How can nonprofit brands focus on real value?

Building clarity into a nonprofit’s communications of focus and commitment is critical in this new climate of increased expectations of real results. Everyone wants to know how to make a difference. How can your brand help? What’s the value you really bring?

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What is your brand’s end result? Know your outcome!

How do we choose, as consumers? How can brand value be positioned correctly with the brand name, the identity and the strategy that pitches the brand? These are tough questions that just don’t get enough attention because companies, non-profits and organizations are too busy selling what they already have – their products – not the customers’ solutions.

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A wine brand creates connection

This small winery out of South Australia has come up with a brilliant,simple idea that caught my attention…it fulfills the needs of the consumer and the wine company…

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What’s your brand cool?

So the brand is really a creation of our personality and chunk of our identity in our lives. It’s our story combined with the brand’s story.

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Bad Naming: Pyramid’s Haywire is gone (finally)

We say that an iconic, recognizable label needs three things: a clear visual that represents the name – an icon like the bison, the brand name and lastly the style of beer. This is what consumers are cruising for as they cover the shelves.

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The Touchpoints of Customer Service – That “Good Vibe” Feeling

If you’re like me most of your banking is done online these days. I go the accounts area, pay bills, move money around and occasionally check out other services, all with no person involved. I then deposit checks at nonhuman ATM machines. I usually only interact when I need something fixed or just plain don’t…

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