How to Find Your Brand Voice

How to Find Your Brand Voice: Your brand voice is a refined extension of your brand's personality. While your personality is reflected in everything that you do, your brand voice is how you effectively communicate that personality verbally through your language. It is how you speak, and also how you don't speak to your audience...

How to Create The Perfect Brand Tagline

How to Create The Perfect Brand Tagline: Just do it. The ultimate driving machine. Think Different. A diamond is forever. Finger lickin’ good. You’re in good hands. I guarantee you’ve heard all of these famous brand taglines before, and it’s more than likely that you can name all of the brands that are connected to...

How to Communicate Your Brand’s Personality

How to Communicate Your Brand's Personality: A brand Personality is a set of human characteristics that are attributed to a brand. Applying consistent personality traits to your brand is a way to humanize it with characteristics so a specific consumer segment can relate to your brand. Just like how you can tell a lot about...

How to Define Your Target Audience

How to Define Your Target Audience: A target audience is defined by a specific group of consumers with similar traits such as age, gender, education, purchasing power, social class, location, goals, interests, consumption habits, and problems. Once a business has defined this group they can direct their marketing actions at these consumers to build brand...

How to Maintain Positive Brand Status

How to Maintain Positive Brand Status: I talk a lot about how your brand is your company's most valuable asset, and how the strategies you put into place will lay the foundation for your success. However, once a brand has been developed, and your strategy has been implemented, many companies still fail. The marketplace is...

How to Beat Your Competition With a Competitor Audit

How to Beat Your Competition: To maintain positive brand status and stay ahead of the competition you must learn how to search for and find your top competitors, how to analyze their strengths and weaknesses, and how to differentiate your brand so you stand out in the competitive marketplace. The best way to start this...

How to Define Your Brand Values

How to Define Your Brand Values: If you have been following along in this 4 part "Defining Your Brand" series, then so far you have completed 3 of the four steps of the Definitive Motivation brand principle. You have defined your brand purpose, which is why you exist and what your business stands for. You...

How to Define Your Brand Mission

How to Define Your Brand Mission: In the previous posts I helped you define your Brand Purpose and predict the future of your business by defining your Brand Vision. Now you will discover how you will create that future by defining your Brand Mission. First of all, let’s not confuse your brand’s vision with your...