In the early stages of a business, it’s easy to believe marketing strategy is something you can put off — that marketing is icing on the cake once you’ve built…
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As you might be aware, our firm’s mantra and guiding philosophy is “Live Your Brand.” That statement derives from the idea that awesome brands — the ones that people fall…
A recent engagement points up an important lesson for the brand builder: slow and steady wins the race. Fennell Purifoy Architects is a highly accoladed, decades-old boutique architectural firm headquartered…
I recently came across content marketer Grace MacDonald’s blog outlining the steps for effectively using LinkedIn and its paid tools to market webinars and found it really helpful. https://business.linkedin.com/en-uk/marketing-solutions/blog/posts/B2B-Marketing/2019/My-four-step-plan-for-promoting-webinars-on-LinkedIn MacDonald…
Consumers crave content, and with Americans spending more time on the internet than ever before, that remains true. But, consumers aren’t just willing to engage in simply any content. They…
A powerful and competitive brand is not something you solely advertise or design. It’s everything you are and do. This means that “branding” is leadership, not marketing. Consider this: if…
So often people think “branding” means creating a name, logo or tagline. All the outside stuff. A few recognize that great brands actually start inside. Starbucks revolutionized coffee in the…
Strange as it may sound, branding is vastly more important in the nonprofit sector than in the for-profit world. How can this be — isn’t the for-profit world where cutthroat…
A global pandemic hits, forcing the economy into a deep recession. Time to increase your marketing budget. What, am I crazy? Isn’t a recessionary period time to slash your expenses,…
Neuroscience shows that our brains encode emotions more strongly and durably than any other information. We forget facts and figures. We lose historical dates and misremember chronologies. Algebraic formulas and…
What business are you in? Accounting, technology, insurance, banking, real estate, healthcare, consulting? I encourage you to get out of it. Today. Don’t change jobs. Don’t sell your business. Just…
We often think of brands as the emotional connection between customers and the products or companies those brands represent. Certainly brands elicit emotions. They spur affinity, love, revulsion, contentment. One…
The year 2016 is here and with it all the excitement of turning a new page on the calendar. What page might the brand leader turn? I’m not thinking about…
All I really need to know about branding I learned in a cup of coffee. In the beginning, coffee arrived on our shores in unwieldy, roughly marked burlap sacks stacked…
Every time I visit the wine country of California I am awestruck by so many things. The miles and miles of vineyards undulating over the Sonoma and Napa valleys. The…