Tag: Branding

One Key Thing That Will Transform Your Brand

Strategy by Michael McNew

Can you tell me simply what your company stands for? It’s a question that a lot of people have trouble answering. Your company exists for a purpose, and that purpose is not to make money or produce a specific product. It has a broader problem it’s trying to solve, or at least it should if you want to have long term success. What I find with a number of the clients I work with is that they can’t simply state that mission. They’ve always got a convoluted, detail-oriented, mixed-message explanation that would vary if you talked to different decision makers in the same company. Quite frankly, if you fall in to that category of people, that’s hurting your brand.

Why Branding Isn’t What You Think It Is

Branding by Michael McNew

Let’s be real. When you think of branding your company, you think of getting a new logo, some new business cards, and maybe a new sign on the building. You also probably think it’s an expensive exercise in vanity. If you’ve had any experience with a traditional branding company, you may be familiar with making all of your presentation materials – brochures, power points, print ads, etc – look and feel the same. But even still, as far as you can tell, you pay a lot of money to a graphic designer to slap some polish on the same old stuff. It’s for these reasons that you have probably avoided branding or re-branding your company at all costs. And I’m here to show you that you’re wrong.