Branding

Employees have to “get” your brand message first

Nov 15, 2005

If employees don't understand and support your brand message, it's doubtful anyone else will either. They have to bring the brand message to life.

Competing with yourself: The Dow Corning Story

Jun 16, 2005

Dow Corning created a low-cost, web-based subsidiary to fend off competitors offering little or no technical support.

It’s time to update your brand plan

Jan 15, 2005

Here are a couple of things you could add to your New Year's resolutions list in order to start updating and strengthening your company’s brand management plan.

View from the brand summit is similar to the swamp

Jun 15, 2004

Branding is a daily struggle for large company practitioners just like it is for small company people.

Brand symbols becoming a dinosaur of another age

May 15, 2004

In the world of business-to-business marketing communications, the use of symbols to connote brand attributes is a lost art.

Negative brand images deserve the positive image treatment

Apr 15, 2004

Branding programs should put negative concerns at the top of the list of things to worry about.

BASF uses brand power to rise above commodity logjam

Mar 15, 2004

From second tier to world's biggest chemical company, that's the story of BASF.

The brand battlefield resides in customers’ minds

Jan 15, 2004

If you’re not fighting your battles on the right battlefield, then you’re not doing your job as a business-to-business marketer.

Even small companies can build big brands

Oct 27, 2003

How Tipton, PA-based New Pig Corporation became the market leader in spill and leak containment.

Create focused expectations of brands with ads

Sep 29, 2003

Don't miss the opportunity to create focused expectations for your brands with every ad

Leverage intangible assets for improved brand valuation

Sep 02, 2003

Its time to start looking at the value of your brand assets so you can better manage them

Let your personality determine your voice

Jul 07, 2003

Construction equipment giant Caterpillar lets its personality do the talking.

Here’s an advertising story you can take to your banker

Jun 09, 2003

How MeadWestvaco made an extra $126 million from an anonymous printing paper in four years.

Manage your brand for better career results

Mar 17, 2003

Manage your personal brand to enhance your career

The difference between product leader and industry leader

Oct 14, 2002

How Hobart turned its food equipment leadership into industry dominance

B-to-B advertising should be more than just a pretty face

May 07, 2001

Branding has to be more than skin-deep to create memorable, lasting impressions.

Absolut fortune: One liquor’s success story

Feb 12, 2001

If you can create preference for a colorless, tasteless, odorless liquid, you can certainly do it for any B2B product or service.

Creating preference for a brick

Nov 02, 1999

You can build brand power with something as mundane as a clay brick.

Branding still a mystery to business advertisers

May 08, 1995

Why is it that business-to-business marketing and advertising managers have such a hard time with the concept of brand image? Our consumer counterparts surely don't.