Start A Fire
It's hard to ignore an energized brand. You may have never used Uber's services, but I'm sure you've heard of the company. Brand energy is one of the most important differentiators. Start a fire in your brand to stand out.
Category: Innovation
If It Ain’t Broke, Break It!
The pace of change is accelerating in business. It's our new reality. Brands are shifting. Strategies are shifting. Industries are shifting. Embrace this reality. Sticky Brands do this by saying, "If it ain't broke, break it."
Simple Clarity: Clarity Differentiates Your Brand
Simple Clarity is the ability to describe your business and what makes it unique in ten words or less. This is deceptively hard, especially for an innovative, growing company. Simple, clear communication immediately differentiates your brand. It demonstrates your company is not only innovative, it's credible.
Selling Innovation in a Commoditized Market
Selling a new innovation or a new concept is hard, because clients are resistant. They don't get it, or they're not prepared to change. So they ply you with platitudes, "This looks amazing, but it's two years ahead of what we need." Or some other compliment veiled as a brush off. The issue is not one of innovation or understanding. This issue is branding. Positioning an innovation requires a different approach.
Apple Pay and Apple Watch Are Bigger Than You Think
Apple has a sticky brand because they redefine categories, not launch products. Other companies launch innovative products, but Apple stands heads and shoulders above their peers by continually redefining categories. Apple Pay and Apple Watch redefine the mobile payments and wearables categories.
What Would Apple Do?
Take a page from Apple's playbook and ask, "What would Apple do?" It's hard not to admire Apple's brand. They not only have brand loyalty, they have brand anticipation. Everyone wants to know what Apple will do next. Apply some of Apple's principles of branding to grow your brand.
David vs Goliath: How Trisura Beats The Big Companies
"If the big companies did everything right, there wouldn't be room for us," says Mike George, CEO of Trisura. Small and mid-sized companies, like Trisura, have an opportunity to compete and win against the giants of their industry. They create a David vs Goliath story by finding areas where the giants are lacking.
Primo Cards: Reshaping Traditional Markets With Technology
Many traditional business models are under duress. They are over saturated and driven on price. If you get caught in these forces the question is how will you respond. Will you get dragged down with the masses, or find ways to innovate and better serve your clients? Primo Cards has chosen the latter. They've embraced technology, and are using the internet and social media to rethink how a printing company can serve its customers.
Deighton Associates: Think Local, Serve Global
Small and mid-size companies can achieve a global impact with a niche strategy. Deighton uses their niche to sell beyond their backyard, and serve clients internationally. They serve a global market while delivering a personal, local experience.
Modern Engineering: BHAGs Drive Innovation
BHAGs drive performance. Modern Engineering is one of the oldest machine shops in British Columbia, but they are standing out with a big hairy audacious goal, a BHAG. The goal stretches Modern to try things beyond their reach, but it also focuses their team on what's important.
The Central Group: Innovate Beyond Your Products
Customers come for the products, but stay for the results. The Central Group has innovated beyond their products with sticky value-add customers. As Rick Eastwood, President of The Central Group explains, "We're not in the business of selling displays and packaging. We're here to help our clients get their products out the door."
Alpha Poly Packaging: Easy In, Impossible Out
Manufacturers grow their brands by innovating and staying a step ahead. Alpha Poly Packaging, a manufacturer of film and bag packaging, strategy can be described as "easy in, impossible out." Clients come for the products, but stay for services that help them run their business and deliver results. Alpha is growing a sticky brand by embracing both sides of the equation.
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