Attention business owners
Learn how billion dollar brands are created and how these strategies can be used by your company, no matter its size.
Join my Free Facebook Group and access my eBook:
How to outsmart, outmanoeuvre and outperform your competition.
Meet a tribe of business owners with one common purpose – to build a meaningful brand by better understanding “Brand Strategy”. You’ll get free strategic coaching, tons of tips, resources, regular Q&A’s and more…
I’m Peter Engelhardt, a brand strategist. By accessing my Facebook Group and eBook you will discover the critical role Brand Strategy plays in helping establish and grow the World’s leading brands – and how strategic planning can help you to dominate your industry.
No tricks, no hacks, no BS templates, just real knowledge and concrete steps to help you build your brand.
You’ll learn how to grow your business using the 7 steps that guide all of the worlds most successful brands.
Define your purpose
Companies that enjoy enduring success have a core purpose and core values (step 4) that remain fixed while their business strategies and practices endlessly adapt to a changing world.
Make the right person happy
Understanding your ideal customer, who can deliver enough business to you for optimum profit is the fastest, easiest and most sensible way to grow. Your focus should be on identifying them and then treating them as if they were your best friends.
Position yourself for success
The secret sauce that ultimately differentiates great brands from so-so brands is a concept known as positioning, and your brand will have trouble establishing itself without taking a hard look at where you sit in relation to the competition with a view to finding a niche within your market that nobody else services.
Stand by your Brand Pillars
Every differentiated brand has a bulletproof edge that helps it to maintain a superior position in the marketplace. This edge is the combination of your “brand promise,” (the next step), and your “brand pillars,” the emotional reasons customers will buy from you, and act as the foundations for your brand promise.
Make a Promise and keep it
Your brand promise is your core selling idea – the shortest and simplest way to demonstrate to your prospects, customers, staff and stakeholders exactly what you deliver and the value that differentiates your product or service. Articulating your brand promise is one of the most powerful things you can do within your business.
Have a vision and be guided by it
The reason most businesses don’t achieve their goals or desires comes from a direct lack of a clear vision. Building a “brand” is very different to building a business, it requires a long-term view and a “Vision” that supports your Purpose. Think about it – how can anything meaningful happen without a vision?
Create a Personality
In the impersonal online world, demonstrating personality is crucial to building your brand. Standing out and differentiating your business by displaying appropriate human traits such as fun, honesty, loyalty or creativity will help you to be remembered in an online world of increasing mediocrity.
From Virgin through to Apple, PayPal and Amazon, they all plan and build their brands using these core foundations that;
- Set them apart from the competition
- Attract staff that believe in what they believe
- Attract loyal customers time and time again
- Guide their marketing tactics and messages
“With over 35 years experience, we’ve seen a lot of changes. However, the fundamentals of how to create a great brand remain the same.”
Peter Engelhardt
