Paws for Thought

The ADAMS Blog
July 8th, 2010

Defining brand attributes

A company’s brand is their promise to their marketplace. You have a brand, whether or not you choose to control it. Your customers have perceptions of the products and services you offer. Branding strategy is about how you can control those perceptions–how you create and maintain an image—shaped by establishing a timeless promise, consistently communicating [...]

April 26th, 2010

ADAMS completes brand positioning, website, and brochure for Paybridge

ADAMS is pleased to announce the completion of the brand positioning, corporate messaging, as well as design and development of a new website and corporate brochure for Paybridge, an enterprise-smart payroll company.

ADAMS worked with Paybridge to develop positioning and corporate messaging. The project included market research and client interviews to identify and articulate the Paybridge [...]

March 3rd, 2010

ADAMS President Ken Cochrane featured on Willmot.com

ADAMS’ President, Ken Cochrane was recently named a Willmot’s HR Thought Leader. His article “Making Your Employees Brand Ambassadors” is currently featured on www.willmot.com.

February 1st, 2010

Brand experience

Brand experience is the culmination of all branding efforts—the sum of the visual, verbal and experiential encounters with the brand.

Are you on the same page as your customers?
The brand experience is created in the mind of consumer. A satisfied customer is one that keeps coming back for more while recommending your product or service to [...]

January 26th, 2010

Brand personality: connect with your customers

A brand is an organization’s promise to its marketplace. The personality of a brand makes it unique and is important for increasing the brand’s connection to its audience.
A brand’s personality is the way in which the brand aligns with its audience’s values and beliefs. For instance, banks tend to be competent, serious, and masculine; and [...]

January 15th, 2010

Going global—Developing multilingual marketing communications

As technology advances, the world is getting smaller and smaller. It is now possible to reach global audiences with the click of a button and it seems that everyone is taking advantage of it.
So is going global as easy as having your website and brochure translated into a different language?
Not quite.
Communicating with a global audience [...]

November 9th, 2009

Transitioning to a new logo

Maintaining a strong visual and verbal presence is important for an organization to accurately communicate its brand. A logo should concisely communicate who the organization is and clearly depict its offerings. But what happens when it is time to make a change?
Transitioning to a new logo involves a strategic approach to maintain the integrity of [...]

October 15th, 2009

Branding for Investor Relations

An organization’s brand is extremely important when reaching out to the investment community. However, branding and positioning are often overlooked with this audience. To gain investors, an organization must present a compelling story or brand that will lead to sales of products or services. This story must;

Align the personality, education, and experience of an organization’s [...]

October 6th, 2009

Positioning Research: Set yourself up for success

When positioning a brand, a product, or a service, it is important to consider the elements that effect the way a brand will be viewed in the marketplace. Positioning research is crucial to a successful positioning strategy and begins with looking into the marketplace to discover where the brand, product or service fits in.
Positioning research [...]

September 18th, 2009

Is the CEO part of the brand?

In today’s business climate, trust is a critical part of any brand. Consumers have seen so many brands that are major institutions fail because of shady business operations or poor decisions. As the controlling officer of an enterprise, the CEO should embody the brand of the organization he or she leads.
A brand is the promise [...]