Chapter 11. How to brand and advertise your company effectively

  • How to create a brand

  • Colours and branding

  • Advertising

  • How to choose a tagline

  • How to place your adverts

  • Dealing with advertising agencies

 

‘Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.’

 
 --Stuart Chase (1888–1985), economist

Good branding is worth a fortune. Just think of the brand value of Coca Cola, Nike, Levi’s or a whole host of consumer products. Brand is the single most valuable thing these companies possess and it is literally worth billions to them. Service industries have, in general, been a lot less smart about the way they promote their brands. A few, such as McKinsey’s, have got some of the way there, but most fall far short of what can be achieved.

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