An Insight into Branding

A couple days ago, I had a creative chat over coffee with a new company called R.Branding.

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“Branding is a process that can help distinguish a company from its competitors, increase customer relationships and create lasting impressions on the minds of your market.”

“We drank too many cups of Joe (in a place owned by a guy called Joe), talked about merging some creative projects, and enthused about logos together.  Specifically, the Olympics logos.

And when I say enthused, I mean really, really enthused.  I don’t think I’ve had a conversation that passionate for quite a while.  All three of us loved how the London 2012 was so divisive, distinct & entirely original.  And I had absolutely no idea that the Rio 2016 logo also looked like a mountain in Brasil as well as three people united in their love of the games.  (Seems obvious now, huh?)

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See the blurry photo below?  Sat opposite from me & my freelance filmmaker friend Robert Carr are two thirds of R.Branding – Charlie Layzell and Ryan Booth.  They’re truly inspiring guys, and you’ll be hearing a lot more from all three them on both the 99% Perspiration blog & the podcast in the future…

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But now, over to R.Branding, and their low-down on why branding is key to any business, and how to make the most out of any brand.

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It’s About Time!

We’ll be the first to admit – it’s easy to be lax when it comes to your online presence and content marketing. Too easy. Can you believe we’ve produced a weekly podcast for three weeks now, and not made use of our website?! Well, no longer!

Welcome to the brand new website for @99Podcast. If you’re reading this, you’ve joined us right at the conception of 99% Perspiration (or just scrolled back far enough to see this post, you clever person you!)

At our centre is a weekly podcast with advice from today’s creative industry experts, FOR tomorrow’s – we exist to help people who want to work in the artistic/creative industries.

But we want to be more than just that! This website exists to give added value to the podcast – if you want more from us, then there’s more to us than just half an hour of your time a week!

So watch this space for…

  • More snippets of advice from creative industry experts.
  • To see what we [Jay & Mark] are doing behind the scenes, and how @99Podcast develops.
  • Upcoming competitions, opportunities, pitch deadlines… For all kinds of creative industries.
  • Articles or podcasts or videos we recommend you check out.
  • Inspiration – when it strikes us, we’ll try to share our nuggets of advice with you.
  • Etc.!

And to kick off, here’s the latest episode of @99Podcast…

 

Until next time… Stay productive, stay awesome!

– Jay