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5 Costly Branding Mistakes

UX Planet

By Mary Moore, copywriter at Shakuro Branding holds the promise of propelling your venture to new heights, capturing hearts, and securing your place in the market. The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. Yet, it’s a double-edged sword.

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How to Conduct a Brand Research – Practical Guide with a Case Study

UX Studio

Still, how users react to your brand strategy lies relatively out of your hands. Words, logos, brand colours just trigger things – their power resides in associations. Previous experience with a specific brand deeply influences the way people perceive it. Let’s jump into branding research! Takeaways on branding research.

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Barbie: A timeless icon

Business of Software Conference

As this week sees the release of the Barbie movie starring the fabulous Margot Robbie (and Ryan Gosling) BoS is going pink for the day to celebrate this iconic brand and – more importantly – the savvy business model behind it.

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Case study: How Alpha enables Aetna to make smarter business decisions and innovate faster

DISQO

Aetna had challenges in terms of understanding its brand value outside of just being an insurance company,” explains Etugo Nwokah, Chief Product Officer at WellMatch, an Aetna business unit. We want to change that paradigm and be a partner – that’s what drives truly differentiated value to our members.”.

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Why Positioning Fails in Sales

Business of Software Conference

I had a conversation with April Dunford recently to discuss her brand new talk for BoS USA 2023 and the question of why positioning fails in sales came up a lot… April’s obviously awesome by the way. The problem is not your differentiation. What’s your differentiated value?

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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. (I’m Because technology differentiation is no longer a real factor today start ups, it turns out that most products are succeeding or failing due to core product/market fit followed by the distribution strategy.

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Case study: How Alpha enables Aetna to make smarter business decisions and innovate faster

DISQO

Aetna had challenges in terms of understanding its brand value outside of just being an insurance company,” explains Etugo Nwokah, Chief Product Officer at WellMatch, an Aetna business unit. We want to change that paradigm and be a partner – that’s what drives truly differentiated value to our members.”.