Create a brand to build your marketing results
A brand takes time to build. And it will transform your marketing results. When you’re planning a marketing program, no matter who your target audience is or what you’re offering, a brand will build marketing results. An integrated brand build marketing strategy requires focus, deep thinking and attention on... read more
Business names … keep the old or create newly?
What’s in a business name? Plenty! As a company grows and evolves, business conditions change and target markets shift, new business names may be considered. It might be time to refocus, to abandon out-of-date language, or to simplify and streamline. You’ve probably noticed changes in business names … whether... read more
Positioning strategy guides brand design and message
Positioning strategy narrows the focus Positioning strategy defines where your company or products fit in category. As a marketer, you know you can’t be all things to all people. With positioning strategy as a foundation, your brand identity design, marketing message and chosen communication tools will connect with your... read more
Local branding done right
Dutch Bros. Coffee does local branding brilliantly. I’m a fan! They’ve built their brand where it counts. Visibility from the road, fast drive-through with energetic and happy service, and the familiar–and recognizable blue lid. Not just a lid though, a lid with a message. Although I confess I don’t... read more
Keep the power of print in your marketing
Print is not dead, it’s alive and well. Joe Pulizzi, founder at Content Marketing Institute, offered his opinion in a LinkedIn post: “While I would not want to be in the broad-based, horizontal print game (ala USA Today), highly niche, highly targeted publications are flourishing as a marketing tool.” Here’s... read more
Is your brand mobile-friendly? 14
Brand Responsibly Manifesto: 14 Mobile is where we’re growing. There’s no doubt mobile technology has accelerated. More versions of smartphones are being introduced constantly and tablets are proliferating. It’s hard to go a day without seeing or hearing what the next great device is and what it can do.... read more
Today success starts with your online brand
The web is now the center of your marketing and your online brand When I started in the marketing and design business more than 30 years ago, we worked with typewriters, drawing boards, rubber cement, X-acto knives and rapidograph pens. Our long and complicated process involved sending out for... read more
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