The new year is a great time for goal setting. There are a number of schools of thought on goal setting and how to track and measure your progress. Whatever your goal setting and tracking paradigm, if increasing brand awareness or building your brand is one of your goals, then …
Steve Jobs’ Buddhist Branding Secret
The real secret to Steve Jobs’ branding success stems from his time spent studying Buddhism in India. It was there that he learned the importance Buddhism places on intuition. Here is what Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson: “The people in the Indian countryside don’t use their intellect like we …
Startup Branding – Early Stage Dilemmas
You would expect that branding an early stage startup would be easier than branding an established firm. You have a clean slate. There are no brand architecture or strategy issues to fix. The client is excited and passionate about the work. They are motivated to get it done. But early …
3 Ingredients to Make a Good Brand
To Create a Good Brand, Your Brand Needs to Get Three Key Ingredients Working Together. A good brand is one that has attained prime space in your target customer’s mind so that the brand is remembered as the customer’s preferred solution. There are three overarching ingredients to creating a good …
Is Your Brand at Risk as You Grow?
At Distility we enjoy having our offices at the MaRS Centre. On top of the excellent location, there is an energy associated with being surrounded by innovative organizations which range from early stage start-up to established technology company (and every stage in between). The chatter in the halls also has …
Best of Brand Marketing Distilled – 11/11/11 – Random Acts of Kindness
Best of Brand Marketing Distilled is our weekly distillation 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 Remembrance Day our edition focuses on Random Acts of Kindness. On a personal level, this Remembrance Day …
Brand Architecture: What Is an Endorser Brand?
[Update: The best practices in Brand Architecture: What Is an Endorser Brand can now be found in our free brand architecture ebook, How to Organize Your Brands. Download it today.] ORGANIZE YOUR BRANDS WITH OUR FREE EBOOK Endorser Brand Architecture An endorser brand architecture is made up of individual and …
Brand Architecture: What Is a Freestanding Brand?
[UPDATE: THE BEST PRACTICES IN WHAT IS BRAND ARCHITECTURE: What Is a Freestanding Brand CAN NOW BE FOUND IN OUR FREE BRAND ARCHITECTURE EBOOK, HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR BRANDS. DOWNLOAD IT TODAY.] ORGANIZE YOUR BRANDS WITH OUR FREE EBOOK This post is the fifth in our series on brand architecture. …
Brand Architecture Basics: What Is a Masterbrand?
[UPDATE: THE BEST PRACTICES IN BRAND ARCHITECTURE: WHAT IS A MASTERBRAND CAN NOW BE FOUND IN OUR FREE BRAND ARCHITECTURE EBOOK, HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR BRANDS. DOWNLOAD IT TODAY.] ORGANIZE YOUR BRANDS WITH OUR FREE EBOOK Our blog posts What Is Brand Architecture? and How to Choose Your Brand Architecture? …
Best of Brand Marketing Distilled – 09/09/2011
Best of Brand Marketing Distilled is our weekly distillation 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 week we offer a distillation of the expert client divide, content considerations for inbound marketing, the potential …