This document provides an overview of risk branding, including its origins, definition, basics, and how to effectively implement it. It discusses how branding originated from the Old Norse word for "to burn" and became trademarked starting in 1876. Risk branding is defined as a business intentionally branding its risk and safety management to engage employees, customers, and other stakeholders for cultural change, market growth, or reputation enhancement. The document provides examples of branding elements and effective brands like Gas Safe Register in the UK. It stresses determining your audience and goals, growing your brand over time, and protecting it based on lessons from BP about ensuring good systems to back up the brand.
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04Origins
The brand
? Originates from Old Norse ¡®brandr¡¯ to burn
? Bass Brewery Ale becomes the first brand trademarked in 1876
? By 1980 there were 10,000 trademarks in the US
? By 2013 the number has grown to 300,000
1876 1980 2013
5. 06Definition
Risk Branding
A business entity¡¯s intentional branding of its operational or
go-to-market risk and safety management to engage its
employees, customers or other business stakeholders, for
the purposes of cultural change (internal), market growth or
reputational enhancement (external).
7. 08Effective branding
Gas Safe Register
? An example of seamless branding ¨C UK¡¯s
Gas Safe Register
? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27y9mbPKsX4
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09Brand basics
Key terms
? Brand elements ¨C logo, tagline,
catchphrase, trademark
? Brand engagement ¨C forming the
attachment
? Brand experience ¨C it¡¯s what we feel
? Brand franchise ¨C reaching critical mass
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¡°A brand is the creation of faith in two
groups of people that absolutely cannot
be fooled: your employees and your
customers¡±
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Who & how
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Determine your target audience,
grow and protect your brand
? Who do you want to engage?
? What do you want to achieve?
? How will you grow your brand?
? How will you protect your brand?
10. 11 Creation
Products are made, brands are created
? ¡°Every artist is a cannibal, every
poet is a thief¡±
? ¡°Bad artists copy. Good artists steal¡±
? ¡°I can¡¯t understand why people are
frightened of new ideas. I¡¯m
frightened of the old ones¡±
Bono
Picasso
John Cage
11. 12Creation
Products are made, brands are created
? Where you have an existing brand
portfolio, work with those designs or
themes and attempt to integrate.
? Play around with your ideas and get
a pro to fine tune your design.