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Your brand is not your logo or color scheme, it’s how people think about you

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Re: Your brand is not your logo or color scheme, it’s how people think about you

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Having worked in ad services for many years (to the point where I really can't stand the words 'brand', 'branding' and 'brand equity') I just think "reputation" instead. Because that's what it is.

"Branding" is an overrated buzzword: http://personalmba.com/branding-overrated-buzzword/

Re: Your brand is not your logo or color scheme, it’s how people think about you

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A single color scheme is the second-most immature form of branding, just behind combining initials into a logo.

I'm not so sure. At my last company, we sold to four reasonably separate industries with a small amount of overlap. The four lines of products had nothing in common to look at - different shapes and styles, different colours. The marketing department liked the different colours because it made sorting the propaganda cough sorry, I mean 'info packs' easier. But the effect was that there was no commonality in the field - a user from one industry crossing into another would not recognise our equipment.

For the marketing power of unified forms and colour schemes, see Apple. Colour schemes all by themselves probably aren't enough, but they are a fundamental part of 'form'.

Re: Your brand is not your logo or color scheme, it’s how people think about you

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A single color scheme is the second-most immature form of branding, just behind combining initials into a logo.

I'm not so sure. At my last company, we sold to four reasonably separate industries with a small amount of overlap. The four lines of products had nothing in common to look at - different shapes and styles, different colours. The marketing department liked the different colours because it made sorting the propaganda cough sorry, I mean 'info packs' easier. But the effect was that there was no commonality in the field…

I don't think you can use Apple to make this point. Apple do not have a company colour and they just have one very simple logo: an apple (not a weird union of A, P, L & E). Software gets logos usually in the form of an icon. Hardware has iconic photography. Icons and logos change with time. This is sophisticated adult branding.
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