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.
4 Critical Components to Successful Brand Management
Brand Management can cause all but the most serious marketing professionals to blanch. Mostly because the phrase “Brand Management” sounds like an obscure, highly technical body of knowledge. To make matters worse, the normal online resources for learning about a concept do a poor job explaining what it is. But the reality is that successful…
How to Avoid Being the Next Kmart – A Real Life Marketing Lesson
News recently came out that Kmart isn’t doing so hot right now. However, don’t outsiders always have the best perspective on issues like this, especially when it comes to seeing the true marketing lesson? We don’t have a dog in the fight or any care or reason not to give our unqualified honest opinion about…
SEO: Small Businesses Medford Oregon
Why Local SEO For Medford Oregon Business Owners: So why is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so important to a Medford Oregon business? Well it begins with over 40% of consumers won’t shop at a business or brand if they can’t research you or find your business on-line. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) allows not only…
Marketing the Evolutionaries Way
There’s a new book out by Randy Harrington and Carmen Voilleque called “Evolutionaries: Transformational Leadership: The Missing Link in Your Organizational Chart.” Randy and Carmen are brilliant, inspirational, and most of all, observant. They are consultants by trade, and any organization lucky enough to work with one or both of these individuals is vastly better…
Your Brand is About Emotion
I know I’ve talked about it in the past, but it bears repeating, your brand is entirely about evoking an emotional response…we buy from brands we like. In fact, if your brand invokes anything less than passion, you’re missing the mark and that means you’re missing opportunity. While I work with, and talk about, this…
B2B Branding Implications
Usually, when we talk about branding, we talk about B2C (business-to-consumer) companies and specific products, but we should also speak about B2B branding. If you’ve been following this blog for a long time, we believe all branding can favor every business, whether a product, service, B2C branding, or B2B branding. B2B Branding Makes Sense The…
Paradux Media Group Business Cards
Taking your business to the next level is what Paradux Media Group specializes in doing. And toward the end of this year, we recognized that it was time to take our brand image to the next level as well. After all — every great once in a while, the cobbler’s children do actually get new…
Top 10 Finding Brand Blog Posts in 2011
I always enjoy reading the “top posts” posts on other blogs, so I thought it might be interesting (and timely) to take a quick look at the top 10 most viewed posts on the Finding Brand Blog for 2011. So, without further ado — here they are.
Creating a Brand in a Tough Economic Environment
I don’t have to tell you that the economy in the last few years has been tough for a brand. We’ve all lived through it, and if you’re still in business you’ve figured out how to survive in this economic environment, it was probably a combination of intention, a little luck, and a strong brand position.…
Political Campaign Marketing And Advertising
Political Marketing is not that much different than image marketing, after all once you throw your hat in the ring, and the die has been cast you have essentially become a product. The upcoming year in Medford and Jackson County will have some heated races and won’t be immune to the mudslinging that is taking…
How Bold is Your Business?
Perseverance and forward thinking are often the only thing that will differentiate you from your marketing competition. Occasionally the marketplace presents you with opportunities that you couldn’t pay to have created. The key is, however, that you need to be watching the landscape, you have to be ready to act, and you have to be…
Writing the Brand Manifesto and Brand Tagline for the Brand Book
Now that you’ve had the opportunity spend some time getting acquainted with your Brand for your Brand Book, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and write (or include) your Brand Manifesto and Tagline. (If you’ve been following Finding Brand for awhile now, you might recall me addressing manifestos before in The Secret Sauce.) The…
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 of building a Brand Book. Brand Personality starts to breathe life into the brand, making…
What’s the Difference: Brand Book vs. Brand Guidelines vs. Brand Bible vs. Identity Guidelines
A brand book or brandbook, or brand bible, brand guidelines, or identity guidelines is essential for businesses to maintain a consistent and strong brand identity. Beautiful brand books serve as a comprehensive guide that outlines the brand’s visual and messaging standards, ensuring that all brand elements are used coherently and effectively across various platforms. Creating…
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 we settled on the following keywords: imagination, friend, joy, clean, charity, children, dream, chubby, bathtime, and…
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 for the Brand Book Copy the text you wrote for the brand book on the…
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 brand guardians searching the web for every unauthorized mention, and being both iconic and well-known.…
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, and it’s obvious that there is a significant need for a brand guidelines template. The…
Do You Enjoy Working on Your Website?
Websites. Lately I’ve been talking with lots of business owners about their websites, and the stories out there about them are truly terrifying! I’m astonished! When did it get to commonplace for service providers to hold their clients’ hostage to their services? To ignore, to intimidate, and to charge an arm and three legs for…
Finding Brand on Paradux Media Group!
It may look a little different than it usually does, but I promise, it’s the same Finding Brand you’ve grown accustomed to. We decided that it was time to consolidate websites and to bring our blogs “in house.” The factors that went into this decision included: maintenance on three sites (Paradux Media Group, Beyond the…