Al Ries

How To Build Share of Audience Attention To Improve Your Marketing Results

Since attention can’t be bought, build Share of Audience Attention (or SOAA) to break through seismic marketing shift to improve content distribution.

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Social Media Branding: 10 Tips You Need Now

Socialize your brand on social media

When it comes to branding on social media platforms, many marketers underestimate what they need to do to extend their brand’s attributes onto these networks.  This holds if you’re a B2C, B2B, not-for-profit (NFP) or a solopreneur. Here are ten ways to consistently build your brand on social media platforms.

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What is Branding?

Brands are short hand marketing messages with identifiable representation that create emotional bonds with consumers through a combination of tangible and intangible factors. In a world where every individual is also a media entity, your consumers and their perception of your brand own it (as it always was). Based on the thirty definitions of branding, here are the twelve main attributes of a brand.

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30 Branding Definitions

Brands have a wide range of uses for businesses, products and individuals in today’s dynamic marketing landscape where publishing and message distribution are no longer limited to media entities. Through the use of social media platforms, every consumer is a publisher and has his own brand to promote. Each brand is competing for time and attention—today’s scarce resources—to break though the message clutter in order to build relationships with their target audience(s). By itself, a brand isn’t a marketing strategy. In their own words, here are thirty (30) branding definitions from marketers and visionary leaders (aka the original Mad Men) to help you understand what branding entails.

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