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The most relevant trends about consumers and the “new normal”

The pandemic has changed us as consumers in many ways; socially, hygienically, financially and emotionally. All these changes have to be contemplated by a brand that really wants to accompany its customers in their lives and not just be a provider of products and services. Today brands are humanized and acquire a scale of values […]


Consumers: To the Future & Beyond

At TOTEM Branding we share the top insights. This is the trend guide for the new normal. Result of a work lead by @TOTEM Branding with decision makers around the world to understand where we are and where we are heading in regards to brands and consumers. TOTEM Branding developed a mapping in collaboration with […]


Users & Retail Today

To build the future of retail, you can start by asking new questions: what will tomorrow’s customer demand? What will they want or expect from brands? What will companies be like the day after? How will the way of selling and buying would be transformed? A new age? A new retail? In this new situation, […]


Change the “Anti-Aging” culture

Over 50: the world is losing all its experience. Experience cannot be bought. Are we succeeding in retiring experience? We live in an “anti-aging culture”. This means that we seem to assume that being young is good and being old is bad. We are moving towards a world where experience, instinct and the desire to […]


6 most relevant values that Brands must reflect

At TOTEM Branding we are committed to creating and transforming brands that unite people. Because if we make better brands, we will have a better society. And if we build a better society, we will live in a better world. To live in a better world let’s create better brands. We believe we can continue […]


The New World is shaped by Courage, Creativity & Innovation

“The competitive advantage of a society will come not from how well it teaches multiplication and periodic tables in its schools, but from how well it knows how to stimulate imagination and knowledge.” Albert Einstein. In an ideal world, each person would be able to do what he or she really wanted to do, which […]


Depression, the silent pandemic

“If I help a single person to have hope, I will not have lived in vain.” Martin Luther King. Depression is a silent pandemic. It is a common disease throughout the world, since an estimated 280 million people have depression. This is equivalent to almost six times the entire population of Spain. Depression is different […]


Raising awareness about health & wellbeing

The health of the human being is the health of society and the planet. This week marks World Health Day. Health, physical, mental and emotional, must be a top priority for all of us. Without health there is nothing. So there is no possible justification for not taking care of the health of each person […]


Omnichannel Branding

For brands, building relationships is increasingly important than seeking transactions. And brands that connect positively with customers are consolidating communities of faithful who choose them, defend them and even better, recommend them. Companies with an extremely robust omnichannel customer participation retain on average 89% of their clients, compared to 33% of companies with a weak […]


Creating Totems

The most important thing about TOTEMS are the values shared with stakeholders. They do not have customers or employees, but believers, people who believe in their role in a modern society that goes far beyond the product or service. People believe in TOTEMS because they transcend the merely monetary. They make people’s lives better and […]