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9 February 2012 0 Comments

Facilitating audience engagement and bonding: KLM’s ‘Meet and Seat’


Real audience engagement and bonding is a vital tool for brand success. I am constantly being fascinated by opportunities offered by social Media to brand. Social Media is an elastic rope; it keeps expanding based on the horizon of the brand custodians and communicators.  Those who see possibilities will keep experimenting while brand communicators with [...]

1 February 2012 0 Comments

Brand positioning: 5 pillars that help


Brand positioning in the market is vital to brand success and profitability. In the journey to stardom and brand engagement, brand positioning is a major factor. Positioning is based on identifying uniqueness and communicating such. Brand positioning is also considered as process of creating brand offers in such a manner that it occupies a distinctive [...]

7 January 2012 0 Comments

Africa National Brand Communication: is this what we want?


National branding is as essential as any other forms of branding. Any nation that ignores this does so at its own peril. America is not just a world leader by mouth; it has consciously raised the bar of positioning despites its multi-various challenges. Successful American leaderships, even though not at their best or perfect forms [...]

20 December 2011 1 Comment

Brand Communication: Creating awareness through SEO


Brand communication strategy in yesteryears mainly hinged on Newspaper and print Media adverts now. If brand did not have enough fund then, it could be a mirage to think of gaining any eyeball at all. The advent of internet, technology is changing the game plan. But now it is sheer foolishness  crying because our brands [...]

19 December 2011 0 Comments

Citizen Journalism: The other side of the divide


Citizen journalism in Nigeria or elsewhere is a slippery terrain. It can be compared to a two- edged sword: it has capacity to help and hurt at the same time. We now live in open universe where nothing is hidden anymore. The consciousness of this should help us to organize our brands’ lifestyle in a [...]

13 December 2011 0 Comments

Brand exposure: social or commercial opportunity route?


The dimension of changes we are witnessing in brand exposure strategy is becoming interesting. As we know, the power of brand indispensability is based on relevance, positioning and exposure. Several routes are now available in achieving this goal. There is an old way of doing stuff where all a brand needs to do is to [...]

13 December 2011 2 Comments

Brand marketing: Keeping with the changes.


Landscape of marketing is changing in a disruptive manner. Whoever thinks it will go back to the traditional practice needs a rethink. Marketing terrain will never remain the same. All we need to do is to understand and take advantages of the new phase we find ourselves. Today, it is no longer news; customers do [...]

5 December 2011 14 Comments

Brand Positioning: best ways to maximize 2012 opportunities


Those who understand the secret of the future know how to master the future before it arrives. They do not wait till early January before they start their New Year resolution. At the time many are still working on their resolutions, the wise brands have gone ahead through proper positioning of the brand for greater [...]

15 November 2011 1 Comment

Brand relevance: 7 ways to strengthen your position


Brand relevance speaks volume when we consider influence, significance, importance and bearing a brand has over a particular market. Every brand cherishes been recognized, positioned at the top of the market. But this is impossible without some sorts of trustworthy credentials that can provoke a high level of believability, reliability, authority and standing. Brand relevance [...]

8 August 2011 18 Comments

Brand Communication: How to make history happen


Two days ago, the world celebrated twenty years of real world wide world inauguration that led to web 2.0 rave. Tim Berners-Lee created the first web browser, World Wide Web and posted some stuff live on the internet. The introduction of World Wide Web has changed the way we all live today. I am just [...]