Your company builds brand with every customer contact, planned or unplanned. Every interaction, no matter how insignificant, makes a lasting impression. And each impression combines with all those that have gone before to create your brand. Every gesture, every action, every word. Every point of contact with your customer enriches—or erodes—your brand.
Most organizations forget to manage their brand. Many believe they do, when in fact they mostly focus on corporate identity. They set disciplined graphic standards for the colors, type faces, size and placement of their logo mark. They create taglines and key messages for their business. They think this is enough. It’s not. They forget that brand goes well beyond basic marketing tools.
By contrast, successful companies focus on strategic brand management. They understand that their brand is impacted by all aspects of their business. Their logos and messages merely become tools used in conjunction with other facets of the organization to create the unique emotional connections with customers that ultimately forge brand-loyal actions and thoughts.