Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 04, 2024

Clueless and even more clueless!!

Oh, for the days when the only thing that got branded was cattle.

You didn’t give yourself a chance with the tea, Tiffany. You quit too soon.

Hang on a second, Tiff.

The reason why “Tiff as Nails” failed was because “R.A.” Bernice shut you down.

As I recalled business was BOOMING before that.

I also remember the crowd turned on Bern when she did that.

Well, now that GruppenFurhrer Bernice is no longer an “R.A,” maybe it’s time to reconsider starting “Tiff as Nails” up again.

Just make sure the proper permits are obtained FIRST.

And the appropriate taxes are paid……, ;-)

Excuse me – Bets thinks it was all ‘too hard’ on HER?? Has still still failed to realise just how her self-absorbed behaviour affects others? Oh wait, I just answered my own question.

Lol reminds me of myself. Currently in the middle of making a local cooking channel

Does that include rebranding generic brands? :D

Are we now rewriting history? Tiff As Nails was a success but Bernice shut it down. T’s Teas was also a decent idea!

And Bets n’ Gun was too hard on Bets? I think it was too hard on everyone else.

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If they think all their past “brands” were losers.. how can they think becoming “Branders” is a winning idea??

As business majors, they ought to realize that the first order of business is market research to identify a desirable product or service that can be provided within legal and societal constraints. Only then is a catchy name needed as a marketing tool. Then come such matters as obtaining permits, means of production, operating personnel, venue, and-or materials. Most of all, what is needed is planning — which is much more than a simple idea, concept or name.

At least Tiffany has stopped talking about retail therapy…

Boring—all week long.

Ah here we are. They’re talking of starting a business together.

It is good that both Bets and Tiffany have a good friend to talk with now.

Tiffany still needs to commit entirely to her studies by (unfortunately) relying on her father though. She is failing and being overworked by handling that and her waitress job at the same time.

Tiff as Nails was a a success but it lacked proper licensing. Tiff’s Table for Two had bad customer service and probably a non-viable business plan but it was a good idea. Also it, like Tiff’s Storage should have been housed inside a private residence. It needed to be in some place zoned commercial. And T’s Teas seemed like a sell-out. She just needed to set up a regular supply and outlet (like a farmer’s market). As for Table for Two, renting the Fuse after hours for that special party seems like a solution. In short Tiff has not had a string of failures, just poorly planning. As for Bets, I never saw her tired from streaming, only Gunther. She needs better reporte with Gunny, timing and expecting to more solo work. These two don’t need to rebrand themselves, just pull their heads out of their fundament.

“Tiff as Nails” was working but school regulations killed it.

Bets has the start of an idea – but we need to hear more how that might be implemented.

Sounds legally risky.

If you’re thinking in that direction, forgive me for being rude, but guys like butts. It worked for me.

Potential branding customer: ‘Wow we didn’t know we needed this until now..’

How about “Guns ‘n’ Bets”?? Worked for that rock group!

Be careful of how many irons you have in the fire.

They both just admitted that they’ve been failures at branding themselves. So how can they possibly start a business doing that for others?

Actually, business wise I think they will be a great team! :-))

Brandy, your a fine girl

Why don’t they rebrand Luann? She could use the help.

Promoting start-up businesses. Tiffany, then could go back to acting and Bets could return to the internet.

It seems like there should be some kind of law against branding people.

Um, no Bets; Bets-N-Guns was great for you. It was hard on Gunther. Pulling back was hard on you. This was only a few months ago. You’d think you’d have a better memory of this.

I’m currently working on some brands myself. I ain’t gonna tell you what they are because I don’t want anyone stealing my ideas.

Well, there’s a brand-new idea…not.

South Park did an episode like that

Tiff, honey, Tiff as Nails was a huge success, you just got shut down because you can’t run an illegal business out of your dorm room. It still has a lot of potential

Bets-N-Gun only became hard on Bets when her followers started questioning the faithfulness of their relationship. It wasn’t hard on her until she couldn’t control the narrative anymore, and she still doesn’t acknowledge that it was hard on Gunther from the start.

Brander, you’re a fine girl!

(Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) – Looking Glass)

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If you want to brand yourselves, start a small fire, get a long handle, form a capital “H” using iron, put that inside an iron O, attach it to the handle and stick it in the fire until it’s red hot, then apply it to your skin with the “H” at an angle of about 45 degrees from horizontal.

Two more days left of this arc, just two more

Git our yer branding irons!

Greg and Karen seem to be on vacation a lot recently (yawn)

As the owner of a marketing consultancy, that’s pretty much what I actually do!

Bets, you start the fire, Tiff, you get the branding irons

Leave the strip for a weekend with a boyfriend or some guy who got lucky. Return refreshed and smiling.

Is she gonna work at a ranch?

Where’s Chuck Connors? (obscure?)

Need a brand? Call Nxivm.

That’s brandiful!

I like the light Bets has in her eyes thinking about working together with Tiffany. Looks like she just had a great idea and can’t wait to tell her. If it’s a bad idea, Tiffany will tell her right away. If it’s good, she will be thrilled. Tiffany had many ideas, it’s sad that she see all of them like duds. “Table for two” gave her a good grade and the Tea was a success. I hope that Bets’ idea is successful and can continues for a long time.

Actually, that’s not a bad idea. There are consultants that make big money doing precisely that.

It’s a challenge creating a brand/

When there isn’t a trace of demand /

For whatever you’re selling./

You can’t seem “compelling”/

When you’re feckless, frustrated, and bland.

The hustle is strong with these two.

Don’t remember the first, Tiff’s Storage ran in to zoning and insurance issues, Table for Two, she kept trying to force her vision on the customer’s, T’s Teas, were actually Dez’s teas, and, Tiff tried to make them ou to be something they weren’t SO the problem wasn’t that the ideas were duds, it was the execution of the ideas. Maybe teaming with Betts on this “Branding the Unbranded” will work out better. They both have ideas, but Betts is (at least somewhat) in the execution of of them.

Branding the brandless is called “advertising” and it is, indeed, a lucrative field.

" ♫ What do you do when you’re branded, Will you fight for your name? ♫"

Better to be the brander…. than the cow.

“Branding” originally referred to the identifying mark farmers burn onto their cattle with a hot branding iron. This comic has been using the word “brand” so much lately that it has lost the modern meaning and as far as I’m concerned Tiffany and Bets are talking about burning their initials onto people. Good luck with that.

Strangely I think I like where this is going.

News Flash – This kind of business already exists.

What? No, that’s just silly!!!!

Yawn this arc is the worst.

I think they’re stumbling across the brand manager idea from that South Park episode

Bets idea might be a winner since as branding the unbranded would relieve them of having to stick it through, a quality they lack.

Go onto MyFans and start Brand X.

Ditto. I’m trying to brand myself as a retired US expat that escaped to The Cayman Islands.

I rebranded myself 11 1/2 years ago: RETIRED!

Well, at least they’re finally acknowledging that Tiffany’s ideas have been failures. It’s certainly better than the previous policy of introducing them and then forgetting about them while hoping the readers all forget too.

I know this is a comic, but none of this is branding. A brand is what you want people to remember. It’s what people say about you when you aren’t in the room. It’s a promise. So a brand could be things like ”quality”, “price”, “innovation”, “availability”, etc.

this is getting meta

How about doing it the old fashioned way, with a branding iron.

And when they’re done they can start rebranding the ones who are already tired of their brand.

I don’t like being branded when the brand is in the wrong hands.

The inmates got the keys to the loony bin and they’re not giving them up.

Why don’t they start a business called Image Makers and get rid of the branding dialogue? It’s not a very attractive word and it doesn’t really describe what they would be doing. No established business is going to let these two little girls give them any advice or change their label, so all of their clients would probably be college students. Kind of like that movie when the guy paid the popular girl to date him and she fixed his hair and clothes.

Brand them mavericks.

So a White girl is going to brand a black girl?… NAACP might not like that!

They’re going to think up names for people who are too dull to t hink up names for themselves.

No Count Olaf for two days.

Maybe he and Ann Eiffel eloped

They are going to need a meta-brand.

Boring

A political consultancy: “Let’s Go Brandin’.”

In other words, they start a PR firm.

A brand that is no brand is a “Maverick”.

Can we move on from this re branding and branding.

Those who can’t do, teach

I imagine that’s how these so-called “influencers” get started. They don’t want to actually get a job. Then they realize how hard they have to work at that.

Gosh, kids, can you just be human beings and not brands?

Ugh! More brand-e-whine.

Bets said “Hard on” X-D

If it goes well that can hire Luann as a brand-aid

“Branded”,marked as the one who ran,what can you do when you’re “Branded”,and you know you’re a…woman…?

Tiff as Nails can still work. The whole point of her getting a business degree was so she could set up her own sports spa. She can still go for a cosmetology degree, and even work part-time in salons for experience.

Yes! Tiff and her friend rebrand themselves as Influencers!

Well, it’s an idea.

I think reading that shorted out a brain cell or ten.

Maybe THIS gambit has potential!!!!!