Branding folk talk about feelings but not many understand why they are so important in the context of brand strategy. Neuroscience has helped brand marketers explain this with greater scientific rigour.
Wavelength’s Darren Coleman was recently asked to comment on how brands can explore experiential campaigns by The Marketer Magazine.
Wavelength’s Darren Coleman was recently asked to comment on how brands can inspire loyalty in the digital age by The Marketer Magazine.
The great management scholar Peter Drucker wrote a half century ago, “A customer rarely buys what a company thinks it is selling him.” What Drucker meant was that customers aren’t buying products but rather are just trying to get jobs done in their lives, and products or more frequently brands help them to do this.
Values are important because they influence beliefs. Beliefs are important because they influence our behaviour. Whether you like it or not branding tries to influence behaviour – buy more, recommend more, go somewhere, etc. The list goes on. So in that respect branding is potentially something of a dark art.
Branding is an overused, misused and even abused management term. People think brand is a quick design fix for many management ills. It’s not.
Don’t forget, a brand is far more than a logo. This is a well-worn branding management classic but worth repeating nonetheless.
For some time we’ve been keeping a secret at Wavelength. His name is Wavey. He’s the branding brains behind most of our strategy work.
Persuading the CEO, CFO and sometimes even the CMO to invest in their brands can be a tough ticket. Winning over sceptical sales teams isn’t far behind. Sound familiar? This post provides 10 practical tips that will help turn sales sceptics into brand believers. Amen to that.