Journal
An honest opinion.
Brand Naming
Five Tips for your next Naming Project
TalkTalk have launched FibreNation – a company to help build a new broadband network for Britain. And we worked with them to name and brand the new organisation.
Brand Strategy, Digital Channels
The Importance of the Customer Journey
Relax. This isn't an in-depth look at how to create a digital strategy for your business. Great Guns, no. We both don't have the time.
Good to know, Brand Strategy, Environments
Tips on Working Internationally
When we started, our first ambition was to open an office in London. It’s an inconvenient truth that we needed to have an office there in order to be taken seriously by clients. (Thankfully, I think it’s beginning to change now).
Good to know
Good Advice on Embedding Sustainability
My recent ramblings on good branding, featuring our client Interface, got me thinking about a topic there's no escaping. The environment. How, as businesses, can we do our bit? How can we embed sustainable practices and behaviours in our organisations?
Digital Channels
Setting your Digital Goals
The challenge when looking at digital is that it is seductive to fall for the lure of the big numbers. There is comfort in big numbers, especially if it comes at a low price.
Brand Insight, Brand Strategy
The Importance of Expertise
I’ve been asked to prepare a presentation on how Good has come to appreciate and sell the value of design. When I sat down to think about this journey, it was hard to plot how we got to where we are.
Brand Strategy
How to make people love your brand
Building that special something with your audience is hard, but not impossible. Here’s three tips to help build the love and get the juices flowing.
Brand Strategy, Digital Channels
Go Beyond Digital Transformation to Digital Maturity
Digital Maturity is a term to describe how developed a brand or business is within the digital environment. It’s important because the most digitally mature brands communicate best with today’s digital-first customers.
Brand Strategy
Good advice on Good branding
So far in this series on what we feel constitutes Good branding, I’ve talked about Filson and its reach with the far-flung members of its family. And, I’ve waxed lyrical about Nike’s discipline in using brand to drive decisions where others wouldn’t.
Brand Creation & Evolution
How to build a brand: Start with words
From time to time we face an interesting moment during that first client presentation when we’re introducing a new brand. We’ll take them through values and positioning matrices. Through the insight we’ve gleaned to give the brand the best possible start.
Content Delivery
Gated Content- To gate or not to gate?
Gated content is one of those terms used by marketers rather than real people. Marketers see it as a lead generator, a transaction of information for your details by filling out a form and only then can you download that sweet, sweet PDF.
Brand Strategy
More Good Branding
I recently wrote a post on the definition of good branding, where I used a young Filson store assistant in Portland as a great example of how good branding can positively influence behaviour in both staff and customers.