Sticky Idea

A sticky idea sets at the heart of all good brand and marketing strategies. It is the foundation of allows you to position your company, to tell a good story to create a brand culture that turns your customers into raving fans.

Unfortunately, the sticky idea is easily overlooked. It's almost seen as being too simple, yet power that holds is unmistakable. It is where most of your efforts need to go into developing your brand and marketing strategies.

Below are some articles on Sticky Ideas. I really do hope that they give you some good ideas on how to build your own brand and how to implement your own marketing strategy.

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What’s The One Thing That Differentiates You From Being Mediocre And Remarkable?

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Customers are unpredictable. If they were predictable you would not be able to differentiate yourself from your competition.  All you would need to do is refine your systems around the predictable outcomes and make sure you are the best.
Ironically many businesses do just this. They refine the internal systems so there is almost no flexibility [...]

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How To Simplify Your Brand and Marketing

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It is so easy to over-complicate marketing and is so easy to overlook the importance of branding. it's really simple to  define what a brand is but the hard part is implementing. let's begin with the short definition so were on the same page here:  

Your brand must communicate a simple, clear idea that differentiates you [...]

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Making Brand Based Thinking Work For You

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Brand-based thinking is simply a series of brand principles to help you structure your thinking around your brand. Here are the five principles that define how we think here at Raving Fans
1. Understanding!
How can you manage what you do not understand? You need to understand your brand; your brand culture; your product; your organisation; what a [...]

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Now This Is Real Marketing

March 17, 2010

I have always enjoyed Heineken. I have always enjoyed their advertising. But this clip below goes beyond advertising. This is the art of storytelling and community building. Lovely. Enjoy …

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Now This Is Real Marketing