CORE COMPONENTS OF BRANDING
Learn the steps to create and define a brand for brand-building purposes. You’ll learn what internal and external assets to include when creating your brand, and what to ultimately include in your guiding “Brand Bible”. These frameworks provide clarity when developing advertising, communication, and product/service launch initiatives.
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Who it’s for
This course applies to:
- ABMs, Brand and Marketing Managers who create new brands and/or maintain existing brands
- Agency Strategists, Designers and Creatives who create brand strategy, design strategy and/or branding strategy and documents for clients
How you will benefit
With this course you will:
- Learn how to research and document a useful Target Profile
- Get a best-in-class Strategic Positioning Statement framework
- See the steps to create a new brand name (naming dos and don’ts)
- Translate brand strategy into customer-facing language and imagery
- Learn and see the three most important documents in a Design Strategy
- Get a template for Brand Story/Manifesto with examples
- Create a Message Map that helps build your language library
- Get tools, templates and best-practice frameworks to immediately implement
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What you get
- 19 lessons that walk you through step by step
- Step-by-step templates and worksheets to make it all simple and easy
- Case study examples of renown brands
- Course certificate upon completion
- Access to the course community Q&A forum
- Lifetime desktop and mobile access for the life of the course
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Kevin Namaky, Founder & CEO of the Gurulocity Brand Management Institute
Kevin Namaky is the founder and CEO of the Gurulocity Brand Management Institute. A trained educator with 20 years of experience as a consumer brand executive, Kevin has helped brands realize over $1B in new revenue and has trained more than 1,000 brand managers.
Kevin is also a featured instructor for the American Marketing Association and has been featured in Ad Age, Forbes, Fast Company, Business Insider, and the CMO Council.
What Others Say
10 out of 10!– Marketing Director, Bolthouse Farms
By adopting Kevin’s creative development process, I believe it can lead to stronger, more strategic work from the get-go. There were tons of great points and valuable content. Great training!– Assistant Brand Manager, Procter & Gamble
100% recommended! Kevin is a great teacher.– Director of Integrated Marketing, Sephora
This training was amazing! I learned a lot and feel really empowered.– Assistant Brand Manager, CPG Personal Care
Kevin’s ability to translate complexity into simple, easy-to-understand strategy was a huge asset to our team.– Vice President/General Manager, Scotts Miracle-Gro
10/10. This changed my way of approaching a brief. I learned how to create a brief that is clear and sets creative teams up for success.– Regional Marketing Leader, Sephora
– Assistant Marketing Manager, FormicaI thoroughly enjoyed this training. Great outlines and ideas that we will take back to work and incorporate into our business. Kevin nailed it. Great class!
Using the frameworks from the training, our team’s presentations to upper management have been more structured and positive. The senior staff has given our team very positive feedback.– Senior Marketing Director, Ubisoft
Course Curriculum
OVERVIEW
- Introduction & Learning Objectives
- What is Branding (sample lesson)
TARGET PROFILE
- Defining Characteristics
- Goals & Challenges
- Example Profiles & Targets
- Questions for Reflection and Targeting Q&A
POSITIONING STATEMENT
- Key Elements of Brand Positioning
- Brand Positioning Template & Example
- Questions for Reflection and Positioning Q&A
NAMING
- How to Name a Brand
- Name Ideation Matrix
- Name Idea Evaluation
- Naming Process Example
DESIGN STRATEGY
- Design Strategy Definitions & Process
- Design Strategy Examples
BRAND STORY
- Brand Story Definition & Structure
- Brand Story Examples & Template
MESSAGE MAP
- Message Map Creation Method
CONCLUSION
- What’s Next
- Core Components of Branding
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GET THIS COURSE FREE WHEN YOU JOIN THE BRAND MANAGEMENT ACCELERATOR PROGRAM
Alternatively, if you are a brand manager, you can get access to our entire course library for one year by becoming a Brand Management Accelerator all-access member. In addition, all-access members receive access to monthly live events and the complete community forum with your brand management peers.
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