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Over the years of studying brands and helping companies to build brands, I have come to understand the role Public Relations play in introducing new brands. Most brands fail to command attention and market equity because they were introduced into the market place with advertising instead of Public Relations. Do you ever imagine putting a [...]

Many times brand custodians are concerned about pushing their products to the target market. Many assume that just creating a service is the end of it and people will rush in to purchase their services. This assumption is often based on the fact that the new service is a one- in- town bullet proofed idea. [...]

We must realize that building a brand in today’s market is far different from what it used to be. When we assume that the major way of building brand is through the marketing gimmicks, we are making the greatest mistake of the highest order. It does not work that way anymore. When a brand is [...]

This twenty six year old late upcoming Hip Hop artiste was laid to rest on Friday 30th April, 2010. He was such a promising young man with a bright future anyone can think of.He had gone through stuff, his life was a rise from grass to grace. He was favoured also by the creator of [...]

Today we have so much about personal branding with regards tos elf promotion. The noise level is so high that people keep saying image is everything or keep faking it till you get it. As much has I acknowledged that these are important, building on image, will not help much if there is no consistent [...]

As we approach the weekend, many will say thank God is Friday while few will embrace the opportunity to work harder on their own brand. The truth is that your personal branding is what lives with you for the rest of your life after you have worked on your 24/7 paid job. Also given what [...]

This will be the last part of the two previous posts. Google and other search engines have turned many into product, service researchers while at the confine of their rooms or offices. Today’s customers are no longer satisfied with information provided by brand advertisers or traditional media. They really want to see things as it. [...]

Time is changing gradually. Knowledge too is spreading like wildfire. What used to be politically correct few years ago are being reviewed. I was just considering these two words as they relate to professional usage recently and I discovered that many brand drivers may be breaking the thin line between the two. Reputation is what [...]

Sometimes we can be sincerely wrong because we do not take enough time to study how something works. Even though we put enough energy into it, the fact remains that our efforts can still be in disarray. Or what is the need for speed when destination is not properly determined and mapped out before one [...]

There is need to measure the competitive advantage, impacts a personal brand has over its niche like other forms of brands. Like other experts noted, to gain substantive advantage and value over others, manipulations, gimmicks, over bloated image laundering are counter productive to any personal brand equity building. As much as I agree that there [...]