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A Guide To The Brand Name – The Identifying Badge Of Your Company
Oct 29th
Developing a brand is a difficult challenge even for the most experienced executives. And as the economy shows no signs of recovering anytime soon, more and more consumers are looking at the price tag before they look at the brand name. Even big established companies have problem with branding in new markets. Often, launching their products in other countries that have different language creates different meaning or interpretation to their brand name.
It goes without saying that you have to prioritize your brand name. To the outside world, the brand name represents who you are and what you do. What business do you run? How does your business differ from others? What is your business focused on doing? And once everything is said and done, how and why are you unique? Because the level of competition is tougher with smaller or independent business entities, choosing a good and solid brand name is of greater importance. You want to take quality time to design your brand name properly so that you can add that professional touch that could help you stand out from the crowd and compete with the movers and shakers of Corporatelandia.
When you have decided what brand to create, you have to vigilantly reinforce it every moment you are in business. Two tools you can use to reinforce your brand would be the right domain name and powerful online content. Your brand should be so overwhelmingly powerful that it should manifest itself in every single thing that comes out of your corporate headquarters. Everywhere you use your brand with uniformity, you are communicating with the voice of your company.
But over the years, there have been some false notions about the naming game. There are those who think size is irrelevant when it is in fact very essential. Do not go for long names or highfalutin words. Thus, the shorter the name is the better. Aside from being easily remembered by your customers, you can also save a considerable amount of money from not having to spend extra dollars in materials when painting them on vehicles, boards or any material. Moreover, many business owners think that there are people gullible enough to interpret every business name literally. But this is not really the case. When a person sees a deodorant brand that says No sweat he won’t literally think that when using the products he would definitely not sweat. That is just absurd. Likewise, no one would think that a car from Rent-A-Wreck is really a wreck. These are catchy names but no one above the age of 7 would take them literally.
All things considered, it should be noted that creating a brand name is not an overnight process. It takes time for brands to become fully established. Now if you develop your brand to make it strong and to make it stand out from the crowd, you always want to use it as often and as consistently as possible to cultivate familiarity in the minds of consumers.
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How to Be a Rainmaker
Sep 24th
Rain- Thats been the weather here in New York for what feels like aforever! Since when did Seattle and New York have a swap that I didn’t know of ?
Since rain was the topic du-jour this past June/July it makes me recall a presentation on Branding I was privy to given by Ben Mack which I think had the title: “How to Be a Rainmaker” so something like that.
In this and ensuing articles I am going to attempt to cover the major partsof the talkwhich included: 1) Making lightning Strike, 2) How to keep the lightning striking and 3) Bottling your lightning.
For those of you not familiar with Dr. Ben Mack, he is one of the chief powers that be on Branding today in the USA. He has worked at over 14 different Ad agencies over his illustrious career and held position of Vice President for Brand strategy for a very large corporation.
Essentially, what that means was he was in charge of a ” billion dollar budget (that’s correct, I said ” billion or 500 million smakers)! Do you think he knows what he is talking about? I most certainly do, and not only has he performed magic for the various companies he has worked for, he is also a professional magician who at the age of 19 was the youngest beneficiary of the Award of Merit given by the Academy of Magical Arts.
So, what is a Rainmaker and why do we want to turn out to be one? a Rainmaker, aside from the apparent implication of an indian medicine man or shaman who uses his “magic” to bring rain, is an individual with uncanny ability to attract customers, use political connections and increase profits. However, with the rain also follows the the lightning! I will get into this more later.
As a marketer your most important duty is to “up sell” people on their experience of reality. In Benjamin Mack’s book “Think Two Products Ahead” he speaks about how the most valuable branding really only occurs only when people think two products ahead rather than just thinking here and now and to build a successful relationship with your clients or customers through your Brand. The section where Ben teaches how to construct your Legend Platform is worth much more than the price of the book itself!
Your “Brand” (the one called YOU!) is constructed around the concept of a “legend” or that is told over and over again and somewhere down the road get stronger with time. These tales can and should be permitted to be at odds to each other. So, if you had to single out what type of story you should use to make your business shine like a diamond (you are reading articles like these to do so correct?) why not have them be legends. How else will you become “Legendary” in your chosen field without them?
Stay tuned for the next part in the series of articles covering Dr. Bens How to Become a Rainmaker.
