Branding

Employees have to “get” your brand message first

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

If employees don’t understand and support your brand message, it’s doubtful anyone else will either. They have to bring the brand message to life.

It’s time to get serious about brand valuation

Monday, November 15th, 2004

The hottest and most perplexing term in branding these days is brand valuation, or how to measure the contribution a brand makes to a company’s overall performance. Branding pioneer Jim Gregory of CoreBrand tells us how.

Brand symbols becoming a dinosaur of another age

Saturday, May 15th, 2004

In the world of business-to-business marketing communications, the use of symbols to connote brand attributes is a lost art.

Negative brand images deserve the positive image treatment

Thursday, April 15th, 2004

Branding programs should put negative concerns at the top of the list of things to worry about.

The brand battlefield resides in customers’ minds

Thursday, January 15th, 2004

If you’re not fighting your battles on the right battlefield, then you’re not doing your job as a business-to-business marketer.

Create focused expectations of brands with ads

Monday, September 29th, 2003

Don’t miss the opportunity to create focused expectations for your brands with every ad.

Branding still a mystery to business advertisers

Monday, May 8th, 1995

Why is it that business-to-business marketing and advertising managers have such a hard time with the concept of brand image? Our consumer counterparts surely don’t.