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BRAND STRATEGY EXPERT ARTICLES


Brand, culture, and you
It stands to reason that if your team get your brand, your customers will too. But, if your team don’t really understand what’s at the...
Oct 3, 20223 min read


Finding the right customer
“You can’t please all of the people all of the time”[1] so said John Lydgate, a Benedictine Monk back in the 14th century. To which I...
Oct 3, 20224 min read


The birth of brand
On a trip to your local supermarket, you’ll find as many as 45,000[1] products in store, and a visit to amazon.com will provide you with...
Jul 12, 20223 min read


This way up. How to value a brand.
Shipping containers. Very clever. At the last count there’s over 20 million1of them circulating around the world, and what makes them...
May 16, 20224 min read


A month on, and a chance to act
I wanted to share with you an opportunity to support the medical community in Ukraine. I am sure, like me, you have seen distressing...
Mar 24, 20222 min read


This book grows brands
Last week my publisher called to say What’s Your Point? was their biggest selling book on Amazon in February with sales up 25% on last...
Mar 8, 20223 min read


In Brand We Trust
Trust is in short supply these days, so it struck me as interesting that the recently published Edelman Trust Barometer told us that the...
Jan 10, 20223 min read


Hold that elevator pitch!!
The elevator pitch, so the story goes, came about because the only time you got a chance to see the boss or pitch to a key customer was...
Jan 4, 20223 min read


How colour can influence the success of a logo
In this final blog in our series on logos we are looking at the role of colour and how it can add or take away from the effectiveness of...
Nov 12, 20213 min read


Lorna and the launch of Cafedirect
As Cafédirect celebrates its 30th birthday, I wanted to share a personal story about Lorna Young, a remarkable woman I had the privilege...
Oct 4, 20214 min read


How to build the perfect logo
In my last blog, we looked at what makes a logo a good logo, and here we are going to go through the options you have in developing your...
Sep 27, 20213 min read


What makes a good logo?
They say a picture paints a thousand words, and when it comes to creating a logo it’s important those thousand words are telling the...
Sep 6, 20213 min read


Brand name - what role does yours play?
In this second in our series on I’m going to introduce a framework that will help you think about the role you want your brand name to...
Jul 9, 20214 min read


Brand name - an open door to your business.
I always think of the brand as a big open door into your business. And the role of a brand name is to make that door as wide as possible...
Jun 25, 20214 min read


New Workshop Series: Every Brand Needs a Point!
Every brand needs a point, a sharp definition of its purpose that will stick in people's minds and these workshops will help you discover yo
May 6, 20213 min read
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