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Entries Tagged as 'Brand Management'

Naming Tips – Number 39 in a Series

October 18th, 2007 · No Comments

This tip concerns product features – should they be named or not? Unless they are a key differentiator for the product – think North Star – it’s probably a waste of time and money.

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Tags: Brand Management · Branding · Name Creation

Here’s a modest product with pro-like branding

September 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Singing the praises for the branding of this tattoo fading product, Wrecking Balm. Name, logo, tag and package all work together, and I’ll bet, cause word-of-mouth, aka viral, activity.

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Tags: B2B Branding · Brand Management · Branding · Corporate Identity · Logo Development · Name Creation · Tagline Creation

Protect your Trademarked Brand from Going Public

September 17th, 2007 · No Comments

To assure your trademark doesn’t fall intothe public domain like Yo-Yo and Nylon have, follow the six simple rules outlined in this blog

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Tags: Brand Management · Branding · Intellectual Property · Name Creation

This IT company needs focus

September 10th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Another blog from the group called BrandingWire. This post is one of about ten by this “posse of pundits” on the subject of branding an IT services business. Here at The Branding Blog I’ve asked this firm to focus, niche and then focus some more.

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Tags: Brand Management · Branding · Branding Strategies · Not categorized · Positioning

Branding for Referrals? Tell a Story

August 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Your brand’s story should be based on Scott Degraffenreid’s N.U.D.E. Model (novelty, utility, dependability and economy) if you will rely on referral business.

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Tags: B2B Branding · Brand Management · Branding · Branding Strategies

A Trademark is the Narrowest View of a Brand

August 9th, 2007 · No Comments

The concept behind trademarks: their sole legal purpose is to identify the source of a product, company or service, not to name it. Company names aren’t trademarked.

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Tags: Brand Management · Branding

Estes Park: a Resort with an Inferiority Complex

July 9th, 2007 · 9 Comments

A BrandingWire entry: this site participates in a monthly common blog fest about a single subject. This month, the resort town of Estes Park, Colorado. The branding blog contends that Estes Park has an inferiority complex.

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Tags: Brand Management · Branding · Branding Strategies · Tagline Creation

Unconscious Brand Building

June 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This blog demonstrates how a B-to-B company branded itself over time without ever considering they were branding. They were just “doing their thing”. Meet North American Manufacturing.

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Tags: Brand Management · Branding · Branding Strategies