Translating company values into action principles
It’s all very well having a purpose and company values, but how have you translated those into actionable principles that guide what you will do and won’t do?
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5 common brand mistakes (and how to recover from them)
Marketers talk a lot about brands growing and expanding, but when should a brand pull back? Here are five common brand mistakes and the best things to do if you want to recover.
Winning as a small brand
Small brands are edgy, attuned and preferred. That seems to be a common sentiment right now. But there is nothing to suggest that any of this makes it easy to win as a small brand today.
Balancing brand priorities
Brands drive attention and income off awareness, but they derive their real value from their ability to shift and sustain longer term sentiment.
Brands get what they deserve
Every brand decision is a negotiation between what has worked to date and what is required to succeed going forward.
Clarifying your brand’s viewpoints
It’s happened to Doc Martins, Burberry and others over the years: groups turned their brand into a symbol of something the brand itself did not believe or endorse.
7 ways brands break their promises
Some time back, I looked at what it took to get a brand promise right. In this post, I want to examine the converse: when (consumers feel that) brands have not lived up to what they said they would deliver. What happens to generate customer disappointment?
Why brands contradict themselves (& when that’s OK)
Can the same brand take two quite different positions? Yes. And no.
The end of brand maintenance
It’s tempting when your brand is trending to believe that the hard work is done. In point of fact, it may just be beginning.
Do brands have a finite size?
Marketers talk about brands as vehicles for growth. But does that mean they should just keep growing – or is there a point when they reach critical mass?