A Digital Designer Innovates in a Non-Digital Medium
Grant Marketing’s art director, Grant Penny, is also a successful artist based in Asheville, North Carolina. He was recently featured in Carolina Home + Garden magazine in an article titled “Whimsy Is Hard Work.”
Topics: B2B marketing agency, Brand Consultant, Brand strategist, Brand Ambassador, B2B Branding
Is Now the Time to Rebrand—and Why Do It?
Every company has a brand, whether they set out to or not. At its most basic form, a company launches their “brand” when they first open their doors and create an identity—the extent of which typically consists of a logo, letterhead, and signage.
Topics: Branding, brand development, brand message, brand development process, brand promise, Brand Consulting, brand development strategy, Brand Consultant, Brand strategist, Brand Strategy, rebrand
Why Your Sales Team Needs to Be Your Most Authentic Brand Advocate
Are your sales and marketing functions copacetic? Or are they more like two ships that, if you’re lucky, pass in the night? Aligning your company’s marketing and business development functions:
Topics: Branding, Industrial Branding, Brand Loyalty, Brand strategist, Brand Strategy, B2B Branding, rebrand
Preserving the Brand Perception and Preparing for the Transition
We’ve been talking a lot about branding lately, especially as it relates to family-owned industrial manufacturing businesses. Multi-generational companies, built over decades, possess brands that are the result of thoughtful planning—or by default, simply a reflection of their founders’ personalities.
Topics: brand development strategy, Brand Consultant, Brand strategist, Brand Strategy, B2B Branding, rebrand, family business, employee-owned
The B2B Brand Experience: Make it Personal and Practice Reciprocity
In today’s business environment, there is little to no distinction between a company and its brand. The two are so intertwined that a Weber Shandwick report found that “corporate reputation and brand reputation are now nearly indivisible.”
Topics: Brand Loyalty, Brand strategist, Brand Strategy, B2B Branding
Do You Understand Your Company’s Brand Essence?
Striving for balance in life leads to feeling centered: strong, even-keeled, and in control of your destiny. Achieving this in your personal life can be accomplished in a variety of ways—people do yoga, meditate, run, hike, travel—whatever serves as an enjoyable counterbalance to the demands of everyday life.
Topics: Branding, Brand Consulting, brand essence, Brand strategist
