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 Ikea Brand: A New TV Brand Category Competitor
Your competition is all the other solutions that are vying to resolve your customer’s needs. An important part of defending your brand’s ability to compete is to think about your competition and how they are vying to solve your customers’ needs. However, if both you and your established competition are …
When Is It Time to Redo Your Brand’s Website?
It is a reality of the digital age that customers, leads, prospective employees, vendors and other stakeholders will assess your brand based on your brand’s website. Not having a website at all leaves the impression that you are a fresh start-up or potentially fly-by-night risk; for an established brands, the …
Inbound Marketing Step 2: Be Clear on Your Audience
Inbound marketing is a brand marketing strategy that focuses on having customers and potential customers find you. This blog post is the second in our series of posts designed to help you progress from inbound marketing wannabe to your brand’s inbound marketing hero. The first post “Is Your Brand Ready …
Inbound Marketing Step 1: Is Your Brand Ready to Start Inbound Marketing?
Inbound marketing is a brand marketing strategy that focuses on having customers and potential customers find you. When inbound marketing is effective, it results in your ideal customers seeking you out and investing the time to learn about your brand’s offering as a solution to their need. Like all marketing …
What to do About a Bad Corporate Brand Name
Reframing the Issue of a Bad Brand Name One of the biggest obstacles to brand marketing success is a badly named brand. For both new marcom hires and marketing consultants, it is a difficult issue to raise, but, as few of us are hired to be yes-men, it is not …
Logo Design Is a Waste of Space
Logo + Wordmark – What’s the Difference? At Distility, we design wordmarks, not logos. A logo is a graphic symbol which represents a brand. A wordmark is a text-only typographic representation which is built from the letters in the brand name. Three Reasons Why Wordmarks Are Part of Pragmatic Brand Marketing We …
Should Brand Strategy be Actual or Aspirational?
During our Distiliy 1day1brand events, participants ask: “When we are developing our brand strategy today, should we be thinking of the brand we are now? Or the brand we aspire to be?” For instance, one client has a multimillion dollar capitol project that won’t be completed for three years. Should …
How Often Should a Company Rebrand?
A Company Should Strive to Rebrand as Infrequently as Possible. By doing a rock-solid job on brand strategy and brand systems, your brand should be vibrant for at least ten years or more. After that time, your strategy may be the same but your systems (logo, tagline, colours, fonts, imagery) …