placed great importance on its …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/why-cant-design-be-beautiful/feed/ 0 http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/5-things-robert-plant-can-teach-a-brand/ http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/5-things-robert-plant-can-teach-a-brand/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:24:23 +0000 Joe Bond http://www.bondgrp.com/?p=1440 I just saw Robert Plant and Band of Joy in Chicago, and it’s amazing how he re-invents himself year after year. Each direction he takes, tends to reveal a little bit more depth and a little bit more character, and …]]> http://www.bondgrp.com/blog/5-things-robert-plant-can-teach-a-brand/feed/ 0