Saturday, May 19, 2007

Brand ambition

Kentucky has 'unbridled spirit,' Oregon says, 'We love dreamers.' What captures Wisconsin? Lawmakers want to know.

By STACY FORSTERsforster@journalsentinel.com
Posted: May 10, 2007

Madison - When it comes to marketing Wisconsin, what should the state play up? Its great outdoors? The emerging research economy? Its agricultural and manufacturing history?

Those are questions some state leaders want to begin to answer as a way to move Wisconsin past its current image of the cheesehead, beer and brats state that was home to "Laverne & Shirley" and "That '70s Show." They want to create a state brand to be an umbrella marketing tool for selling opportunities for economic development, tourism, educational and other things that contribute to quality of life in Wisconsin. Read more here.

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