Articulate the Brand Personality for the Brand Book
Now that we've created our list of keywords and established the relationship between them, it's time for our next step in how to make a Brand Book and create our brand personality. Articulating your Brand Personality is an integral component...
Identify Your Brand Essence
Once you've identified your keywords for your brand and brand book, it's important to both test them, and to demonstrate their relationship with regard to your brand position to create your brand essence. You'll recall from our last post that...
Identify Your Brand Position by Using Brand Keywords
With your Brand's history complete with the brand book, it's time to start distilling the keywords for your brand. If you haven't done this exercise yet, a Word Cloud is an excellent way to tease them out. Identify Brand Keywords...
Brand History: Start at the Beginning of the Brand Book
As I mentioned in the last post, we're going to be building our sample Brand Book on the Rubber Duckie Brand. The reasons for choosing this brand over any other are varied but include being a "duck," not having vigilant...
The Heavens Parted and Delivered the Brand Book
In December, I wrote a quick blog post called "Does Your Brand have a Brand Book?" in response to The Santa Brand Book from Quietroom. Since then, that post has been the most frequently visited post on the Finding Brand Blog,...
Does Your Brand Have a Brand Book?
I'm not quite sure how I came across this hilarious post today from The Quietroom about their Santa brand book, but I'm glad I did -- for several reasons. First (and most obviously) it's hilarious! Having written some of these brand...
Selling Your Brand Internally
One of the most important places to spend time and energy “selling” your brand is internally. There is no audience that is more important to have completely understand and believe your brand position. The reason should be obvious, of your...
What’s Your Brand Story?
From start to finish, a well-executed brand is really just about telling a good story. Well-written stories are fairly predictable in their format, they have a beginning, middle, and end. The pieces of the story that are being told are consistent...
Unexpected Branding Opportunities
In any business, there are the expected branding opportunities, television commercials, radio, signs in the store, and even employee shirts. But some unexpected branding opportunities give you a chance to make your brand stand out. The first thing to consider is...
Fun Marketing Campaigns Can Make Your Brand Memorable
What's your claim to fame? How is your brand memorable in your community? Are you the go-to business for sponsoring non-profits either monetarily or with volunteers? Do you have a big annual blow-out sale? Do you get wacky at Halloween...
Brand Identity Design – Creating Good Corporate Identity
The next step on the Finding Brand journey is to begin looking at and updating your corporate identity (ID). (Don't miss out, you can catch up here.) Corporate ID is your letterhead, fax covers, business cards, PowerPoint Templates, envelopes, and...
What does your brand position say?
Let's start with the basics, what is a brand position? Your brand is the space your business occupies in the business world. It can be friendly, open, full of hope and aspiration. It can also be sloppy, uncoordinated, and unimpressive...
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