Comments on: “Calgary, Heart of the New West” is Our Brand – and It Is Worth Keeping http://telljoe.ca/2009/12/calgary-heart-of-the-new-west-the-re-brand-debate/ Sun, 16 May 2010 05:54:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: joe http://telljoe.ca/2009/12/calgary-heart-of-the-new-west-the-re-brand-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-67 joe Thu, 06 May 2010 00:35:03 +0000 http://telljoe.ca/?p=139#comment-67 Eric, as I mentioned to Harley, this isn't about Calgarians. This is about the tourists who spend $1B a year in our city...the research supports this. Joe Eric, as I mentioned to Harley, this isn’t about Calgarians. This is about the tourists who spend $1B a year in our city…the research supports this.

Joe

]]> By: joe http://telljoe.ca/2009/12/calgary-heart-of-the-new-west-the-re-brand-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-60 joe Sun, 02 May 2010 03:26:25 +0000 http://telljoe.ca/?p=139#comment-60 Harley, My point exactly... The brand is for visitors (who spend $1B), not Calgarians. Harley,
My point exactly… The brand is for visitors (who spend $1B), not Calgarians.

]]> By: eric http://telljoe.ca/2009/12/calgary-heart-of-the-new-west-the-re-brand-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-57 eric Sat, 01 May 2010 15:12:33 +0000 http://telljoe.ca/?p=139#comment-57 i am not a cowboy. i do not ride a horse our drive a over sized pickup truck spilling out fumes into the air and i don't wear a 10 gallon cowboy hat. i am a canadian not a western canadian our a eastern canadian. why should i be stereotyped into some thing that i am not. most calgarians are not from calgary they are from all over canada and the world with different ideas and culture. instead you would rather brand us with the stampede some thing that only happens once a year for only a week. i am not a cowboy. i do not ride a horse our drive a over sized pickup truck spilling out fumes into the air and i don’t wear a 10 gallon cowboy hat. i am a canadian not a western canadian our a eastern canadian. why should i be stereotyped into some thing that i am not. most calgarians are not from calgary they are from all over canada and the world with different ideas and culture. instead you would rather brand us with the stampede some thing that only happens once a year for only a week.

]]> By: Harley http://telljoe.ca/2009/12/calgary-heart-of-the-new-west-the-re-brand-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Harley Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:58:32 +0000 http://telljoe.ca/?p=139#comment-30 The branding of a City is critical to the people getting paid to develop it. Reading the interpretation of Heart of The New West is three paragraphs long. Who drives by the sign coming into our City and contemplates all that? I would suggest the branding comes from what people see first hand when they spend time in our City. These days it is changing quickly, and you only have to drive around town to see it. You can spend all the money you want to call Calgary what ever, that does not change the reality of what our City really shows to visitors. Perhaps we should be polling people on their way out of town at the airport and ask what impressions they are left with? The branding of a City is critical to the people getting paid to develop it. Reading the interpretation of Heart of The New West is three paragraphs long. Who drives by the sign coming into our City and contemplates all that?

I would suggest the branding comes from what people see first hand when they spend time in our City. These days it is changing quickly, and you only have to drive around town to see it. You can spend all the money you want to call Calgary what ever, that does not change the reality of what our City really shows to visitors. Perhaps we should be polling people on their way out of town at the airport and ask what impressions they are left with?

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