Brand Strategy

Optimizing Your Brand Strategy for Competitive Edge

July 25, 2024May 21, 2024

A well-defined and effectively executed brand strategy is more than just a marketing necessity—it’s a pivotal component of a company’s overall success. A brand strategy is a plan for developing a successful brand to achieve specific goals. It involves brand positioning, audience understanding, messaging, visual identity, and performance measurement. By refining and honing your brand strategy, you can not only differentiate your business from competitors but also create a strong …

Mastering Brand Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for 2023

August 6, 2024September 22, 2023

Welcome to 2023, a pivotal moment that stands as a testament to the ever-evolving landscape of brand strategy. As we find ourselves in this transformative era, businesses are grappling with a multitude of challenges and opportunities that come with the digital age, globalization, and a consumer market that’s more fragmented yet interconnected than ever before. In this complex environment, having a comprehensive, well-thought-out and effective brand strategy, isn’t just a …

What They Don’t Tell You About Building Your Own Brand

September 24, 2024November 24, 2020

Building a Brand can be very discouraging to others and many can hold off years until wanting to start up their own Business or Services and chase what they’re passionate about. There are pros with having your own Brand and can be Cons, but whether you’re just starting up a Brand or have already established one for yourself, here are some things that You should know that people don’t talk …

How To Create Social Change As A Brand

February 13, 2024November 22, 2020

As Millennials and Gen Z come up in the world and begin to take charge, we also carry with us socially conscious values to make the world a more empathetic place. We are slowly injecting it into everything we do, from creating comprehensive inclusivity for the LGBTQ+ community to spreading awareness and protesting civil rights atrocities. So it follows that more brands are tuning in to this increasingly candid world. …

What You Should Know Before Starting Your Own Brand

May 13, 2024October 30, 2020

When building your own brand, people may make things look easier than what it is if you’re looking at social media and others online businesses, or when you’re seeing others try to get you to join their team to start your own brand or you might have thoughts on what it would be like to start something up yourself. It can be tempting or discouraging and there are definitely pros …

How To Keep Raising Brand Awareness When You Can’t Perform Live

June 15, 2024March 27, 2020

The entire planet is seemingly in quarantine right now. For a performer, this can present many problems. You can’t do any live shows, release parties, or meet and greets. How is your brand supposed to survive the apocalypse? The good news is, there are numerous avenues an artist can take to grow their brand awareness. You can grow and measure brand awareness a number of ways, metrics from ads for …

What To Expect When You’re Marketing

December 21, 2023October 19, 2019

A frequently asked question about digital marketing campaigns is “ What can I expect to get from this?”. After all, it would be nice to know that you’re going to get a return on your investment, wouldn’t it? In a world seemingly obsessed with overnight success stories, unrealistic expectations will kill your campaign (not to mention industry connections) before you have a chance to get your brand off the ground. …

How Branding Can Help You Avoid Being a One Hit Wonder

July 29, 2024June 3, 2019

We all know those bands that create that one great song and then we never hear from them again. All of the success and fame for a quick 15 minutes and the spotlight dims faster than it appeared. These artists are genuinely talented but one thing usually gets in the way and that’s branding. Branding is the key to longevity in the music industry. We’re rounding up some key tips …

The Importance Of Being Branded

December 19, 2023March 11, 2019

Branding is a marketing tactic in which a company creates a symbol, design or name that consumers can easily identify as belonging to a brand. It’s crucial to develop an easily identifiable brand for your company for a number of reasons. Not only does branding make a memorable impression on your audience but it allows them to know what to expect when they come to you. Your audience will help …

How Social Activism Can Impact Your Brand

April 17, 2019September 12, 2018

Back in the day, it was common for businesses to focus on promoting their products by highlighting their characteristics. However, in the modern era of activism, it’s extremely important to pay more attention to the problems faced by communities they serve. This creates a positive image of your brand and gives your target audience a reason to prefer your products and services over those of your competitors. Benefits of Social …

How to Measure the Power of Your Brand Positioning Strategy

August 8, 2024August 15, 2018

Brand positioning is the process of increasing brand awareness. The purpose of formulating this strategy is to position your brand in the minds of your customers and make it stand out from the crowd. While building branding strategies, you should focus on packaging, pricing, and promotion of your products. Your goal should be to create a unique impression in the minds of your customers that can help them remember your brand …

How to Solve the Biggest Problems with Brand Design and Brand Identity

January 30, 2024January 17, 2018

Designing your brand is not an easy task. It is hard enough to create a marketing campaign; working on something as important and permanent as brand design, however, is a completely different ballgame. There are some big problems in the world of brand design today and good brands are suffering because of them. The reason brand design is so hard is that it is art, and you cannot objectively measure …

Strategies to Refresh and Rebrand Your Established Brand Identity

December 23, 2023January 10, 2018

The art of rebranding is certainly one that not every entrepreneur is aware of or knows how to integrate into their business. But that doesn’t mean it cannot be learned. It’s one thing to give up on an already established brand that didn’t really make it into the corporate world, but it’s a whole other world when you rebrand correctly. A good entrepreneur should always evaluate the pros and cons …

5 Way to Make Your Brand Messaging Stand Out From Your Competition

July 17, 2024January 3, 2018

In a crowded marketplace, creating compelling brand messaging can be the difference between failure and success. Here are five things to factor in when planning for your brand. Offering something unique Whether potential customers are shopping in a store, browsing a web portal for goods, or even looking a billboard on the side of the road, it can seem difficult to offer something unique. If it’s a shoe design, you …

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet on Branding Your Side Hustle

November 17, 2023December 13, 2017

Whether you’re a business owner, or just need to make some good money on the side, having a side hustle is certainly the best way to do so. Studies validate that most individuals above the age of 25 have some side hustle set up for them to help them fund their studies or whatever they need the funding for. However, the idea of having a side hustle is a lot …

Signs It’s Time to Give Your Brand a Makeover

December 8, 2023November 15, 2017

There are many reasons why a brand owner would want to give their brand a makeover, but there are also those who simply neglect the clear signs when your brand is calling for a makeover. Neglecting these signs not only makes the brand owner look out of touch, it also means that the brand is going to suffer whether they see the clear picture or not. There’s nothing wrong with …

3 Ways Captivating Visuals Can Peak Consumer Interest

November 17, 2023September 20, 2017

Humans are visual. Sure, we read and we listen, but nothing hits us the way visuals do. In the long term reading and listening to sounds is actually much more powerful than just visuals, but nothing has the power to captivate more powerfully than visuals. If you see a great piece of art it takes a few seconds for your brain to realize how amazing it is. On the other …