Corporate Branding
When Less is More –
Brand Identity and Marketing Work Best When They Are Visual And Simple. What do you remember? It’s always those brand identities connected with a highly visual campaign that conveys a simple, emotional, and evocative connection. Whether B2C or B2B customers. The visual image associated with the brand creates a powerful connection. It’s how humans work.…
Read MoreBuilding Traction
The value of engagement is in staying connected. No, traction is not the treads on your tires or the treads on the bottom of your hiking boots. Although it is about building a strong connection with your customers through your brand. In the start-up, world traction means the success you’ve seen so far or the proof you…
Read MoreEndless Possibilities…
In Today’s World, Marketing isn’t About Doing Everything. Marketers continue to be hyper-focused on customer-centric marketing but it must be done in a more nuanced, tactical fashion that reflects lifestyle-focused behaviors and networks in this new world. The pandemic threw the previously predictable ways of doing things into new modes of acting and thinking. This…
Read MoreTalking to People
Why Human-Centered Marketing and Branding Connects.There’s a new way to view marketing and branding. It’s not just about products and cool tech solutions but communicating and connecting with individuals…
Read MoreDon’t Monkey Around with Brand Perceptions
Walmart Pulls Coconut Milk Amid Monkey Labor Allegations. Chained monkeys were trained to quickly climb palms and pick the coconuts for Thai coconut milk brands. Although they were rewarded with food for their labor, animal rights organizations got involved and have been calling this “monkey slave labor”. In 2019, PETA investigators in Asia surfaced several…
Read MoreMore than Digital: Connecting with People
It’s Time to Transform Marketing into People Connecting. How and when you connect with existing and potential customers is not about just sending constant emails out. Why inundate people with your content? It’s common for brands, as it is for people, to want to talk about themselves. We’ve all had interesting and fascinating people in…
Read MoreOne Brand, One Experience
The 7 essentials of shaping a brand across all the customer touchpoints. How do you shape a campaign and really focus on the right audience for your brand? In developing a brand strategy and building this into real things that customers and partners see, it’s essential to unify what your brand says and looks likes,…
Read MoreStrategic Ambiguity
Sometimes An Intentional Lack of Clarity Is Exactly What a Brand Needs. From Coca-Cola to Dunkin Donuts to the global consulting firm Prophet, many companies from consumer-level to B2B are becoming, well, less specific about what they actually sell or do. Coca-Cola Company has far more of its sales in the myriad of beverage brands…
Read MoreMcDonald’s Wants to Know You, The importance of Customer Engagement, and Netflix Falls Off a Cliff
Fries, a Shake, and a Big Mac. You may think when you order at a McDonald’s they know all about you. Not really, but boy, do they care. With the challenges of the pandemic, supply chain shortages and price increases, keeping customers engaged and coming back became a challenge. Many retailers, and now McDonald’s, have…
Read MoreFinding the Perfect One
You offer great value, but how do you find that perfect customer? It often seems that the perfect client, the perfect person is elusive, and not easy to find. Yet you know that what you do—how you are, how you deliver on your promises—will be exactly what that one potential customer, that one person also…
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