5. What does it mean to build a brand?
Building a brand is a disciplined process where you commit to
investing in awareness and extend customer loyalty. It requires a
mandate from the top and readiness to invest in the future.
Branding is about seizing every opportunity to express why
people should choose one brand over another. A desire to lead,
outpace the competition, and give our teams the best tools to
reach customers.
22. When do you start this process?
NEW COMPANY/
PRODUCT
NAME CHANGE
CREATE AN
INTEGRATED
SYSTEM
REVITALIZE A
BRAND
REVITALIZE A
BRAND IDENTITY
WHEN COMPANIES
MERGE
23. Clarify vision,
strategies, goals
and values.
CONDUCTING
RESEARCH
Customer insights
Market research
Usability testing
Marketing audit
Competitive audit
Language audit
Readout
CLARIFYING
STRATEGY
Narrowing the focus
Positioning
Brand brief
Naming
Renaming
DESIGNING
IDENTITY
Logotype & signature
Look and feel
Color
Typography
Sound
Animation
Trial applications
Presentation
CREATING
TOUCHPOINTS
Website
Vehicles
Collateral
Signage
Product design
Packaging
Advertising
Environments
MANAGING
ASSETS
Building brand champions
Brand books
Standards and guidelines
Standards content
Online branding tools
Reproduction files
Resourcing
Measuring and reporting
1 2 3 4 5
Process for Creating a Brand
Synthesize
learnings, develop
a POV, create a
brief.
Visualize the future,
brainstorm big
ideas, and align.
Finalize identity,
design programs,
apply architecture.
Share broadly,
launch, manage
and nurture.
37. What is branding due
diligence?
It’s a deep analysis of legal, industry, competitive,
operational and product brand risks that will affect
your ability to build a successful brand set it up for
advantageous differentiation.
38. legal:
Read more: http://joannalord.com/what-is-branding-due-diligence-why-should-you-care/
Have you sat down with legal and talked through the legal risks, concerns, opportunities? This can
include trademarks of slogans, imagery, verbiage, etc. Is everything registered that needs to be?
industry:
competitive:
operational:
product:
Have you sat down with your product and business development teams to understand industry
trends, concerns, opportunities?
Have you sat down and truly understood your competitor brands, do you understand what arena
they have won, are playing in, are entering?
Have you sat down and mapped out how this brand will be managed, what internal risks, concerns,
opportunities exist?
Have you sat down and documented the proprietary product and feature arenas you want to own?
Understood the risks and opportunities that exist?
69. What does it mean to invest in brand?
assets
20%
vehicles
20%
distribution
50%
management
10%
assets
25%
vehicles
25%
distribution
25%
management
25%
assets
20%
vehicles
35%
distribution
35%
management
10%
assets
30%
vehicles
30%
distribution
30%
management
10%
startup/early mid-stage/growth
enterprise personal
74. Awareness Strength Loyalty Sentiment Influence Share Engagement
How do you measure brand?
New prospects
Impressions
Traffic
Links
User data
Usage data
CTRs
Revenue lift
Increased
intent
Average order
size
Visitor recency
Customer
recency
Depth of visit
Return rates
NPS
Social
sentiment
RAF lift
IAF lift
Ambassador
program
signups
Partner
inquiries
Share of
search
Press
mentions
Social signals
Community
size
On-site actions
80. they don’t define it.
they don’t do their diligence.
they don’t integrate it.
they don’t invest.
they don’t measure.
which builds skeptics…
and kills innovation.
81. they don’t define it.
they don’t do their diligence.
they don’t integrate it.
they don’t invest.
they don’t measure.
which builds skeptics…
and kills innovation.