Tisha Oehmen is a professional brand strategist and a leader in the branding field. She has been named a member of the Global Guru’s Top 30 Brand Gurus. She is also the co-founder of Oregon-based Paradux Media Group and the best-selling author of the book, Finding Brand: The Brand Book Tutorial.
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Branding Can Be Easy
We often get caught up in the complexities of branding—ensuring every message is carefully crafted, guarding our brand's image, and trying to control every detail of how we present ourselves to the world. In those moments of intense focus and...
Navigating Social Media Nightmares
Social media nightmares are the most significant concern I hear when I talk with businesses about using social media to grow their message is the "what if..." What if someone uses my social media account to address a concern they...
Your Brand is Your Story: Building a Narrative That Connects
An easy way to think of your brand is to understand that it is the story of your business. Your brand is more than just a logo, color scheme, or tagline—it's about the history of your business, the challenges you...
Branding Foundations
Every brand needs to be built on a solid foundation. While the materials the blocks are made of change from company to company, their purpose, form, and necessity do not vary. The first foundational block of your brand is your vision for your...
Does Your Brand Inspire Passion?
We're here in the middle of football season, and we can observe the fans of a favorite team every week. It doesn't matter which team takes the field; you can count on one thing - thousands of people will wait,...
Your Brand Online
Some time ago, those of us in the business world began hearing that we needed to create a website for our business to build our brand online. Frankly, this confounded several business owners. They asked, "Why would I need a...
Your Customers Should be Able to Count on You
I recently found a great little store that provides excellent, thorough, and knowledgeable customer service. I was so excited about the service I received from this store that I told a friend about it. I even offered to go with...
10 Ways to Build Your Brand
We've talked much lately about that inevitable Marketing Plan that will be "due" soon. Here's a quick recap of ways to build your brand as you dream of what you'll accomplish next year. Know What it Stands For. Before you...
Examining Your Marketing Environment
As you begin to put together your new strategic marketing plan, you should take into account the internal and external factors in your marketing environment that will be affecting you in the upcoming year. In my previous post, How Effective...
Following Through: How to Keep Your Marketing Plan Alive and Achieve Success
For the last several posts, I've been expanding on each of the questions I posed in my original post, "How Effective is Your Marketing Plan?" Today, let's dive deeper into the crucial question of execution: Did you follow through on...
Choosing Products for Your Target Audience
Not every product you carry will suit your target audience, so discussing how and why a particular product will fill a need is important. It’s incumbent upon you to figure out how your product will fill a void in their...
You Need a Target Audience
A few days ago, I asked you, "How Effective is Your Marketing Plan?" The first question on the Effectiveness Quiz was: Did your plan clearly articulate your target audience, including demographic information?(The correct answer would be something on the order...
How Effective is Your Marketing Plan?
It's officially fall, so many marketers are in the middle of another year of planning. Unless, of course, you're ahead of the game - in which case, congratulations!!! But since that's probably not the case, as you begin to work...
Branding a Local vs National Company
I had the opportunity the other day to chat with a friend who is a national brand marketer. During our conversation, I was struck (again) by the sameness and, simultaneously, the differentness of branding a national vs. local brand. At...
Selling Your Brand Internally
One of the most important places to spend time and energy "selling” your brand is internally. No audience is more important to have completely understand and believe your brand position. The reason should be apparent: if your staff doesn't believe...
What’s Your Brand Story?
From start to finish, a well-executed brand is just about telling a good story. Well-written stories are pretty predictable in their format; they have a beginning, middle, and end. The pieces of the story that are being told are consistent...
Using Product Promotions to Extend Your Brand
Once you've established your brand position and even created a branding commercial or two -- it is inevitable that the next call you receive from your boss (or the CFO) is a plea/mandate to run a promotion to sell your...
Branding Consistently
The hardest part about branding is keeping tight control of your branding consistency—always using the same logo, sticking with your tagline, maintaining your presence in the media, and sticking with your plan. Consistent branding is hard because it's so much...
Branding with Actions – Not Words
Too often, when we consider Branding, we focus entirely on the name of the business, the smartness of the tagline, or the commercials we produce. However, branding should be about creating a consistent customer experience, and the best way to...
Online Advertising in the Age of Adwords
With the advent of our new economy, we're seeing a significant shift from traditional media spending to online advertising. This transformation has been driven by the evolving landscape of how consumers interact with brands and the need for businesses—small businesses—to...
