Let’s face it, marketing can be hard! In each marketing blog post, we hope you’ll find the information you need for your business marketing success.
How do I build brand awareness?
You might be offering the best service or product available under the sun. But unless your customers are aware of this, you might not make even a single sale. This drives home the need to build brand awareness. Creating brand awareness for your company or products will give it the visibility it needs to meet…
Strategies for Handling Bad Press
Despite your best efforts, your brand will occasionally be maligned by well-intentioned (or otherwise) individuals and brands. Sometimes it will occur because you failed to execute something as well as you could, sometimes it will be because you’re the brand with the most top-of-mind awareness in your marketplace. Sometimes, it’s because the other brand is…
Your Brand as Art
A few months ago, Simon Mainwaring made a post titled, Social media explained by a 9-year-old in one sentence. In it he shares a quote that he saw at the Portland Children’s Museum by a 9-year-old Elyssa which said, “When I make my art about a flower it is not showing you who the flower is,…
Branding With Actions – Not Words
I’m pleased to be the guest blogger this week over on the Marketing by Deepak blog. Click on over here to learn about why Branding With Actions – Not Words is critical to your business success. Too often, when we consider branding, we focus entirely on the name of the business, the smartness of the tag line,…
Consistent Branding at Different Locations
If you’ve got more than one location, it just got at least three times as hard to keep your brand consistent. “If I have two locations, shouldn’t it just be two-times as hard?” you ask. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work out that way. Having more than one location usually, means that you have to split your time…
Brand Development Doesn’t Have to be Expensive
I’m continually amazed at how often we in the marketing profession, and those in business, assume that brand development has to be expensive! This misnomer is honestly come by, though, because in good times, it’s easy to spend a lot of money on updating your brand image. But having cash ready to spend isn’t a prerequisite to…
Lessons in Brand Authenticity
I stumbled across a question posed on LinkedIn this morning that got me thinking. The question was: How do you see social platforms evolving in the future? And while I answered it from a personal standpoint, I neglected the answer from a brand authenticity perspective – an oversight I aim to correct here. Social Media…
Brand Evolution
You’ve got your tagline; you know what your brand position stands for, and you’ve looked hard at your business to see what fits and doesn’t. (If you haven’t, it’s OK, you can catch up here.) So now comes the BIG QUESTION: Do you update/change your logo and business name or work with what you’ve got?…
Your Brand Manifesto: Your Secret Sauce
OK, so you’ve found your new brand position and tagline. You’ve taken the time to discuss it with your key stakeholders and get their buy-in. Now what? Well, my friends, now comes the FUN part! The first thing you’re going to need to write is your brand manifesto. In a short paragraph, what does your company…
How to Create a Brand
We feel the rightness of creating a brand in our bones. Marketing and advertising agencies tell us that we’re supposed “create a brand” and we believe them. After all, who wouldn’t want a name like Nike, Kleenex, or Starbucks to call their own? But folks in business just beginning branding often find that it is expensive…