Posts tagged business operations
25 Tips to be Consistent With Your Brand

Recently, I was researching a business and came across its Facebook page. The cover image was great + conveyed a strong message with the logo prominently placed. I know exactly who they are. But the little square profile image that shows up in my newsfeed is different (I noticed because I do branding). You know what though? New potential customers like you + me who like that page will never notice that brand’s updates in our newsfeeds because it’s the wrong, outdated logo.

On social platforms all we see is that little square profile image and if you have a different image, icon or logo then how do people know it's you

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Brand Strategy, Business StrategyRonii BartlesBranding, Branding Strategies, Brand Experience, Personal Branding, Entrepreneurs, Marketing Strategy, Marketing, marketing communication, Consistency, business operationsComment
The 5 Senses of Your Clients’ Brand Experience

By definition, brand experience is the perception that a customer develops from a brand’s various actions. It's all the touchpoints that a customer has with a brand. Touchpoint’s being websites, ads, commercials, packaging, customer service reps, etc. 

A customer’s brand experience stems from every piece + part of your business.

I’ve always had the philosophy that everything in your business...

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Brand StrategyRonii BartlesBrand Experience, Branding Strategies, Branding, Marketing Strategy, Marketing, business operations, Business, Small Business, Small Business MarketingComment
Get all Warm + Fuzzy: 3 Tips for a Stellar Brand Experience

You know that warm + fuzzy feeling you get when you’ve just popped into the Coach Outlet to grab a quick gift for your bestie {and happen to pick up a new wallet for yourself} and the girl that is ringing up your purchase is meticulously wrapping your gift {and your gift to yourself} in tissue paper with a little sticker and gingerly putting it in the bag?

That’s when you know you have had an experience.

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Brand Strategy, Business Strategy, Marketing StrategyJennBranding, business operations, Branding Strategies, Brand Experience, Marketing Strategy, Marketing, storytelling, Storytelling, Small Business Marketing, Business Comments
The ultimate guide to finding inspiration: 35 ideas for sparking creativity

It’s a crisp fall day and leaves are painting the horizon in rich orange, yellow + red hues. Steam rolls off the top of your warm pumpkin spice latte as you watch a light morning mist lift up over the hills. In this quiet moment your mind expands + potential ideas bubble to the surface sparking infinite possibilities.

This. This is inspiration. A muse. Your muse.

This is where art + science + technology comes from. Were innovations to make our world better are formed.

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Business StrategyRonii BartlesCreative Thinking, Creative Concepts, Creativity, Marketing Strategy, Marketing, business growth, business operations, Branding, Business, storytellingComment
3 Tips to Perfectly Prevail Over a Business Bully

If you thought you left your high school bully stuffing you in a locker back in high school, think again. Bullies are everywhere. A bully is a bully regardless of age, education or social status.

I'd like to think in the business world that we all keep our eyes on our own paper. And that there is enough work + success to go around that we all get to drink bubbly champagne on yachts in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea like Beyonce. Is business so terrible out that we need to resort to bullying colleagues to make ourselves look {read: feel} better?

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Business StrategyRonii Bartlesbusiness operations, Business, business practice, Small Business, strategic, Mix it upComment
Bringing Cocktail Napkin Ideas to Reality

It’s Thursday afternoon. And a long week already. You think your brain is about to explode because there is so much going on. Your business buddy texts you, “hey, what are you doing for happy hour? Wanna get a drink and catch up?” That sounds about perfect right now. The daily grind of working on this and that and demanding clients has you a bit down. And not only do you love a good cold libation you love the conversation you can have with someone who understands what you're going through. It is always a good motivator to chat with someone else who just GETS IT...

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Business StrategyRonii BartlesMarketing, Brainstorming, Creative Thinking, Branding, business growth, business practice, mastermind, Small Business Marketing, business operationsComment