Expressing Your Brand in 60 Seconds or Less!

While some enjoy the hunt for new connections others would rather spend an afternoon with a dentist drill than introduce themselves to someone new. Whatever camp you reside in, the #1 most effective way to get the word out about your business is networking. It's inexpensive, and when executed correctly, your best means of advertising your brand.

The Name Game: Part 1

This is part 1 of a three part series that deals with corporate naming. Part 1 deals with whether to conduct naming as an organic initiative or to outsource naming to a third party service provider.

The Style Guide

The style guide makes it possible that your brand is speaking with one voice even if three different departments located in three different locations are presenting your brand to your customers. In case there is one day a question which cannot be answered by the style guide,

E-mail Sabotage: Killing the Brand Softly

Everything you do affects your brand image as seen through the eyes of your customers. Think about that the next time you delete an e-mail without reading it or fail to respond to an e-mail in a timely manner.

Make A Name For Yourself, Or Someone Else Will

If you can’t concisely and immediately articulate who you are and what you’re all about, one of two things will happen...

Brand Development, You Should Improve Your Branding

Brands are an extremely vital element in your product and corporate value proposition. With communications so pervasive today, corporate branding and product branding are becoming fused as one.

An Inconvenient Truth — A Failure to Persuade

What does all this have to do with branding to steal market share? Just everything. Most brands market and advertise to their own current customers and ignore the precepts of those “from the other camp.” At times, it is even more of a waste of funds in that brands talk only to themselves and not even their own customers

Creating a Strong Nonprofit Brand

As your nonprofit grows, developing a consistent message and brand that is easily accessible by your staff is essential. Discover the solution to creating a strong nonprofit brand in 4 simple steps

Dig a Deeper Well - How to Tap the Power of Your Brand Image

Getting the most from your company's brand requires more than knowing what you do. It requires an understanding of who you are.

Small Business Marketing Tip - Brand and Customer Referrals

It's true: Good customers want to help your business succeed. Let's help them out. Lots of people talk about word-of-mouth advertising. Creating successful word-of-mouth is much more art than science. Think of it as having your customers and employees carrying a Brand Banner for you.

Is Small Business Branding More Important Than A Personal Touch For A Sole Proprietor?

A brand is quite important to a big corporation. It's not as important to a sole proprietor. Think about that when creating an image for your business.

Hip-Hop's Influence on Brands

Music has always been the heartbeat of society. Its influence is both broad and longstanding. No other genre has had an influence on brands like hip-hop music. Within the past decade, hip-hop has morphed into a global moving force. Read how the $4 billion-a-year industry influences everything from fashion and the media to cola and hamburgers.

Small Business Marketing Solution - Create Your Own Story

As a small business marketer you need emotional ore--raw material from your customers that you can try and build on to create a stronger bond with them. You are trying to create a sticky position in their minds. The master jeweler needs the stones and the gold before he crafts that dazzling wedding ring. The same is true for the master marketer; you need to gain at least some hint of how your customers feel about your small business. And the best way to extract that info is to ask them.