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Strategy

Defining Your Brand Strategy.

Creating a brand is more than picking a cool logo, tagline, and complementary colors for your packaging, website, and marketing touchpoints. Especially as more consumers are viewing brands as entities responsible for ethos and behaviors, you want your brand strategy to communicate vision, goals, culture, and operational behaviors that align with your target audience. To…

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How CPG Brands Can Connect With Gen Z?

  Consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands are trendsetters. They’re often among the first groups to pivot their marketing strategies and reach out to the latest generation of young, spendy consumers. While the Millennial market reigned supreme for a number of years, a new generation is taking hold in the marketing mainstream—the so-called Generation Z, a…

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Choosing the Right Brand or Product Name.

Whether you’re starting a brand, sub-brand, or product extension, its name matters. You want something that’s recognizable but is also unique. In some cases, such as Kleenex for tissues or the Magic Eraser for cleaning sponges, you can create a name so iconic that people use it to describe any product within that category—even if…

Strategy

8 Retail & Online Brand Growth Strategies

Most brands because their strategy isn’t built to win. The right brand strategies don’t just drive awareness; they drive performance, loyalty, and growth. Keep reading to learn how the world’s smartest brands build strategies that actually move markets.

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