What are the three questions you should be asking about your brand?

What are the three questions you should be asking about your brand?

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Brand and brand strategy can feel elusive.

But this does not need to be the case. Actually, there should be very sharp truths underlying the components of your brand.

Here are three questions to ask about your brand:

  • Resonance: Does your brand promise resonate with your customers? Do your customers want the promise that you bring? Are you solving a problem that they’re motivated to solve ?
  • Ownable: Is your brand promise distinctive and ownable to your business? Is there something about your strengths that allow you, uniquely, to make and deliver on this promise?
  • Truth: Do you have the conviction and the will to deliver on your brand promise? And do you have the conviction and the will to continually improve your ability to make your promise ever more true?

Is your brand squishy and muted? Are you hiding?

Remember, brand is the most powerful tool there is for creating economic value. But, in order for it to do so, your brand promise must be customer resonate, ownable to you as a business, and 100% true.


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Elizabeth (Liz) Nix

Marketing & Creative Executive | Brand Strategist | Public Speaker

3 个月

Well stated! I appreciate that this begins with the customer. It can easily become the norm to sit in board rooms and meetings, and busy ourselves with the day-to-day walk of business. I find that it is truly a discipline to focus the strategy and brand promise on customer resonance, as they are the people who will be interested in purchasing the product. I will also add that if these three simple things are delivered well, and truly believed throughout the core and heart of the business, it can transform the marketing department from being perceived as a cost center to a profit driver!

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