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Want to attract the best talent for your scale-up?

In Employer Branding by Axle Davids

Define your Employer Value Proposition and watch your hiring quickly soar We hear more and more from our clients how recruiting and retaining top talent is vital for the overall success of the business. Finding top talent is only getting tougher as competition increases, the skills gap widens and millennials …

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How to Be a Self-Sufficient Brand

In Branding Evaluation by Axle Davids

What if, one day, your agency became unreliable or too expensive? Or what if you acquired the resources to bring branding in-house?  Would you be ready to take charge of your firm’s brand? Would you understand it well enough to lead the transition to a new agency? Brand Self-Sufficiency Checklist …

Lumira Ventures. Rebranded.

In Building a Brand by Axle Davids

Today, Lumira Ventures is excited to debut its new website at www.lumira.vc, new branding and change of name from Lumira Capital to Lumira Ventures. Over the past 30 years, Lumira has been at the forefront of the healthcare investment industry. Driven by their unique strategy, the team has overseen the …

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Brand Architecture Is the Job No One Wants

In Branding Evaluation by Axle Davids

Brand architecture – the high-level structuring of your brand’s offers – is a must if you want to scale your brand without wasting time and money. It affects product naming. It informs advertising. It determines how your corporate trade-mark will appear around other brands in your roster. It can even …

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How to Fake Brand Authenticity

In Building a Brand by Axle Davids

If you’re interested in making a thoroughly insipid brand seem earnest and meaningful, this video has all the pointers you’ll need. Warning: Feigned Brand Authenticity Branding Agency Good & Evil It goes to show how easy it can be to massage the even most overused imagery and ubiquitous verbiage into …

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Pragmatic Brand Strategy

In Building a Brand by Axle Davids

A strategy is knowing where you want to play and how you want to win. A brand strategy is playing in the right customer’s mind, and winning with a brand promise, personality and position that are compelling, credible and competitive. At Distility, we are pragmatists.  We are passionate in our …

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Why Fonts Can Make or Break Your Brand

In Branding Evaluation by Axle Davids

Type is one of the most viewed elements of your brand. Good brands stick to clean, consistent font systems that allow their marketing copy to set a mood and deliver a message. When looking at your own brand, it’s important to pay attention to your font hierarchy, and know whether …

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How Should Your Brand Use Its Colour Palette?

In Branding Evaluation by Axle Davids

One of the first things you notice about a brand is its colour. Whether it’s leader red, conservative blue or friendly orange, colour makes a vital impression. Not only does it establish a mood, it makes a brand recognizable. Your Colour Palette: What’s the Point? A great visual identity is …

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Can People Recognize Your Social Media Icon?

In Branding Evaluation by Axle Davids

A great brand identity can really drive social media engagement. Sounds obvious, but a lot of companies overlook one critical piece of online infrastructure: the social media icon. The Sad State of Social Media Icons A social media icon is the small square image that acts as a brand’s profile …