Monthly Archives: September 2008

Customer perceptions drive business.

What your customers believe about you and what you sell is fact. It is your brand. What they say about you to others is equally critical. These are the perceptions they perpetuate—which in turn help strengthen your brand or degrade it.

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What business are you in?

Seems a simple enough question to answer. But after asking that question in countless boardrooms over the past 16 years, we assure you it is not. And it shouldn’t be. Here’s why: THE core element of defining a brand is defining a business. In that regard, brand and business are inseparable.

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Case Studies: A quality control checklist.

Most marketers will agree that customer stories are a powerful way to communicate the value of a company, product or service. Nobody speaks more loudly than customers. But if that’s the case, why do so many customer case studies fall short?

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