Insight

Your brand isn’t your visual brand assets. That is your brand isn’t your logotype etc. It is the sum of how people experience your organisation based on every interaction they have with it and arguably other providers of the same or similar products. It exists in context with everything around it. That isn’t to say your visual brand assets aren’t important. They are! They are critical and are a code that identifies your work amidst the hustle and bustle of life. They help people attach the experiences they have with the organisation providing them.

Now we have that sorted out we can look at why you might be trying to build your brand without any building blocks.

Your brand isn’t your visual brand assets. That is your brand isn’t your logotype etc. It is the sum of how people experience your organisation based on every interaction they have with it and arguably other providers of the same or similar products. It exists in context with everything around it. That isn’t to say your visual brand assets aren’t important. They are! They are critical and are a code that identifies your work amidst the hustle and bustle of life. They help people attach the experiences they have with the organisation providing them.

Now we have that sorted out we can look at why you might be trying to build your brand without any building blocks.

People in marketing love to herald the death of this and the death of that. It’s linked partly to an obsession with the new and partly to a need to replace the old, which those responsible don’t sell, with the new, which they often do. They’ve worked through the death of TV, advertising etc and now it seems to be the turn of branding itself.

The death of branding is a nonsense and anyone suggesting it may well understand what they are selling but they don’t understand branding.

Healthcare branding is the same as any other type of branding and if anyone tries to tell you otherwise it’s time to walk away. Of course healthcare is special and so are the people involved in delivering it, however why would you abandon core branding principles that work for everyone else for no good reason? Here is what matters in healthcare branding.

Healthcare branding is the same as any other type of branding and if anyone tries to tell you otherwise it’s time to walk away. Of course healthcare is special and so are the people involved in delivering it, however why would you abandon core branding principles that work for everyone else for no good reason? Here is what matters in healthcare branding.