Category Archives: Branding

Know thy “Why.”

While we’re on the subject of purpose, when was the last time you communicated the “why” of your business — either internally to your employees or externally to your customers?

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Pulling emotion out of thin air.

Just because you sell a service, doesn’t mean you should sell yourself short on an emotional level. It just involves understanding and following a simple rule:  Service businesses need to communicate tangibles.

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Be your (differentiated) self.

It’s time-tested advice that’s simple in premise but not always practiced. Actually, it’s difficult to count the number of times a company or product we’re working with wants to be positioned as something they’re not—usually it’s the opposite.

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Honesty, please?

The BP oil spill, the Goldman Sachs indictment. …When was the last time you heard a business leader or company speak honestly about a situation? No one in corporate America seems to want to accept responsibility for anything. It would be so refreshing to hear something honest from a politician, athlete, celebrity or corporate executive, [...]

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