"At the heart of the positioning statement is the benefit, and this is key to message development. This benefit (or benefits) should be selected to help differentiate the brand from competition on an important purchase decision criteria, building more positive brand attitude, leading to brand performance"

— L. Percy in Strategic Integrated Marketing Communications

"Corporate identity is usually studied from a management perspective, looking at how a company wishes to be seen by its various publics. Corporate image, on the other hand, is the result of how those various publics have processed the information they have about a company"

— L. Percy in Strategic Integrated Marketing Communications

"Market segmentation involves subdividing a market into a number of groups where the people in each group have some commonality or similarity"

— R. Curedale in Affinity Diagrams — A tool to tame complexity

"Many of the causes of reputation loss appear self-inflicted"

— L. Gaines-Ross in Corporate Reputation - 12 Steps to Safeguarding and Recovering Reputation

"Always remember: a brand is the most valuable piece of real estate in the world; a corner of someone’s mind"

— J. Hegarty in Hegarty on Advertising

"In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart. They are real and sustainable. Their foundations are stronger because they are built with the strength of the human spirit, not an ad campaign. The companies that are lasting are those that are authentic"

— H. Schultz in Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

"Successful brands are like famous personalities – they have ways of doing things that we instantly recognize and expect. They have a distinctive look, feel and tone of voice that we associate with them. If you consider your brand as a living personality, you will find it easier to bring it to life and have meaning"

— Hitchens, Julia; Hitchens, Paul. in Successful Brand Management In A Week

"Regardless of the type of advertising, in any marketing communication brand awareness and brand attitude will always be a communication objective. A brand will need to stimulate awareness, and to positively contribute to its equity, with every piece of its marketing communication"

— L. Percy in Strategic Integrated Marketing Communications

"Messages aren’t content. They’re used to shape content. So, as you create your content for each page and component, you’ll interpret the messaging for the audience and page context"

— E. Kissane in The Elements of Content Strategy

"Regardless of the type of advertising, in any marketing communication brand awareness and brand attitude will always be a communication objective. A brand will need to stimulate awareness and to positively contribute to its equity, with every piece of its marketing communication"

— L. Percy in Strategic Integrated Marketing Communications

"The Brand Management Wheel is a model that is used by brand managers in both public and private sectors to understand all the elements that can make an impact on the image of their brand"

— P. Temporal in Branding for the Public Sector — Creating, building and managing brands people will value

"Consider the following: red, white, and blue. Golden Arches. A red can of cola. Your favorite sports team. In each instance, the associations of color enable identification and prompt particular images and emotions. Every Emotional branding strategy must consider the effect colors (or their absence) will have on the brand."

— M. Gobé in Emotional Branding — The new paradigm for connecting brands to people

"Successful brands are like famous personalities – they have ways of doing things that we instantly recognize and expect. They have a distinctive look, feel and tone of voice that we associate with them. If you consider your brand as a living personality, you will find it easier to bring it to life and have meanings."

— Hitchens, J. and Hitchens, P. in  Successful Brand Management In A Week

"An organization’s visions of success outlines what the organization should look like as it successfully implements its strategies and achieves its full potential"

— J. M. Bryson & F. K. Alston in Creating your Strategic Plan — A workbook for public and nonprofit organizations

A Brand Audit! For what purpose?
An organisation is like a living body; it grows, changes, and evolves over time. Staffs, leaders, and divisions develop their own interpretation of the purpose and temperament of the brand. The result of this...

A Brand Audit! For what purpose?

An organisation is like a living body; it grows, changes, and evolves over time. Staffs, leaders, and divisions develop their own interpretation of the purpose and temperament of the brand. The result of this evolution can be a fundamental misalignment of organisational efforts.

A designer’s job is to take a message and communicate it visually. If he receives poor guidance or dissonant information, the results will not have the desired impact.

A new visual solution is also especially crucial when an organisation is introducing a new vision or a new core idea. The new visual identity must represent a new reality.

But how to know when to operate a rebranding exercise?

The best practice is to drive a Brand Audit.
A brand audit is a thorough analysis of a brand’s current position compared to its paired organisations and a review of its effectiveness. It helps you determine the strength of your brand together with its weaknesses or inconsistencies and opportunities for improvement and new developments.

Based in Brussels, the communication agency Page in extremis can help you define the essence of your brand and formulate its differences in a very positive relationship with its environment and all its stakeholders.

Page in extremis has over 23 years experience in guiding organisations on the road to defining and articulating their uniqueness. The multidisciplinary communication agency team translates your organisation core idea into brilliant and adequate visual systems.

Page in extremis builds brands and strengthens the reputation of Global Organisations, European Associations and leading Corporations.

For more information:
www.inextremis.be