Brand vs Brand Strategy: The Rematch

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It is time once again explore the absolutely fascinating subjects of brand and brand strategy. We’ll pick up our conversation again with some useful definitions. Brand. Your company’s brand can be thought of as its image in the collective mind of the marketplace – its personality, promise, and position as perceived …

Sprouter Company Profile

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Sprouter Talks…to Distility about the new branding By: Erin Bury, Community Manager at Sprouter. Tues Feb 23rd, 2010 If you’re an entrepreneur at some point you had to sit around with a whiteboard trying to think of a name for your company. You probably sent ideas to your peers and …

Use SEO to ruin a good brand name: 3 easy steps

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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. …

Branding is Broken – A Call to Arms

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Branding is ill-defined, usually vacuous, often expensive and totally unpredictable – Seth Godin in Seth’s Blog Incomprehensible Voodoo – Guy Kawasaki in The Art of the Start We are brand technologists. We love branding and believe in it. But we are here to say that branding is broken. 

Distility CEO Axle Davids to speak at Refresh Events

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  Axle Davids, “Pragmatic Branding: How to Create Brands That Are Simple, Social and Scalable” February 16th 2010, 6:30pm Function 13, 156 Augusta Avenue, Toronto Admission: $10 Agenda 6:30-7:30 Mix & Mingle 7:30-8:30 Presentation: “Pragmatic Branding: How to Create Brands That Are Simple, Social and Scalable” 8:30-9:00 QA 9:00 Post-Event …

Axle Davids to speak at Toronto Business Development Centre

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TBDC Entrepreneur Forum – Thursday February 11, 2010 Pragmatic Branding: Create brands that are simple, social and scalable Featured Speaker: Axle Davids, Principal – Distility Branding Discover a plug and play open source model that is easy for your team to learn and use to build in-house branding muscle. Learn …

Brand Strategy Future – Visionary Words from P&G CEO

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I’m pretty blown away by the Adage.com interview with P&G CEO Bob McDonald. His thoughts on brand strategy are in perfectly sync with those of Lisa Bradner. Lisa is the author of Forrester’s “Adaptive Brand Marketing” we’re big fans of hers. McDonald is taking it to another level here, and …