Category: Brand Strategy

What is your Positioning Statement?

By Chuck Sink Your business needs a positioning statement because your target audience wants to know what your brand stands for. If there is one thought or word you want people to associate your business with in their minds, what is it? Before you write your Positioning Statement, clearly define your target audience. For example,… Read More »

Work Your Magic

By Chuck Sink Go ahead and “work your magic.” Savor those words coming from clients because they prove that you’ve earned their professional trust. Work your magic – that’s a powerful statement! For the person who wants you to work it, your magic is to them accomplishing an impossible task for which they’ll pay you.… Read More »

Company Culture is a Success Indicator

By Chuck Sink I’m a longtime student of branding and I’ve learned that organizational culture – company culture is the cornerstone of strong brands like Apple. The companies doing best in every market are the ones known for building cultures that attract the best people. Dyn in Manchester, NH and PixelMedia in Portsmouth, NH are two fine examples in… Read More »

SIMPLE Website Best Practices (Please read!)

Eat it or beat it? What are you serving up? by Chuck Sink The website user experience (UX) your organization purveys will either drain you or sustain you in business. Plenty of money can be spent serving up completely different experiences to your audience depending on whom you choose to design your online marketing programs.… Read More »

Unpaid Consultant or Category Leader?

By Chuck Sink The debate rages among sales executives and trainers on two extremely differing schools of thought about selling. One school follows the traditional model: Prospecting > Appointments > Presentations > Follow up > Close. The other model (which has been around just as long) takes only one word to describe: positioning. Business hard… Read More »

Lessons from Generosity

A case study in exponential Facebook Business Page growth By Chuck Sink There is a local furniture retailer with three stores located within a 50 mile radius of each other. This family business has been successful over the years using tried and true advertising and discount promotions to drive store traffic. They are known throughout… Read More »

Understanding Twitter

By Chuck Sink There is an amazing online social network platform that illustrates the full spectrum of human intelligence from brilliance to idiocy and it’s called Twitter. I’ll focus on the brilliance side in this article. However, it’s worth noting that the most inane and shockingly stupid comments human beings are capable of stating are… Read More »

Who cares about your business success?

By Chuck Sink                                   Subscribe to my newsletter by clicking here. Engaging customers and potential customers in social media is very tricky and generally requires giving something. Let’s keep this concept blunt and simple. Nobody cares about your company or the success of your business. They have neither obligation nor desire to share… Read More »

Only Winning Brands Do This

Positioning matters more than ever! By Chuck Sink                                       Subscribe to my newsletter by clicking here A young professional posted a question for The Brand Strategy Discussion Group on LinkedIn. She’s a Lifestyle and Brand Communications Intern at… Read More »