Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.
A great brand is a story that's never completely told.
The thing about branding is it isn't etched in stone. A brand is a mark or an image or a perception we stamp on a product, a concept or an ideal, but it doesn't last forever. Like anything else, it needs to be nurtured and reinforced, or it will start to fade.
Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your "blind" date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
Overall, because branding is about creating and sustaining trust it means delivering on promises. The best and most successful brands are completely coherent. Every aspect of what they do and what they are reinforces everything else.
Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!
Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture.
As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.
If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.
Focus on identifying your target audience, communicating an authentic message that they want and need and project yourself as an "expert" within your niche.
You too are a brand. Whether you know it or not. Whether you like it or not.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Too many companies believe that all they must do is provide a 'neat' technology or some 'cool' product or, sometimes, just good, solid engineering. Nope. All of those are desirable (and solid engineering is a must), but there is much more to a successful product than that: understanding how the product is to be used, design, engineering, positioning, marketing, branding-all matter. It requires designing the Total User Experience.
In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.
Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.
The key to branding, especially for smaller firms, is to focus on a limited number of issue areas and develop superb expertise in those areas.
Your personal brand is a promise to your clients... a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability.
In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.
Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.
It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
In any branding strategy, you need to figure out what is the image you want to project. Then behave accordingly. And above all, cultivate the media and those who will help you burnish your reputation.
If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.
When you're too concerned about branding, you're restricting yourself.
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