Brand values give you confidence and set you up to know how to move your company forward with conviction — like there’s a spine of steel going through your company. How do they do this? By showing you what you stand for and holding you accountable to it. And with the right process and commitment, Read More
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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
Develop Your B2B Brand Personality Traits in 5 Days
Differentiating yourself in the market is a process, much like a high school grad going to college to find himself. Luckily, you’re a business, not an Adventure Education major (yeah, that’s a thing), and we don’t need a year, months or even weeks to get to the bottom of this. Let’s talk about how we 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
Measure Conversions in Content Strategy with Email
How do you measure content strategy? Mike talked about how to think about content strategy, setting the stage for this conversation. So do you want to build trust, or are transactions more important now? Let’s talk about the different ways to measure those two ways of thinking about content strategy. Can They Trust You? Let Read More
2 Practical Measures for B2B Brand Effectiveness
It’s hard to measure brand. But that doesn’t mean it’s not important. As practical people, we know better. At Resound, we’ve worked with some pretty tough, focused brands who don’t like to waste money. So it made sense to us when we saw branding elder statesman Marty Neumeier describe his brand ladder. He insists — 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
7 Steps to Building Your Brand Before You Ever Make a Logo
You buy values with action, not words. You don’t own values just because you put them on your wall or think they’re a nice idea. You own them when they work. So let’s learn how to put your values to work every day and build your brand. Your brand’s values work in your company before Read More
