Branding x inBOUnd MarKETingUnderstanding and applying branding theory

to maximize your inbound marketing efforts

Our Mission: To help the good guys, to explore new frontiers, and to better the world through design.

We are a creative agency with a love for culture, branding, and design. Our multi-disciplinary design thinkers are passionate, curious, authentic, and driven by purpose.

Khalid MokhtarzadaCEO + Founder

PixelDreams.com

20% Investment: Research + design, personal + professional development, field trips, holistic activities

Design philosophy: It is right or degrees of wrong

Assumptions

1. Your products & services are good (providing value to the world)

2. You prefer to be top-of-mind (the first choice)

3. Your reputation is important to you 4. You’d prefer not to have to pesuade or sell your products, services, or personality

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Presentation guide

Introduction Brand Identity Communication Channels

Brand Vision Brand Assets Conclusion & QA

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Unlike any other area of marketing, brand development yields the highest level of appreciation over time.

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Brand Vision

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Brand Vision

Brand Identity

Brand Assets

Communication Channels

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Inbound marketing

Brand Assets

Communication Channels

Brand Vision

Brand Identity

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Discover your brand vision

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Why?

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“A well-conceived vision consists of two major components: core ideology and envisioned future. Core ideology, the yin in our scheme, defines what we stand for and why we exist. Yin is unchanging and complements yang, the envisioned future. The envisioned future is what we aspire to become, to achieve, to create -- something that will require significant change and progress to attain.”- Jim Collins & Jerry Porras

Discover your brand vision

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Brand Vision = Core Ideology + Envisioned Future

Discover your brand visionYin & yang model

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Discover your brand vision

Core Ideology

Envisioned Future

The modified Collins’ model

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Core Ideology

Envisioned Future

Core Ideology

Deeper into the core

Discover your brand vision

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Core ideology

“You do not create or set core ideology. You discover core ideology. You do not deduce it by looking at the external environment. You understand it by looking inside.”- Jim Collins & Jerry Porras

Discover your brand vision

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Core Ideology =Core Values x Core Purpose

Discover your brand visionCore ideology

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Core Ideology =

the WHY

Discover your brand visionCore ideology

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“People don’t buy what you do. They buy why you do it. What you do simply serves as the proof of what you believe.”

“The goal is not to do business with people who need what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.”- Simen Sinek, How Great Leaders Inspire Action, TEDx

Discover your brand visionCore ideology > Simon Sinek’s golden circle

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Core Ideology

Envisioned Future

Discover your brand visionEnvisioned Future

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Discover your brand visionEnvisioned Future

“In addition to vision-level BHAGs, an envisioned future needs what we call vivid description -- that is, a vibrant, engaging, and specific description of what it will be like to achieve the BHAG.”

“Identifying core ideology is a discovery process, but setting the envisioned future is a creative process”- Jim Collins & Jerry Porras

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Design your brand identity

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Brand Vision

Brand Identity

Brand Assets

Communication Channels

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Brand identitity

Your character, beliefs, voice, positioning, and the way you present yourself are all part of your brand identity.

Design your brand identity

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Why?

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Because people like pretty.

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Because people like pretty. People don’t like ugly.

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Case Study

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Case Study

Develop your brand assets

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Brand Vision

Brand Identity

Brand Assets

Communication Channels

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Definition:

Brand assets strengthen your brand and continue to provide value years after you have invested in them.

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Definition:

Brand assets strengthen your brand and continue to provide value years after you have invested in them.

Your brand assets can include: a brand book and style guide, uniforms, process templates, email signatures, stationery (business cards, letterhead, USB keys), and content.

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Content

Blog posts, videos, social media content, e-books, white papers, and podcasts are examples of Inbound Marketing assets.

From an inbound marketing perspective

Build your communication channels

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Brand Vision

Brand Identity

Brand Assets

Communication Channels

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Definition:

Think of your communication channels as anything your brand communicates to your audience with.

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Definition:

Think of your communication channels as anything your brand communicates to your audience with.

This includes: web properties, advertising, Store-front displays, sales-people, and call centers.

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From an inbound marketing perspective

Communication channels

Website, landing-pages, blog, newsletter, and social media properties are some examples of inbound marketing communication channels.

Conclusion & QA

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Unlike any other area of marketing, brand development yields the highest level of appreciation over time.

Discovering your brand vision and designing your identity should be your first consideration, as all forms of strategy and

communication will be modeled after it.

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Case Study

Wild Card

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Wild Card

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Case Study

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