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How To Translate Your Company Purpose Into Slick Visual Branding

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Look at other companies in your field that you aspire to rival, and think carefully about how they describe themselves, then relate that to the imagery they use. Ideally, your visual branding should be broadly familiar, but just different enough to give you an edge over those other companies. WordPress themes health food company”).

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How Do You Build A Brand? Start by Asking What Drives Human Behavior

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As a starting point on the journey to build company or personal brands, it’s important to step back and think about the drivers of behavior. If I have learned one thing in the process of building brands for multinational corporations and my own company, it is that the key to success is simplicity. Five words.

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Top Tips for Handling a PR Crisis

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Despite what you may have heard, there is such a thing as bad publicity, and it can ruin your company if you’re not careful. David H Lasker is the founder and CEO of News Exposure , a digital content solutions company specializing in media research and monitoring. Top Tips For Handling A PR Crisis from News Exposure.

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Technology Makes Us Lazy Communicators

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In this post from last May by John Friedman , he wrote about a job where he traveled across North America to discover a company had lost the plot of what it was doing. I won’t spoil the story or post for you, but suffice it to say that the company had lost focus of what it was they were in the business of actually doing.

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How to Successfully Digitize Events During COVID-19

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It notes that Zoom has zoomed [sic] from serving approximately 10m customers a day at the beginning of the year, to 200m a day right now, and that’s not just for business: Responding to covid-19 has seen many people and companies realise that it had more to offer them than they had realised. Wouldn't you like to be in her kitchen?

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Creative Communications: Lessons from Health and Wellness Brands

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These communication approaches popup from healthcare companies, to athletic wear, to fitness apps. Since we’ve worked up an appetite, let’s consider nutrition companies. Lärabar, a snack bar company, has successfully positioned itself as a lifestyle brand. Before and after. These messages are tired and far from creative.

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Command Attention by Telling Your Company’s Story

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Every company, every organization, every person, needs to do a better job telling their story. That goes for agencies and companies, big brands and boutiques, nonprofits and associations — even government entities. and make the company itself the character. I’m often asked if storytelling is harder for B2B companies.

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