Your brand is and should be unique. It should stand out from others in a similar business or service. What makes your brand so different? It's your unique promise and value that you provide to your customers and clients. But how do you communicate this to your potential network? Through branding. Like humans, brands have a character. Like us, they need to have a style, a dressing sense, and a style of communication to grab people's attention. In this book, we'll get into the depth of each of the brand assets from brand name, story, logo, colors, typography, tone of voice, imagery, iconography, illustrations to compiling them in a holy brand style guide. It'll be an exciting journey. If you're a brand strategist, marketer, brand agency team member, at a manager post, a business owner, or an entrepreneur looking to establish your business as a brand, this is for you. If you're a young design or business graduate struggling to understand the practical applications of your theory classes in Branding and Marketing, this is for you. If you're a 9-5 stuck employee at a stressful job and willing to set up your own business or brand but don't have the capital to invest in building your brand, this will help you construct it. In the last book, 'BYOB Building Your Own Brand', we talked about the first steps towards creating a brand strategy, value proposition statement, brand character, and the various types of brand logos. This book is a continuation of where we left in the last book. Although you can read it without going through the previous book, I would recommend you to read it too if you wish to gain a better foundation in brand building. Here we will understand what a particular brand asset is used for, how it needs to be created, where it should be used, and how to make it a successful brand asset that evokes a strong brand recall in the minds of your audience. All the chapters are supported by examples from brands all over the world. The last chapter focuses on compiling the valuable brand assets in the form of a style guide with guidelines, descriptions, information, standards, best practices, do's and don'ts, and instructions for anyone who will be involved in brand building exercises. A strong visual identity is the need for a modern brand to evolve in this digital era and a necessity for a legacy brand to continue growing business. Over 90% of businesses around the world today depend on highly aesthetical and meaningful visual communication. How do we achieve this? With all the visual and emotional clutter filling the digital space and no one really looking at your advertisements anymore? How do we attract people and hook them to your brand? We do it by providing them value. Value through an exclusive visual means of communication. Obviously, there's something particular about how your brand dresses up to perform in front of your audience. These accessories it wears are your brand's assets and, in this book, you'll discover how to make them.

This book is for anyone with a brand.It is a book about future-proofing your brand's identity. It will help you set up a long-term strategy to build Distinctive Assets, and tell you what you need to do to protect them.Do you want to get better at branding?You'll learn which strategies and actions work, as well as which ones don't, to help you take advantage of opportunities and avoid minefields.Building Distinctive Brand Assets is for anyone with a brand logo, font or colour scheme, and is essential reading for those who have wondered if (or have been told) it's time for a change. Readers will learn how to set up a long-term strategy to build a strong brand identity, and how to make use of knowledge, metrics and management systems in order to build and protect a brand's Distinctive Assets.Building Distinctive Brand Assets is divided into three sections that capture the processes involved in brand asset creation, implementation and ongoing management. The first section is focuses on strategy, and covers how Distinctive Assets are created and their role in a broader brand equity building. The second section covers measurement approaches, and how to use and interpret key metrics. The third section delves into the strengths and weaknesses of different types of assets and introduces the idea of a Distinctive Asset palette. This section also outlines how to set up a Distinctive Asset management system to provide an early warning system to identify potential threats before they evolve into major issues.

Trump University books are practical, straightforward primers on the basics of doing business the Trump way-successfully. Each book is written by a leading expert in the field and includes an inspiring Foreword by Trump himself. Key ideas throughout are illustrated by real-life examples from Trump and other senior executives in the Trump organization. Perfect for anyone who wants to get ahead in business, with or without the MBA, these streetwise books provide real-world business advice based on the one thing readers can't get in any business school-experience. In Trump University Branding 101, you'll learn how to: * Build a powerful brand that increases the sales and profits of any business * Launch your entrepreneurial brand * Manage the differences between service branding and product branding * Develop a brand for your real estate investments * Make your brand far more than just a name or logo * Develop clear positioning and brand strategy * Successfully communicate your brand * Choose an appropriate brand name and logo * Reinvigorate a struggling brand * Use guerrilla branding for your small business * Build your own personal brand for career development * Keep your brand image consistent * Grow your brand over time * Use your brand to increase the overall value of your business

"Aaker on Branding" presents in a compact form the twenty essential principles of branding that will lead to the creation of strong brands. Culled from the six David Aaker brand books and related publications, these principles provide the broad understanding of brands, brand strategy, brand portfolios, and brand building that all business, marketing, and brand strategists should know. "Aaker on Branding" is a source for how you create and maintain strong brands and synergetic brand portfolios. It provides a checklist of strategies, perspectives, tools, and concepts that represents not only what you should know but also what action options should be on the table. When followed, these principles will lead to strong, enduring brands that both support business strategies going forward and create coherent and effective brand families. Those now interested in and involved with branding are faced with information overload, not only from the Aaker books but from others as well. It is hard to know what to read and which elements to adapt. There are a lot of good ideas out there but also some that are inferior, need updating, or are subject to being misinterpreted and misapplied. And there are some ideas that, while plausible, are simply wrong if not dangerous especially if taken literally. "Aaker on Branding"offers a sense of topic priorities and a roadmap to David Aaker's books, thinking, and contributions. As it structures the larger literature of the brand field, it also advances the theory of branding and the practice of brand management and, by extension, the practice of business management.

You already have the resources you need to build a powerhouse brand.If you believe you lack the money, people, time, or ideas to create a thriving brand, think again. In fact, you already have FIVE powerful marketing resources you can use right now to get big-brand results at low cost ... or no cost at all.Step One: Shift your mindset.International branding expert Brenda Bence has created the definitive guide to branding on a tight budget. After years as a mega-brander working across four continents and 50 countries for deep-pocketed consumer giants like Procter & Gamble and Bristol-Myers Squibb, she left the corporate world to start her own business. From scratch — and with almost empty pockets — Brenda used inventive, low-cost methods to build her own international brand that now serves clients in 25 countries with offices in the U.S. and Asia.Based on Brenda's successful low-cost branding workshops that receive rave reviews around the globe, Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank is a treasure chest of tips, tools, andtechniques to help SMEs and solo-preneurs achieve similar results at minimal expense.You will:* Learn to leverage five existing assets to create a robust brand marketing plan* Craft a unique and compelling brand positioning using six proven elements* Dispel widely-held branding myths that could be holding you back from success* Apply lessons from dozens of real-world case studies from a variety of businesses* Create a permanent "marketing mindset" for you and your team

Ditch traditional corporate branding to create a powerful, recognizable brand Brand Against the Machine offers proven and actionable steps for companies and entrepreneurs to increase their brand visibility and credibility, and to create an indispensable brand that consumers can relate to, thus becoming life-long customers. Discover the aspirational currency that makes your brand one that people want to be or want to be friends with. Learn how to be real with your audience and make strategic associations to establish credibility. Brand Against the Machine will help you stand out, get noticed, and be remembered. Brand Against the Machine is the blueprint for how to market your brand to attract better clients and stand out from the clutter that is traditional corporate branding and marketing. Instant Positioning Method: How to instantly stand out from the crowd and position yourself as a resource, not just another service provider The 20/60/20 Rule: Why it's important to take a stand and why it's okay to have haters—because it creates a stronger bond with those who love you Ditch your traditional corporate branding and marketing, and exchange it for something memorable. Your customers will thank you for it.