Entries by Lorraine Carter

Company Culture: Your Brand’s Strongest Competitive Advantage

Company culture may be the most vague aspect of brand management but carefully controlled and nurtured it can provide your brand with a sustainable competitive advantage that even your strongest competitors cannot replicate.   Company culture is a culmination of the behaviors, attitudes, relationships, core brand values and environment within a business. Simply put, your […]

Are Your Brand Values On The Money? They’re Critical to Your Profitability

The last five years has seen a massive shift in the fundamentals that shape the corporate operating environment. Technological advances and economic influences have led to fundamental changes in global business practices and customer behaviour.   These changes demand businesses to alter and adapt their business models in order to maintain relevancy and profitability, but […]

7 Steps to Branding Your Way Out of Recession and Into Profitable Growth

There are few companies in existence that have not felt the affects of the current recession impacting on their business and profit margins. As many of us know, uneasiness in the market fostered by fears of job losses and reduction in wages has consumer spending at an all time low.   Many business leaders feeling […]

Risky Business: How to Safe Guard Your Brand

Over 80% of the Fortune 500 Company CEO’s identified ‘their brand’ as their company’s number one asset. Their brand was valued as being what defined their business and what made them unique in their market.   Your brand is what sets you apart from your competition. It is the differentiating factor used by your consumer’s […]