In early September, Apple held its annual iPhone event. Since then, new product demos and ads for the iPhone 6s, iPad Pro and Apple Pencil have been widely circulated. Naturally, many editorials followed about this year’s goodies and their features. But we’d like to look at something else. Something more …
A Long Brand Name Can Ruin a Wordmark
A wordmark is a specially stylized typographical treatment of the letters in your brand name. An effective wordmark focuses your customer’s attention on your name, while driving home some desirable first impressions about your brand. When your company has a long name – and by long we mean more than …
Distility Rebrands Branding for Software Engineers
Well, it’s safe to say it – we have been busy bees here at Distility. Whether we’ve been on the road for branding workshops, or building brands right here in our office, we’ve had no shortage of projects this year. And with all the hustle and bustle, it’s been harder …
Best of Brand Marketing Distilled – 08/01/2012 – New Top-level Domain Names
Best of Brand Marketing Distilled is our periodic distillations of the best of brand marketing and business intelligence. We hope the ideas and articles are fuel for your organization’s planning and success. This edition focuses on a new development in internet marketing: the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) names. In …
Brand Naming: When Time Equals Money
At Distility we are passionate about delivering branding at the speed of business rather than at the typical glacial speed of other branding agencies and consultants. To make this possible, we developed Distility 1day1brand which allows our customers to develop their brand strategy in one day. We have also developed …
What Is Your Company Naming Strategy?
Brand Naming – The Search Begins Clients come to Distility when their brand name is no longer working for them. It may no longer fit what they do. It may not allow them to expand into new markets. They may be under siege because they did not do their legal …
Use SEO to ruin a good brand name: 3 easy steps
In our first post on SEO and Branding, we explored how the competing demands of search engine optimization (SEO) and brand strategy can make decisions like naming rather difficult. Here is the basic problem: core branding principles tell us that when naming a company or product, go unique or go home. …
Brand Strategy and SEO: The Naming Dilemma
Brand has been an important business tool and concept for more than a century. Search engine optimization (SEO), on the other hand, has been a serious concern for scarcely a dozen years. So what’s the relationship between the two? This is a surprisingly deep question, so we’ll devote a number …