Tag: consumer brands

Brand Think – Weekend Reading

From Lilian Wong’s Brand Think: a guide to branding:

Brands are undeniably pervasive in our lives. Besides the consumer brands that we use daily, there is subconsciuous awareness of how the way our lives chart out, had something to do with the brands we were associated with. I am talking about brands we choose for education, career, and maybe, even the district we live in, each of which carry meanings and associations, and could perhaps have made our lives somewhat different.

The concept of Brand Person […] is and easy concept for anyone to relate to. It offers a starting point for people to put more thought into getting into brandint and taking control of marketing their own brands. That’s how Brand Think emerged. It has to get down to knowing the nuts and bolts of branding and committing to a discipline of action.

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Building an Internal Brand

Employees, like consumers, are bombarded all day by information. Brands are a way by which we identify our priorities. Consumer brands help us simplify our lives and streamline our selection-making. Internal brands enable us to prioritize our most precious resource: time.

By linking your corporate brand to your culture and values – thereby creating an [tag]internal brand[/tag] – your organization can create a platform from which to communicate to your employees the vision, mission and urgency. Internal branding helps improve credibility and strengthens the bonds of trust between leaders and employees. When people are united in purpose and know where they are headed, positive results can occur.

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Trends in Future Marketing

Someday in the not-so-distant future, branding as we know it will be thought of as so 20th century. With societal, cultural and technological changes occurring at increasingly accelerated rates, keeping your eye on the horizon of future trends in branding gives your company the advantage.

1. Consumers Are the New Creative Directors
Born from consumers’ desire to differentiate themselves from the mass market, this trend toward customization will continue to grow with the flexibility and efficiencies offered by technology at home and in manufacturing.

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