While name, logo, and tag-line are important, they're just the beginning. Product purchases are emotional decisionsa well-crafted story helps your customers achieve that connection with your brand. Learn more about how to achieve the best branding strategy for your food startup. This class will be an introduction to launching your food brand. Learn techniques and strategies to optimize your efforts and leave this class knowing how to create a unique, thorough, stand-out brand strategy with limited time and resources.
2. 2AGENDA
Intro, Q&A 10m
Why brand? 10m
Industrial vs. Information Age Brands 10m
Lean Brand Development 10m
Workshop 40m
Discussion time 10m
3. 3INTRODUCTION
BFA Graphic Design, BU College of Fine Arts
Graphic design and corporate identity
Brand strategy and acceleration
Qualitative market research
Berklee, Harvard, P&G, MassChallenge
#brandhack
7. WHY BRAND?
CLANS
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Paleolithic
2,600,000 years ago
Small egalitarian groups, dynamic leadership
Information is personal, 1-to-1
Image: wikipedia.org/wiki/paleolithic
8. WHY BRAND?
NATIONS
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Neolithic
10,000 years ago
Permanent settlement, pseudo-personhood
Information is mediated, 1-to-100
Image:
13. INDUSTRIAL VS. INFORMATION AGE BRANDS
INDUSTRIAL BRANDING
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Focused on product
Customers = conversions
Generates wealth
Exploitative
Teaching, forcing, patriarchal
IMAGE: JAMES-PRATT.COM
14. INFORMATION AGE BRANDING
Focused on experience
Customers = partners
Generates value
Collaborative
Learning, guiding, fraternal
Image: rosaliewinard.com Temple Grandin
14INDUSTRIAL VS. INFORMATION AGE BRANDS
15. INDUSTRIAL VS. INFORMATION AGE BRANDS
ERIC RIES
What creates value for a startup
is learning if we are on path to a
sustainable business. [Successful
companies have to] make that
shift in perspective, from making
stuff to learning which stuff to
make.
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22. Brand genius is a myth; brands are collaborative, holistic
Brands arent manufactured, theyre co-created
Innovation through experimentation and validated learning
Build > Measure > Learn
Minimum Viable Brand Relationship (MVB)
WHAT IS INFORMATION AGE BRANDING? 22
23. SUMMARY KEY CHALLENGE
Prototype the customer
relationship for feedback
- Audience analysis
- Persona development
- Naming
- Identity design
Secure funding
Build beta group
Okin measures force during strength training, and transmits
data to an app that tracks performance.
OKIN
Okin measures force during
strength training and
transmits data to an app
that tracks performance.
Nick Sulham
Founder
nick@okin.co
(508) 596-6030
okin.co
Making undesirable easier:
OKCupid, wing-man:
dating
GlassDoor: employment
Prostate exam: health
Hallmark: emotion
Trunk Club: wardrobe
Foodie: farmers market
Important considerations:
The gym is inconvenient
and intimidating
Make the product less
techy, less faddy
23CASE STUDY