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		<title>What does branding have to do with anything?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louis Vuitton. Gucci. Paris Hilton. Monique Lhuillier. What do they all have in common? Perfect branding. They know or someone they know, knows how to market their brand. If you are to go into business, wouldn&#8217;t you want your burger joint to be as successful as McDonalds? Or wouldn&#8217;t you want your company name splattered [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Louis Vuitton.  Gucci.  Paris Hilton.  Monique Lhuillier.  What do they all have in common?  Perfect branding.  They know or someone they know, knows how to market their brand.  If you are to go into business, wouldn&#8217;t you want your burger joint to be as successful as McDonalds?  Or wouldn&#8217;t you want your company name splattered all over the walls that one mention of the name, they know exactly what your product is?   That is branding.</p>
<p>Being on the business side of the world, I know exactly what it means.  Reputation among your clients is very important.  Knowing exactly how your product works and its market is one thing, but branding is everything.  Wouldn&#8217;t you know exactly what I mean when I say Colgate or Coke?  These are great brands and those companies worked very hard to make sure that their brand is widely known.</p>
<p>But how does one know if you are branding your product, your company, or yourself in the most efficient way?  It takes quite a bit of a formula to make sure that you are doing exactly what those moguls did!</p>
<p>There is a website that provides a unique way to measure the strength of your brand. You answer a few questions and it will provide you the strength of your brand.  See where you rank on the brand strength meter.   Take the <a href="http://www.brandidentityguru.com/popUps/brandtest.html">Branding Test</a>  and see how your company or product fares out among the rest.  If there are improvements that you have to make to make your product more marketable, you should really do it.  You will be glad you did!</p>
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