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Brand Awareness Through Video
Brand awareness has evolved so much over the last 10 years. Prior to digital marketing, we gained an awareness of popular brands by television ads, radio spots, and even direct mailings. Now, there are a variety of marketing resources readily available, so building video brand awareness has never been easier. Understanding Brand Awareness Building brand…
Branding Your Business in 5 Steps
Are you considering branding your business but concerned it might be challenging or overwhelming? Rest assured, it doesn’t have to be. In fact, you can establish a world-class brand with just five simple steps. Why wait? Start building your brand today. 5 Simple Steps for Branding Your Business 1. Create your branding vision The first…
What is a Brand Narrative?
I often get asked, “What is a Brand Narrative”? And the answer is simply your brand story. It’s both the history of and the future focus for your business. All tied up in one tight strategy. What is a brand narrative doing for my business? Simply put, your brand narrative provides context to your team, continuity…
Effective Branding – Creating Compelling Product Identity
A product does not succeed well without a strong brand. A brand acts like an identity for your product, which customers may find either attractive or ineffective. Making sure you create a brand with a strong potential to become popular is important. But how do you do that? Successful brands start with a story that…
The Power of the Brand Narrative in the Brand Book
A brand narrative has considerable power as a brand-building strategy for aligning stakeholders and creating consistent messaging. In my experience, a good brand narrative is the superior force multiplier – and storytelling branding is profoundly influential. This is because people naturally want to be part of something bigger, they want to matter, and they want…
Why You Need a Brand Narrative
For thousands of years, humans have utilized stories provide context, meaning, and raison d’être in our lives. Our world is constructed of personal, community, institutional, and political narratives. Think for a moment, about the power narrative has played in your life today. Chances are pretty high that upon arriving at work this morning, you met…
Facebook Marketing for Small Businesses: Why You Need to Be There
The other day, I was chatting with someone whose experience with Facebook had been less than stellar. It felt like a meat market or a single scene, so she was understandably mystified about why any business would want to be on Facebook. With that kind of experience, I can see why she was confused. The…
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 face, and the relationships you build with your customers and community. How you tell and…
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 with and advance the storyline. They don’t pursue irrelevant tangents; each paragraph and chapter builds…
Consistent Branding at Different Locations
If you’ve got more than one location, keeping your brand consistent is at least three times as hard. “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 you have to split your time between the…
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? While I answered it from a personal standpoint, I neglected to answer from a brand authenticity perspective—an oversight I aim to correct here. Social Media is evolving every…
Brand Identity Design – Creating Good Corporate Identity
Does your Corporate Identity match your tagline and brand position? If not, it’s time for an update!
Your Brand Manifesto: Your Secret Sauce
Congratulations on Your New Brand Position! OK, so you’ve found your new brand position. You’ve taken the time to discuss it with your key stakeholders and get their buy-in. This foundational step is essential because it defines what your brand stands for and the unique position you occupy in the market. Now what? Well, my…
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 to “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 businesses just beginning branding often find it expensive and…
