Recently, we had the pleasure of working on a client project that involved the creation of both a brand strategy and content marketing strategy. It is extremely exciting to witness how strongly a well-defined brand strategy works to focus the creation of a knowledge-driven content marketing plan. The first step …
Mars Curiosity: NASA Brand Building with Personality
While the Mars rover Curiosity has successfully landed on the Red Planet, it has also blasted off in social media. In the past few days, @MarsCuriosity has rocketed on Twitter from a respectable 140,000 followers to 850,000 followers. We admit that we began following @MarsCuriosity on August 3, 2012, and …
Colour Choices Can Make or Break Your Brand Marketing
When you are creating your brand marketing, your colour choices should support both your brand and your message. Consistent use of your brand colour or colours will help you build your brand into a valuable intangible asset. In your brand marketing messages, it’s important to consider how your colours might …
How to Evaluate Slogans and Taglines
A slogan or tagline, as outlined in our post What Makes a Good Tagline, is a short, pithy sentence that acts as a rallying cry for your brand. It works to: directly communicate the essence of your brand to your target audience, and inspire your team to be proud of …
What Makes a Slogan Memorable?
A good slogan (also known as a good tagline) is a cornerstone of an enduring brand. To be good, a slogan needs to be memorable. An important aspect of branding is to ensure your brand is remembered by your target customers and customers. A recent Cornell University research paper provides …
The Minimum Viable Brand
Minimum Viable Brand Requirements Through our technology clients, we were fortunate to have had early exposure to the new wave of programming that began about a decade ago and prominently features the concept of the “minimum viable product”. A minimum viable product only has the features that allow the product …
Best of Brand Marketing Distilled – 11/04/2011 – Occupy Wall Street
Best of Brand Marketing Distilled is our weekly distillation of the best of brand marketing and business intelligence. This week’s edition features the Occupy Wall Street movement. As set out in the articles distilled below, the Occupy movement has no one core message but is comprised of a large number …
How to Choose Your Brand Architecture
As a brand marketer you can’t afford to be ignorant about Brand Architecture. Beyond your need to grasp this kind of branding fundamental, your organization will be best served if your brand architecture is planned to allow effective scaling as additional offerings are added to your portfolio. As described in …
Innovative Brand Campaigns and Knowledge Marketing
@1day1brand top tweets for the week ending July 8, 2011. Innovative Brand Campaigns – Successful, Lacklustre & Green Successful: HBO Finds Its Own Way With Social Networking – http://ow.ly/5w7W5 Lacklustre: Pepsi Rebranding 101: First, Do No Harm – http://ow.ly/5tuJB Green Brand Strategy: A Swedish Burger Chain Says “Minimize Me” – …
Overload: Vision, Mission, Values, Purpose, Brand
I met with a fantastic organization that does huge business in the USA. They are routinely winning awards and business because they have such an energized and engaged culture. The company will do profound leadership work, say on their values, and then ensure that these concepts are thoroughly metabolized throughout …