Sooner or later (sooner is much better), companies face the vital need to manage their Brand Architecture: the relative relationship between corporate, franchise and product/service brands. Brand Architecture could be a long story in and of itself (it occupies a chapter in my book, Identity Crisis). Suffice it to say […] keep reading
How to brand a disease or medical condition
Branding a medical condition? Isn’t that the Devil’s work? Isn’t it just one more way that the pharma, biotech and device industries fool people into spending more money on their products by inventing fictional conditions? Let me tell you why this is nonsense. We’ve written in the past about disease […] keep reading
5 ways service branding differs from product branding
Many services make big mistakes when they attempt to brand themselves, especially when they try to impose product-branding protocols on their identities. We’ve written in the past about How to think about branding healthcare services. While the branding process is the same—discovery insights about customers and completion, brand strategy development, […] keep reading
Personal Branding – ugly advice you can beautify
I’ve gotten many requests to speak about personal branding lately as I routinely lecture to university and grad students. As part of my due diligence, I researched the prevailing wisdom on the web and discovered some horribly misleading advice that bears amending. Whether you are, or want to become, a […] keep reading
What is healthcare branding?–Three essential differences from consumer goods branding
Why is it necessary to distinguish healthcare branding from branding executed on the part of consumer goods and services? Is it merely a category distinction, or is there really a fundamental difference between two models of applied research, strategy and actualization? And if the answer is the latter, then what […] keep reading
Why branding’s worst enemy may be advertising
“Let’s just get the ad concept right, then we’ll add the branding to it.” “We’ll write the tag lines after the ad concepts are done.” “Branding is more of a collective, long-term goal; advertising is for the here and now.” These are verbatim quotes from ad agencies with which I […] keep reading