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HOW TO BUILD & MANAGE YOUR BRAND
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BRAND
MANAGEMENT
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INTRODUCTIONS
Angie Schneider
Managing Director
Barnaby Dorfman,
Co-Founder, Foodista
& IFBC Host
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AGENDA
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Brand management CONCEPTS
• How to build and manage your brand
Brand management EXECUTION
• Tech resources
• Time management resources
• How to align your team
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REAL-TIME BRAND BUILDING
EXPERIMENT
How many Instagram followers can we
add during this session?!
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WHAT IS BRAND MANAGEMENT?
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When it comes to brand
management,
reputation is not an
isolated factor.
The key to reputation
management is mindful
actions and genuine
communications.
Act in ways consistent with
your brand, heritage,
experience and values.
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BUILD YOUR BRAND
Define your brand. Who are you and what
do you stand for?
Build a brand framework
• Guiding Principles
• Defining Qualities
• Priorities
Use these as the filter by which you make
every choice.
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BRAND COMMUNICATIONS
PURPOSE
Identify your purpose and values
Start by looking at your values and attributes to identify
opportunities that will support your overall purpose and
mission.
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BRAND COMMUNICATIONS
PLATFORM
A unique point of view
• What is your unique point of view?
• How does your POV line up against others in the industry?
• Where do you fall on important topics/issues?
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BRAND COMMUNICATIONS
PROGRAM
A scalable program that reaches multiple audiences
• What are your programmatic choices?
Do you review restaurants, products
or recipes? What are your guidelines
about working with companies? Do
you accept freebies? What are your
policies around that?
• What would make you change
your current programming?
Deciding in advance what
factors you will and will not
consider can make choices
easier down the road.
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MANAGE YOUR BRAND
Identify ALL the factors that are
included in managing your
brand:
• Content you produce
• Advertisers/sponsorship
approach
• Events you attend, etc.
• Your social media
engagement strategy
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MANAGE YOUR BRAND
Define which factors you can control
and which factors you cannot control
– CAN control: create plans for proactive
management, including content calendars,
speaking opportunities, partnerships, etc.
– CANNOT control: build contingency plans
for reactive response, including industry
shifts, FCC rulings, technology platform
changes, etc.
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MANAGE YOUR BRAND
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Stakeholder/network
mapping Industry mapping Connection mapping
Who cares about you?
Who do you care about?
How are you
similar/different?
What is going on in
food?
How does it impact
you?
What is your opinion
on it?
How do these
issues and people
relate to your brand
identity?
Directly? Indirectly?
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A BRAND IS PROMISE…WHAT’S YOURS?
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THE VIRAL MYTH: BRAND BUILDING IS
ACTUALLY HARD WORK!
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GOALS:
BE CLEAR ABOUT WHY YOU BLOG
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Social
• Make friends
• Connect with like-minded
people
Professional
• Build Reputation &
Authority
• Network to promote
services
Financial
• Advertising
• Sponsored posts & recipe
development
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TARGET AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION
Geographic Demographic Behavioral Psychographic
• City
• State
• Region
• Country
• Urban/Rural
• Age
• Gender
• Occupation
• Income Level
• Marital Status
• Mobile
• Web
• Photographer
• Fellow Blogger
• Social Media
Activity
• Personality
• Lifestyle
• Politics
• Diet
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PERSONALITY
If your brand/blog were a person,
who would it be?
• You?
• Your family?
• Best Friend?
• Personal Trainer?
• Life Coach?
• Doctor/Dietician?
• Mother/Grandmother?
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AUTHORITY & VOICE
What are you an expert at?
Why should people read you?
What is your personal history?
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STYLE & IMAGE
Logo and/or Wordmark
• Different Sizes and Shapes
Key Color Pallet
• Black/White & Grayscale Versions
Key Fonts and Typographic Style
Consistent Style for Images/Photography
• Size
• Perspective/Focal Point
Graphic Elements
• Buttons & Navigation
• Recipe formatting
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DIFFERENTIATION/
COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
• Be different…in a good way!
• Define what makes your brand
unique
• Leverage the Web to find
similar brands/blogs and be
specific about ways you are
similar/different
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A WORD ABOUT TRADEMARKS
• Definition: “A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol or design, or a combination
thereof, that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of one party from
those of others.”
• Registrations: http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/BasicFacts.pdf
• Cautions and Protections
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KEEPING THE PROMISE
• Communicate frequently
• Be consistent
• Know you can’t control what happens after you hit
the Return key
• Do: Case Studies, e.g. Red Bull
• Don’t: Case Studies, e.g. NYPD Social Media Fail
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CONTENT MARKETING
Editorial
calendar
(planning vs.
winging it)
More
frequent
(short)
posts
Repackage
your own
content
(round-ups)
Round-ups
of others'
content
(link love!)
Newsletter
(send it out
weekly!)
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http://honestslogans.com/
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CASE STUDY: RED BULL
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CASE STUDY: UNCLE BEN’S
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SOCIAL MEDIA FAIL
The idea: Use #myNYPD to improve Community Relations
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SOCIAL MEDIA FAIL
The Reality of How People Used #myNYPD
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CREATE A FAMILIARITY THROUGH REPETITION
Dinosaur Comics - http://www.qwantz.com/index.php
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YOUR BLOG IS THE HUB
YOUR
BLOG
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AUTOMATE DISTRIBUTION
YOUR
BLOG
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MEASUREMENT & METRICS
“What gets measured gets done”
• SEO
– Google Analytics/Webmaster Tools
– Moz.com
– SEMRush.com
• Social
– SimplyMeasured.com
– RivalIQ.com
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BUILDING TOOLS • Social Media
• Task Rabbit
• oDesk
• LogoWorks
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REAL-TIME BRAND BUILDING
EXPERIMENT
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TO GET YOU STARTED…
Questions to ask yourself to help define your brand
Define the character
• If my brand was a person, how would I describe it?
• What does my brand care about or do for fun? Am I friendly, playful, warm, professional
authoritative or inspiring?
Identify the Tone
• Is the tone personal, honest, humble direct, buttoned up, snarky, street savvy or
scientific/clinical?
Determine the type of language
• Is the language complex, simple, savvy, insider, fun, serious or whimsical?
What is the purpose?
• How do I want people to feel when they visit my blog? Why should people check it out?
• Is my purpose to engage, entertain, educate, delight, inform, sell or amplify?
• Is my content reactive or proactive?
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Notas do Editor
Join marketing and brand-building experts Angie Schneider from Porter Novelli and Barnaby Dorfman, co-founder of Foodista.com, as they discuss strategies for success, pitfalls to avoid, and tactical tips for bloggers looking to build and maintain their brand. Also, learn how you can manage your brand through inexpensive outsourcing with companies like oDesk.
Angie Schneider, an expert in brand building, has worked with executives, philanthropists and billion-dollar companies in creating and maintaining their image. A communications expert with 15+ years of experience, Angie has seen it all: corporate scandal, start-ups trying to differentiate themselves, individuals managing their reputation – and has counseled them through it. As managing director of Seattle PR firm, Porter Novelli, Angie has worked with clients of all shapes and sizes, including HP, Uncle Ben’s Brand rice, T-Mobile, former Yahoo! Executive Jerry Yang, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and media mogul Ariana Huffington. Whether counseling clients or managing the Porter Novelli brand, Angie focuses on the idea that reputation is not an isolated factor, but at the core of all we do. The key to reputation and personal brand management is mindful actions: acting in ways consistent with your brand, heritage, experience and values. At IFBC 2014, Angie will share how to embrace the principles of brand management and implement them as your online presence grows and changes.
Too much? The point I’d make verbally is that as much as we love the idea that the media reinforces, that you have a great idea, tweet it to 10 friends and then it grows exponentially like a virus is extremely rare…even when that’s the narrative. Most of the time a lot of hard work goes into every press/social media mention.
I need to update this and create more action items…what can they actually DO to build Brand. Thought Angie?