Where does your brand play? How does it win? These are two important of the most important questions in defining your brand strategy. Position your brand to win.
Finding the Words That Stick: Make a Brand Checklist
Nothing will accelerate your brand more than the ability to describe it in 10 words or less, Simple Clarity. Find the words that stick. Make your brand easier to find, easier to refer, and more desirable with a Brand Checklist.
3T’s of Sales Performance: Territory, Timing, and Talent
Sales performance is predicated on three variables: Territory, Timing, and Talent. Their impact on your organization is in that order, but the number one predictor of sales performance is the territory.
Developing Influencers: Octopus Products Focuses On Designers
Many industries have a hierarchy, and at the top are the influencers. Octopus Products focuses on their influencers, the designers, to drive sales and grow their brand.
Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither are sticky brands. Jim Gilbert's Wheels and Deals is a 20 year overnight success. They've grown into the largest independent used car dealer in New Brunswick, and one of the largest in Eastern Canada. And their customers love them!
No one ever said business has to be fair. Tilt the odds in your favor. Choose a playing field or a niche where you're guaranteed to win. Every company that grows a sticky brand makes strategic choices of where they will play, how they will win, and how they will tip the odds in their favor.
Marketers have an annoying habit of converting real functionality into marketing hype. The financial services sector is particularly guilty of this, but First Affiliated is working hard to defend the Multi-Family Office category. Ward off the marketers that are trying to piggyback on your success. Promote the category first and your brand second
Introducing a new concept in an established market can be an uphill battle, especially for mid-market companies like Cardinal Couriers. The service might be amazing, but it takes time to educate your customers and change their behaviors. Paradigm shifts happen one customer at a time.
When you get your positioning right your sales funnel accelerates. Quarry Integrated Marketing has their positioning dialed. It's clear and concise, and it allows their clients to self-select if they're a fit. It makes their brand more findable, referable, memorable and desirable.
Describe your products simply, succinctly and in the language of your customers. Speaking in the language of your customers will make your brand more findable, referable, memorable and desirable.
National Logistics services: The Cost Of Repositioning
Repositioning a business can be one of the most costly and painful transitions a company go through. National Logistics Services (NLS) went through 18 months of sales purgatory when it repositioned from a general logistics provider to experts in fashion and footwear. Today NLS has a sticky brand, but it was a challenging journey. Peter Reaume, CEO of NLS explains, "It was one of the scariest thing I've ever done. We knew we had to specialize, but the transition was hard."
Fruitland Manufacturing: Brand Loyalty – Be The Industry Standard
Brand loyalty is the hallmark of a sticky brand. Anyone can sell a product or service once, but to have your customers come back again-and-again is a different story. Loyalty is earned.
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