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Why a Branding Strategy Resource?

At The Blake Project we help organizations achieve brand insistence, using proven brand strategy techniques to create robust brands that build and sustain trust. Branding Strategy Insider is the global thought leader in brand strategy and brand education and is an extension of our efforts to help marketing oriented leaders and professionals build tangible brand equity. Through thought pieces from some of the world’s leading brand thinkers we strive to promote debate and conversation about the value and role of brand in today’s businesses, offer a 360-degree perspective of the rapidly evolving discipline of brand strategy, and advance the discipline of brand management.

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Brand Strategy October 20th, 2017

9 Strategies For Manipulating Brand Benefits

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9 Strategies For Manipulating Brand Benefits

Knowing how customers make buying decisions (and how they judge the relative value of one brand over another) is important because it provides insights into the different value-enhancement strategies marketers can use to enhance the brand’s value and strengthen brand admiration.

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Brand Storytelling October 19th, 2017

How Stereotypes Weaken Brands

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How Stereotypes Weaken Brands

Stereotypes make everything about storytelling easier.

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Brand Storytelling October 16th, 2017

7 Ways To Use Story To Inspire Brand Change

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7 Ways To Use Story To Inspire Brand Change

At some stage, many marketers will be called upon to explain why a brand change is needed. Here’s how to frame the business case as a story, using a combination of learnings from this article on the uptake of slow ideas and Freytag’s Pyramid.

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Brand Growth October 13th, 2017

Brands Beware Of Adjacency As A Growth Strategy

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 Brands Beware Of Adjacency As A Growth Strategy

“What adjacencies should we enter?” Over the last decade, this question has become synonymous with asking, “How should we grow?” in almost every major company around the world.

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Business to Business (B2B) October 12th, 2017

How B2B Brands Can Map Marketing Strategy

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How B2B Brands Can Map Marketing Strategy

Back in May, Emmanuel Probst shared that brand growth requires a full-funnel approach. While this is true for all brands, it becomes especially critical in B2B, where purchase cycles are usually much longer and involve multiple people with different responsibilities around the final purchase decision.

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“Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.” ~ Frank Tyger

If you find our thought pieces on brand strategy and brand management insightful and would like a deeper understanding for yourself, your marketing teams or leadership teams we can develop a tailored learning engagement for you.

Brand Education is a core competency of The Blake Project, the brand consultancy behind Branding Strategy Insider. As practitioners and educators we deliver interactive brand education workshops and keynote speeches designed to align individuals and organizations on essential concepts in brand management and empower them to release the full potential of their brands.

Additionally, we host a unique competitive-learning event annually: The Un-Conference: 360 Degrees of Brand Strategy for a Changing World featuring Brandingo: The Brand Management Safari Game.

For organizations seeking to transform and mobilize their employees around the brand we custom design and develop brand academies / brand centers of excellence which include live training and distance learning powered by i-STORY, our proprietary learning technology.

Abbott, Air France/KLM, Bayer, Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, Red Lobster et al), GE, GlaxoSmithKlein, Kawasaki, OgilvyRed, Monsanto, Unilever, U.S. Army and Wyndham Worldwide are some of the organizations that have turned to The Blake Project for help in meeting learning objectives.

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” ~ Peter Drucker