If you’ve got a B2B brand – selling your products and services to other businesses – then you know that there are some very unique challenges to marketing your business-to-business brand. A lot of the branding lessons out there are great – and some certainly translate to B2B. But most of those lessons are built Read More
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4 Occasions Your Brand Story will Make You Stand Out
Your brand story touches off a story in the mind of your audience that involves them and sets you apart as the only one they’ll trust to solve their problem. But if that’s true, why are so many stories lacking empathy, focus, values and seriousness? Today, we’ll talk about these things as well as 4 Read More
2 Common Brand Values Missteps That Keep Companies From Creating Authentic and Interesting Brands
Authentic brand values are one of the most critical parts of your brand strategy. Most companies have some version of them posterized on a wall in their often – often labeled as ‘Core Values’. So many companies find it necessary to have these values but very few of them actually have ones that are distinctive Read More
Brand Personality: 4 Pitfalls to Avoid and Make You Look Genius
Great branding impacts your entire brand presence, including everything you say and do. Your brand’s personality is an important — and very visible — part of your that presence that builds favor and trust with your customers. These 4 principles for discovering your brand personality will help you as you nail down your own unique, Read More
Trust or Conversion? How Content Marketing Builds both Brand and Sales
Content strategy for B2B brands has two primary functions: to build trust and then develop that trust into working business relationships that benefit everyone involved. So how do you think about content strategy in order to set yourself up for building trust, and then converting? Let’s talk about that. Before we get going, I want Read More
2 Stages of Development in B2B Brands
It’s tough for some companies to invest resources in building a great brand when they can instead spend money on making the next sale. And yet, if you ignore why you stand apart, you can be easily replaced. The question is not whether to brand, but rather how much, where and how? So let’s talk Read More
A Basic Guide To Using Zoom for Remote Meetings
Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of people are adjusting to a new way of working: all-remote, all the time. One big challenge to remote work is the loss of in-person meetings to work through issues, brainstorm new ideas, or quickly get everyone up-to-speed on a project. At Resound, much of our team Read More
4 Ways to Build Your Brand From the Inside Out
Your brand translates your values and gives you a stronger personality in the world. This involves both actions and words. To put it another way, your brand’s values turn nice thoughts into both actions and the words that show the values behind those actions. And where better to begin than to solidify your brand than Read More
The 3 Most Legitimate Objections to Branding
We routinely talk about the importance of branding. But how do we push this understanding deeper? Maybe even deep enough to make it practical and clear in your specific business? Understanding comes from allowing the biggest arguments against your position to land with full force, separating logic from emotion and then dealing with them in Read More
The Costs of Greatness
Building a great brand doesn’t happen by accident. It doesn’t come easily to anyone. It’s hard work and requires an almost inhumane level of commitment to values in service to a bigger “why.” Most people aren’t willing to do the work. That’s why so many brands fall flat. But for those of us who are Read More
