Branding

Cola cans 715The word “brand” has come to have many definitions.  The key is that when you are working on your brand it is important to use a common vocabulary so that you and your colleagues are communicating in the same language.

Here are three simple definitions:

What is a brand?
•    A brand is what an organization wishes to be known for.  It is a pro-active strategic process to establish the direction, leadership, clarity of purpose and inspiration for the organization’s mission.  It is an inside-out process.

What is positioning?
•    Positioning is how an organization and the services it provides are perceived in the minds of its target audiences.  It is looking from the outside-in.  The challenge is to have your brand and positioning in alignment.

What is corporate identity?
•    Corporate identity is the visual expression of the organization’s name, logo, tagline.

Let us help you to sharpen your brand so that it communicates the essence of your company’s value proposition.

Personal Branding the Concert Pianist Way

This blog first appeared in Recessionwire.

Most of us have heard so often that it’s important to have a personal brand that we’re sick of it. The overuse of the term is beginning to devalue it. I’m not a box of cereal; I’m a human being, you might say.

That is true. And it is increasingly difficult to find a differentiator as the competition for jobs and consulting assignments is so fierce. Maybe it’s because we’re looking at ourselves as a business....Read the full post here

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