Blog : brand identity

LinkedIn Best Practices: What Not To Do
Andrea Kagey

LinkedIn Best Practices: What Not To Do

Out of all of the social platforms out there, LinkedIn is the best when it comes to promoting a professional presence, maintaining industry relationships, building new networks, and creating brand awareness. While it’s useful to know successful strategies for optimizing your LinkedIn business page, there is equal value in knowing what kinds of posting habits can hurt your brand too. Read our latest blog post for Part Two in our LinkedIn series to learn about the top seven things we discourage our insight180 clients from doing on LinkedIn. Read more here.

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LinkedIn Best Practices: Elevate Your Brand Page
Andrea Kagey

LinkedIn Best Practices: Elevate Your Brand Page

When it comes to making an impact on LinkedIn, building your brand awareness should be a priority. Whether you're a seasoned industry leader or a budding startup, mastering the art of LinkedIn branding is key to elevating your brand and unlocking new opportunities in the digital landscape. Here are insight180’s top ten essential strategies for optimizing your LinkedIn business page to leverage the platform to its full potential.

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Six Easy Steps For a Website Refresh
insight 180 team

Six Easy Steps For a Website Refresh

In the ever-changing business landscape, a brand refresh can be a powerful tool for staying relevant and connecting with your audience. By embracing change, fine tuning your unique brand essence, engaging stakeholders, crafting a compelling story, and updating your visual identity, you can reestablish meaningful connections with your most important stakeholders.

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WHY BRAND AUTHENTICITY MATTERS (and How to Make Yours Shine)
Wendy Baird

WHY BRAND AUTHENTICITY MATTERS (and How to Make Yours Shine)

When it comes to marketing and communications there’s lots of talk about brand alignment, core values, and brand authenticity. The truth is, those have always been important, but the more virtual and online our lives have become, the more we seek genuine connection and authenticity. Your customers, audience, or clientele need experiences that are transparent, real, and engaging. They want trust in the buying experience and the brands they support to – quite frankly, my dear – give a damn.

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REVISIONING YOUR BRAND. WHAT IF…?
Wendy Baird

REVISIONING YOUR BRAND. WHAT IF…?

What if you could redesign your brand vision based around your ideal business? What would it look like? What value will you provide? Who would your best customers be? By starting with your brand vision, and then re-envisioning it, your true brand will show itself. Read more on our blog post.

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Santa’s Brand Refresh
insight 180 team

Santa’s Brand Refresh

Is Santa Claus in need of brand refresh? Whether you believe in Santa or not – and whether you buy into his whole naughty or nice routine – you have to admit, the man with the white beard in the red suit from the north pole is a really strong brand. Everyone knows who he is and what he stands for. His values and passions are clear to us. And they are consistent. Santa Claus is about the good in life. He is jolly, generous, hard-working, and giving. But has he been “played out?”

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Why Giving Back Is Good For Business And For You.
insight 180 team

Why Giving Back Is Good For Business And For You.

While giving as an individual is always rewarding, making charitable giving a part of your business’s brand culture can have an even bigger impact on the causes you believe in. Using your position and the platform of your organization to lift up causes and nonprofits you support is a great way to strengthen connections within your community and amongst your employees. In truth, the benefits of charitable giving as a business go far beyond the bottom line. Read on to find out more about the benefits of giving back.

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WHY YOUR POSITIONING IS WEAK AND HOW YOU CAN FIX IT.
Wendy Baird

WHY YOUR POSITIONING IS WEAK AND HOW YOU CAN FIX IT.

When you make visitors and potential clients search on your website to find out what it is you do or how you can help them, you’re running the risk of losing them altogether. Unless you are a marketing-savvy emerging tech company touting a unique new service, you are probably coming off as one of many in a sea of sameness. How does your brand set you apart? How does your organization position itself? How do you express it? And why does this matter? Read on to find out why your brand positioning is weak and how you can fix it.

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Ready to Step Out of Your Comfort Zone? Try Ignite!
Wendy Baird

Ready to Step Out of Your Comfort Zone? Try Ignite!

As a professional, growth often comes with experience in the field, mentor feedback, and educational opportunities. And, while we may experience bouts of discomfort along the way, most of what we do remains familiar and comfortable to our skill sets. It’s when we take a chance and step out of our comfort zone that the opportunity to grow and learn presents itself.

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Fostering That Little Brand Voice In Your Head
Andrea Kagey

Fostering That Little Brand Voice In Your Head

Think about an engaging character from a television show or movie. What about them is memorable for you? Is it the way they hold their own during a conflict or how they talk (and laugh) just like you do when you’re hanging with your best friends? Is their sarcastic wit comforting and familiar or does it trigger a response of unease? When we immerse ourselves in entertainment, we come to feel like we know the characters as if they were real people in our lives. The same can be true of the brands we love.

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