In the world of brand marketing, experts are everywhere. Branding agencies build their businesses on their expertise, and create proprietary jargon and brand models to bolster their credibility. But experts are often the exact opposite of what you need when you want to find your authentic brand.
The Diffuse Brand Strategy – What Went Wrong?
This post is one in a series on our biggest brand strategy secret here at Distility: That most bad brands can be traced back to a failure of exploration, a failure of commitment, or both. This diagram sums up the way most brands go wrong, and what it takes to …
The Conformist Brand Strategy
This post is one in a series on our biggest brand strategy secret here at Distility: That most bad brands can be traced back to a failure of exploration, a failure of commitment, or both. This diagram sums up the way most brands go wrong, and what it takes to …
The Authentic Brand Strategy
This post is one in a series on our biggest brand strategy secret here at Distility: That most bad brands can be traced back to a failure of exploration, a failure of commitment, or both. This diagram sums up the way most brands go wrong, and what it takes to …
Distility CEO Axle Davids Wins TBDC Excellence in Innovation Award
The 2010 Awards of Excellence, recognizing outstanding accomplishments in entrepreneurship, were presented last night at the 2nd Annual TBDC Awards Gala.
The Fragmented Brand Strategy
This post is one in a series on our biggest brand strategy secret here at Distility: That most bad brands can be traced back to a failure of exploration, a failure of commitment or both. This diagram sums up the way most brands go wrong, and what it takes to get to …
Brand Strategy = Exploration & Commitment
In our last post, we introduced Distility’s big brand strategy secret: At the heart of our approach lies a deep cultivation of the way a team explores and commits to their brand. Based on the quality of the team’s exploration and commitment, they can arrive at four distinct brand strategies: Fragmented …
Revealed: Distility’s Biggest Brand Strategy Success Secret
A successful brand strategy tells your team how you want your brand to be known. It identifies a desired brand reputation – one that, by being achieved, will accelerate your overall business success. So why do so many Brand Strategies, and the Brand Marketing that follows, experience an inglorious lack …
The future of advertising agencies looks like this?
What will the future of advertising look like? Just ask our friends at the FITC, or come to the FITC Design & Technology Festival. Toronto April 25th – 27th, 2010. For more information check out: www.fitc.ca
SEO and Social Media Build your Brand
In our last post, we defined brand and brand strategy, and noted that your public brand is rooted in your customers’ past impressions of your company, while your brand strategy is a vision of the future of your brand. Now we settle down and talk about the present, the now, …