How To Protect Your Trademark

Protecting Your Property You have your company, your products, your service name, and your logo. Do these communicate a message about your brand to your customer? Should these be protected? What is a trademark and how is it different than a trade name? Can you have...

Acronyms are Brand Killers

Acronyms Are Brand Killers The problem with acronyms in a business or trade name is that they kill your branding. You have an opportunity in a trade name to say something memorable and meaningful about your business. A group of letters says nothing and loses an...

Where is Your Branding Gap?

Where is Your Branding Gap? Are you out there having difficulty finding that elusive “Blue Ocean” where you can sell your products in peace and prosperity? Is it more like a shark tank full of choppy competitive water, where price and only price wins?...

Business Card Advice

I have only one question about the standard, run-of-the-mill business card – Why would you want one? Do you have a standard, run-of-the-mill business? Branding, by definition, sets you apart from the crowd by making you memorable, distinctive and magical. A standard...

Brand Your Space

Design a Branded Space to give your Company a New Look for the New Year Recently I had a chance to visit the famous Apple retail store on Fifth Avenue in New York. In a city that is entirely about vertical real estate value, this store is unthinkably flat. Approaching...