Branding Fundamentals: Framework of Branding
By Mark Nelson
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Branding
Marketing
Brand Promise
Communication
Brand Management
Business
Brand Identity
Brand Persona
Brand Consistency
Brand Equity
About this ebook
How deeply have you thought about your brand? Is it intentional, or just an afterthought? What does each component—your logo, your website, your service, and even your culture—say to customers? Advanced branding means thinking about what distinguishes your company from the rest, and incorporating it into every single touchpoint of the business: design, messaging, marketing and PR, and company vision. Learn what branding really is, how it works, and how you can build and maintain a more competitive brand.
Mark Nelson
Mark Nelson (Hong Kong) is a resident shamanic practitioner at Shakti Healing Circle, one of the leading healing centers in Asia. He is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies three-year program and a member of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners. He teaches workshops, provides shamanic services to clients, and leads apprenticeship programs.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gives a good basic understanding of branding. Just like the name says "Branding Fundamentals," it shares basic and foundational insights on what branding is and how to approach it step by step. Would recommend it to anyone who is just starting to learn branding.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5it is a good and short introduction, I would recommend it for someone who just started to learn about branding
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Branding Fundamentals - Mark Nelson
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Table of Contents
Disclaimer
Introduction
1: Understanding Branding
2: Defining the Brand
3: Positioning the Brand
4: Expressing Brand identity
5: Communicating the Brand Internally
6. Communicating the Brand Externally
7.Measuring Brand Performance and Value
8.Conclusion
Introduction
- Creating and managing brands is one of the most important and challenging activities in all of marketing. A brand can be an enormously valuable asset for your company if it's done properly. In fact, for some companies, brands are the single most valuable asset the company owns.
In this course, I'll share with you a step-by-step process for creating a brand, linking that brand to your company's core values, and launching the brand into the marketplace to get it working for you. Whether you have existing brands, or you're starting from scratch to create a new one, this course features the tools and frameworks needed to build brand equity. Strong, effective brands give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace and help you weather the storms of market competition and other challenges.
Like marketing, branding is an exciting career field of its own, but it takes talent and dedication. Through the concepts I'll share with you in this course, you'll begin to develop the skills to create successful and authentic brands.
- Before you start, you should know that this is a fundamentals course on branding, including an end-to-end process and a set of tools to create a brand. To help you practice these tools, I'll use a case study. We'll focus on wrist watches, specifically one designed for families. You'll learn how to create a new brand in this category. The steps that you'll perform here will be the same you would use in any category. This course is not about graphic design, such as logos and packaging.
Nor is it about advertising and other marketing communications tools, which can be a part of the branding process. Branding strategy is closely linked to marketing strategy, so it's essential you have a good understanding of marketing principles, especially segmentation, targeting, and positioning before doing this course. If you need to get up to speed on these aspects of marketing, I encourage you to check out the Marketing Fundamentals course of mine.
Now as tempting as it may be, developing a new brand isn't always the right thing to do in certain business situations. I'll give you some guidelines on when you should and should not consider branding. If you're learning about branding as part of your job within a company, it's really important that you understand your company's policies on branding. This includes identity standards and the use of trademarks and logos. Be sure you're familiar with these policies before you apply any of the concepts in this course.
1: Understanding Branding
What is a brand?
- Are you a trustworthy person? Who says so? Okay, so you have friends and colleagues that say you're trustworthy, but why do these people say so? I'm willing to bet it's because you told them you were going to do something, and you did, over and over. You made, and kept, your promises. And because of that, you now have a