You could easily spend hours upon hours a day working to grow and manage your personal brand online and offline. But you won’t have to spend such a large amount of time if you are use the right tools. I commonly receive the question about what tools I use to more efficiently manage my personal … Continue reading 11 Tools for Managing and Growing Your Personal Brand
A brand is not only a company, logo, or trademark; it is anything that identifies or differentiates one thing from another. That could be one company from another, such as Coca-cola and Pepsi, or one person from another. As marketers in the digital space it has become more critical than ever to develop and grow our personal … Continue reading A Marketer’s Guide to Getting Started with Personal Branding
We all know that content is king, and its empire is growing by the minute. This is more true now more than ever since Google's Hummingbird algorithm update. One of the best ways to add content to your website is to create and maintain a blog focused around topics relevant to your company's industry. A … Continue reading How to Create Your Own WordPress Blog: A Video Tutorial
What separates two brands in an industry, from one being successful and another not? Brand passion! The passion that company founders have for their brands is transferred to their customers, so customers not only purchase products but they become brand advocates because they are as passionate about the brand as the brand creator. There is … Continue reading 3 Lessons in Brand Passion from Winning Brand Builders
So you have been developing your online brand identity, making sure that your website is both enticing and user friendly. But, now imagine this challenge: "There are five brands within a larger corporate brand. Each brand is required maintain their own online identity, but must also stay connected to the parent company." Yeah, I would … Continue reading The Challenge of Creating a Connection Between Multiple Brands
The right packaging can make or break a customer's decision to purchase a product. If the packaging is unappealing, a customer will not give the product a second thought. Instead, they will move right on to a competitor product, and a sale, as well as a potential customer relationship is lost. One area of packaging … Continue reading Starbucks: Refreshers
Dan Cobley, a marketing director at Google, gave a presentation at the TED Global 2010 conference titled "What Physics Taught Me About Marketing". When I first saw the title of this presentation I was hooked, I had to know how can marketing and branding principles be explained using physics. Well, Dan Cobley explains just that … Continue reading Marketing Explained Using the Laws and Principles of Physics
I recently read a great article by Jenna Langer, on how brands can better connect with their customers by creating a brand that is "human". As we all know, humanizing a brand is not a small request; as medias (i.e. social media) and customer expectations continue to change, this challenge becomes more difficult. In the … Continue reading Jenna Langer: 5 Ways to Humanize Your Brand
Mobile usage is on the rise as more and more consumers are purchasing smartphones and tablets. Mobile marketing, whether through advertising, a mobile site, or an app, is the best way to reach your customers at the exact point of purchase. With mobile marketing you can reach customers at the moments that matter the most. … Continue reading Google’s Playbook for Winning at Mobile
“The future of branding is marketing with people and not at them.” This is one of the great quotes included in this new article from BrandGrowth. This post is based around the book Brand Against the Machine (which I am definitely downloading onto my Kindle when I get home). This article does a great job … Continue reading Future of Branding – What Goes into a Branding Framework