Nov 22, 2010
Posted in Advertising, Branding, Business Marketing
Guerrilla marketing can be extremely effective
If you do it correctly, guerrilla marketing is a boon for any marketer. It stretches your advertising dollar farther than ever possible and it can even go so far as to earn you the respect of your competitors. But why simply talk about this off hand? Let me offer you an example of this.
At the Beijing Olympics, Adidas pumped in millions of dollars by way of advertisements. They were fully expected to do so. They were, after all, official sponsors of the Games. Adidas has the kind of marketing budget few do, and Chinese sporting goods manufacturer Li Ning certainly did not have those kind of dollars to spend. But their solution [...]
Nov 18, 2010
Posted in Advertising, Branding, Business Marketing
Creative advertising springs forth from big ideas
Here's a quick question. Does an advertising campaign give birth to a great idea or does creative campaign emerge because it springs forth from a great idea? Go on, think about it for a bit. That question is the marketing man's equivalent of the chicken and the egg. In case you're still thinking about it at this point, look at the post title, I kind of gave it away there. Not my best idea, I know. But is it just an academic argument if you were to wonder whether great ideas give birth to creative campaigns or is the opposite true?
Any young company, whilst growing, starts to lay down its roots and establish its brands. Every [...]
Nov 11, 2010
Posted in Branding
Brand stories define your customers and business
There was a time, not so long ago, when we didn't quite mind having the same stuff as everyone else and we bought products and services, not the brands that offered them. That was when the market was being treated as a commodity, but no more. More and more, we are seeking out brands that define us, reach out to us, speak to us, that seem to be us in many ways rival brands just cannot be. Everything we purchase has a ripple effect. And what it's saying is this is who I am, or in a more aspirational sense that this is who I want to be seen as. The brands we associate with are the brands that mean something to us, the brands that [...]
Aug 1, 2010
Posted in Branding
Are you a Brand
Don’t you think that we have become the brand itself and that its high time we start getting paid for advertising the brands. You ask me, Grr, what are you talking about? Are you in your senses? Yes, Definitely I am. It has been long long time now that we are promoting brands by of course spending good money. Today’s commercial environment could get us nothing at free cost or minimal cost. Everywhere people are competing against each other to produce their brands as the superior one. Well, getting back to our topic on BRANDS. We are promoting brands by spending lavish money to be tagged as happening and hot, yes, people [...]
Jul 22, 2010
Posted in Branding
Building your brand in playboy style
Well, many people would go bananas - what the hell playboy is doing in a management blog? If the term playboy sounds synonymous to sex than you are a part of other millions of people having the same association feelings with the term. Well, for our branding discussion for today let me be very clear that the playboy brand is surely going to get us results and the article is not about sex. For centuries, marketing has been a subject of controversies with different ideas, exposures, facts, etc. but somehow it is still existent as it’s really necessary to have all of these. There has been lots of brands which has created history [...]
Jul 15, 2010
Posted in Branding
Is your Brand powerful enough to lead a Story
The dream for any entrepreneur today is to expand his brand recognition in the market to be able to sell his products in the market. A brand once created in the mind of people goes a long way in expanding the growth of your business. What do you think the leading brands of today have in common? Is it just the marketing efforts they have put in? Or there is something else to it. May whatever we might think, they are the Branding concepts that are easily recognized by people and are able to relate to it. Have you ever noticed, how competitive brands tell us bigger stories that you feel a need to belong. The concepts of branding [...]
Jul 13, 2010
Posted in Branding
Top Branding myths debunked
Branding has always secured an important position in the marketing world, right from product packaging to the quality of the product to product recognition – all are important for Branding a product identity in the global marketing world. Most of the times, it so happens that you are clearly negative about buying the product or even looking at it but when the same thing is told to you time and again, you tend to give at least 10 percent of attention looking at it or rather buying it. That is where the role of Branding arrives, bigger companies are only keen on selling their products by hook or by crook and that is the main [...]
Mar 22, 2010
Posted in Branding
Branding for lawyers
Whether we may agree to the fact or no, your personal brand makes all the difference to your company’s market recognition. Designing and creating a company brand takes a little more than designing your company logo. Lots of research and hardwork goes before you go on to create a personal brand. The branding for lawyers especially requires you to bring around multi facets of your business together, the multi faceted values for your law firm includes the goals, the values, the strategies that you may want to implement in your business.
Well, as per the common thinking of people they may regard that an Image of a brand is everything [...]
Mar 19, 2010
Posted in Branding
Branding for Law Firms
According to the American Marketing Association, a brand can be termed as the symbol or a design or a name that identifies the sellers or companies or recognized by its services to the final customers. “Trademark” is the legal word that is used to term a brand. A brand may have multiple products to sell under its name, when you talk about a BRAND; it means you are referring to all the products sold under that name. There are numerous branding techniques people adhere to in this competitive world or lawmakers and lawbreakers. It has especially gained more momentum with consumer awareness, their rights, and the laws protection [...]
Mar 18, 2010
Posted in Branding
Law firm branding
The increasing number of competitiveness amongst the market players of the economy has landed us in a position where law firm branding has become an important. The main strategy for law firm branding is to define your market arena and at the same time focus on your message. The main problem faced by any law firm is how to get themselves a unique position in the market where compared to other law firms. If you want to showcase yourself as a unique provider in the market, you got to provide services that are the best on the face value of a commodity. You can only attract more consumers to your business by differentiating yourself [...]
