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This blog provides practical information on brand research, strategy and positioning. It also covers brand equity measurement, brand architecture, brand extension and other brand management and marketing topics.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Brands Help Organizations Transcend Product Categories

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Have you heard of Smith-Corona? If you are my age or older, you have. If you are 25 or under, you may not have. They made typewriters, a pr...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

What Do Upscale Consumers Want?

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High quality including choice materials, fine craftsmanship and superior aesthetics Outstanding customer service including attentiveness, ...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Creating a Robust Brand Identity System

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When most marketers think of brand identity systems, they typically think of visual identities – the logo or wordmark, the logo lockups, th...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Brands and Storytelling

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Recently, I was drawn in again by a street person’s story. It is not the first time. If the story is good enough, it tugs on your heartstri...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – A Moral Message

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As with any discipline, branding can be used to help people and society or it can be used in a way that hurts them. How can branding be...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Branding and Memory

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Memory encoding and recall are key elements in creating brand associations. This becomes even more critical in today’s over stimulated ...
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Brands and Aesthetics

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Whether one considers Apple’s iPod, iPad or iPhone or Ty Nant’s bottled water or the Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic...
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Brad VanAuken is president and founder of BrandForward, Inc., a brand strategy consultancy with clients throughout the world. Previously, Brad was the vice president of marketing for Element K (now Skillsoft), a leading e-learning company and director of brand management and marketing for Hallmark Cards, Inc. During his tenure as Hallmark’s chief brand advocate, Hallmark rose to 4th in the EquiTrend national quality brand ranking and Hallmark received the Brand Management of the Year award.
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