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
Blogs have become the life force behind a brand's online identity. Blog posts fuel social media efforts, give search engines content to crawl and index, provide companies the opportunity to showcase themselves as thought leaders in their industry, and much more. As such, diving into creating a blog should not be taken lightly, but you … Continue reading Building Your Blog [SlideShare Presentation]
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
JC Penney has been going through a lot of changes lately, and that is an understatement. After changing their logo, leadership, strategy, and pricing model, they have been losing both their identity and their customers. But, they may have a plan to turn it all around. Check out this great article by Lisa Arthur about … Continue reading All Marketers Feel the Ups and Downs at JC Penney
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
So what is a Klout score and why should you care? Klout.com is becoming one of the most popular sites for understanding and growing your online network successfully. Klout was created to measure and understand, as well as leverage your brand's influence online. A recent article on Forbes.com by Dorie Clark breaks down why your … Continue reading Why Your Klout Score is Important
Your brand is the core of your business. As I have written in some of my other posts, maintaining brand consistency extremely important to customer relationship management, marketing, product development, advertising, company relationship with employees,and basically every facet of your company. This article by Ben Erickson is a perfect breakdown of why maintaining your brand … Continue reading Why Branding is so Important
This week, my twitter feed was full of quotes from SXSWi. I was not able to attend the conference myself, but agencies from all over the country have been tweeting and blogging about their experience there, so... I thought I would share some of my favorite takeaways that they have shared. Agencies Moosylvania - an … Continue reading Top 10 Favorite Takeaways from SXSWi
Check out the infographic below shared by PR Daily on what the top digital tools are, why they are the best, and who is already successfully leveraging them