Many start-ups get derailed because they don’t get their brand right. To avoid this fate, you need to develop a Minimum Viable Brand (MVB). […]
small business brand strategy
the book: Sticky Branding: 12.5 Principles to Stand Out, Attract Customers, and Grow an Incredible Brand – a very helpful book for small- and mid-sized businesses the brain: Jeremy Miller, brand builder, keynote speaker, and the President of Sticky Branding, a Toronto-based branding and business development consultancy. Jeremy wrote this book after having gone through […]
04.07.14
Building a Small Business Brand
Great brands don’t have to be big brands. In fact, one of my favorite examples of a great brand is a small, privately-held design and innovation consultancy (Bulldog Drummond.) Another is a 12-unit, $40 million fast casual restaurant chain (Tender Greens). Another is a small non-profit (Keep A Breast Foundation.) Each of these brands stands […]
“Great brands ignore trends” is one of the principles in my new book, What Great Brands Do, that has consistently been coming up in the interviews I’ve been doing about the book. It’s just so counter-intuitive. In fact, just last Friday, Jim Blasingame of The Small Business Advocate show, asked me about it in his radio […]