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Brand Identity - Corporate Identity and Brand Value

Filed under: Brands + Marketing — admin at 7:36 am on Sunday, January 10, 2010

Companies work hard building the strength of their brands - it is critical to the ongoing brand management process to have meaningful and actionable data-driven measures of these efforts.

Building a brand, cultivating its strengths, pruning its weaknesses, and making it more valuable to its owners is the bottom line job of marketing. Everything marketing does should ultimately work in concert to make a firm’s brands more valuable. There are many different tactics and strategies that go into strengthening a brand name: advertising, promotions, public relations, and research and development, to name a few. While companies use these and many other methods to strengthen their brands’ positions in increasingly competitive markets, how can they measure the return on this work? More precisely, how can a company determine the worth of one, or any its brands?

Putting the brand to a true test, the company can better judge how much that brand is worth and how much opportunity for improvement might exist.

While the brand strategy defines the message and mission of the brand, which may be a company, product or service, and how it should be perceived, the brand identity translates the strategic vision into a consistent image. A tangible concept that can be accessed through the brand name, the corporate identity and the verbal positioning.

Transported by an outstanding corporate design, an integrated brand identity system enables companies and their products to project their level of quality, reliability and value in the market in a very influential way.

A great brand identity company is a good idea to use because they can work with companies as a full-service agency, on a per project basis, or offers its graphic designers for interim management contracts at their locations abroad. The one-stop consultant can direct the entire brand identity process from strategy, concept, design, implementation to management. Agency services in the field of market identity include competencies such as:

• Brand identity system: directing the entire process from brand positioning, brand personality & associations, brand name to brand logo

• New corporate identity: strategic development and creative design of international corporate images

• Re-branding and re-design of outdated identities, brands and product packages

• Development and implementation of visual identities, brands, logos, iconic labels, ci design manuals, etc.

• Digital corporate identity: transforming static identities to dynamic new media brands

• Global corporate identity/brand management system: from consulting to digital solutions

Scott White is President of Brand Identity Guru a leading Corporate Branding and Branding Research firm in Boston, MA.

Brand Identity Guru specializes in creating corporate and product brands that increase sales, market share, customer loyalty, and brand valuation.

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Over the course of his 15-year branding career, Scott White has worked in a wide variety of industries: high-tech, manufacturing, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, banking, restaurants, fashion, healthcare, Internet, retail, and service businesses, as well as numerous non-profit organizations.

Brand Identity Guru clients include: Sun Life Financial, Coca Cola, HP, Sun, Nordstrom, American Federal Mortgage, Franklin Sports and many others, including numerous emerging growth companies.

How to Pick up Voice over Jobs

Filed under: Brands + Marketing, Money Making, PR — admin at 6:52 am on Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Voice-over Jobs are quickly increasing as technology advances Voiceover jobs are sometimes done by skilled actors.

There’s lots of voice-over work out there for brand new voices waiting to be discovered. Initial, let’s look at the different narration jobs that are on the market out there:
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  • Dubbing Voice-over jobs - These jobs are obtainable when foreign films are dubbed into English, particularly for DVD releases. Since foreign movies still get a restricted release in America, this is not a huge market. If you’re a foreign actor making an attempt to create it in America, booking a dubbing gig in your 1st language will be a great manner to pay the bills whereas you’re employed on speech and accent reduction classes.

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This tip could help you to find out some attention-grabbing techniques to induce some voice over jobs

  • Involve your friends and family. Just because the youngsters are home from faculty and your home is crowded with guests, it will not mean that you will not be in a position to urge some quiet time for your voiceovers. This is the right opportunity to point out your friends and family what you have been up to with all of your voice over coaching and fancy equipment! Teach them how the set-up works, and put the producer’s hat on for a while. Get amusing or two out of recording their sample voiceovers and enjoying them back. Possibilities are they can support your arduous work even more currently that they see how troublesome it is. Later, they will understand after you say you would like to travel to “work,” and just walk down to the basement!

Social Media: What Can it Do for Me?

Filed under: Brands + Marketing, Money Making — admin at 11:37 am on Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Before we tell you about social media and what it can do for you, we should tell you a little about social media on the Internet. It all started with simple live chat and community chat rooms. It gradually expanded into full-fledged scheduled activity on websites such as FaceBook, Twitter and MySpace– websites that were set up primarily as platforms for individuals to hang out and connect with one another. Online communities in which birds of a feather quickly began flocking together virtually mushroomed overnight. Today, there are millions of social media websites also known as social networking websites or Web 2.0 websites that are entirely devoted to even the most esoteric and remote hobbies, disciplines and professions.

If you are profiled on SMO websites for business professionals such as Jig Saw, Spoke, Linked In, Zoom Info, Tribe, Plaxo, Ryze or any one of a number of niche sites dedicated to your industry segment or business, you will notice the difference it will make to your productivity and profitability in less time than you think.

SMO consulting firms can help you achieve most if not all the objectives we have outlined here:

• Receive highly targeted and pre-qualified site visitors Increase your website traffic through a strategy based on managed links and optimized landing pages
• Generate valuable back links for your website, which will help your Google page rank and dramatically facilitate your front page positioning on the major search engines
• Leverage your keyword rich and search optimized business profiles on scores of business networking websites to display in the results of search engines
• Harness the power of social media optimization to enhance your brand equity and create a unique online corporate identity