Ignoring, disguising or squandering your one strong-to-impenetrable market differentiation quietly erodes customer faith and confidence, and dampens staff potential and innovation. Elliance resists the temptation to paste creative band-aids over lifeless, directionless brands. We bring the strategic firepower needed to challenge conventional wisdom and find the deeper truths essential to any brand redemption.
The first and best test of any brand comes with internal launch. Gaining adoption, and turning fresh self awareness into lasting excitement requires humility and authenticity. Done well, a brand recruits an army of ambassadors and champions who embody the brand at all touch points. Elliance brings years of judgment and wisdom to ensure successful launch of your brand.
Elliance believes that brand — your core point of view and differentiation — can’t be can’t be summoned by creative divination, manufactured or imposed in any way. Brands must be listened for, coaxed forward, interpreted, articulated, embodied, and supported. We see our role as one of brand discovery. Our charge is to listen patiently — to what’s said and unsaid — to uncover intrinsic value and deliver enduring advantage.
Finding and articulating the brand is only part of the challenge. Most brands fail because organizations lack the discipline and resolve to stay the course. The forces of entropy and decay lurk at every turn. Ongoing partnership with Elliance ensures a steady hand to guide brand maturation, so that every incarnation of the brand embodies the core values.
Communicating before, during and after a capital campaign requires the kind of symphonic thinking that author Daniel Pink explores in A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. Strategic visions and campaign priorities can quickly … Continue reading
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As a newly selected college president, you may view your pending move in traditional terms — relocating to a new city, occupying a new office or executive residence and joining a new campus culture. You’re also inheriting a .edu web … Continue reading
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College marketing and communications teams increasingly look to boost video teams and budgets. All well and good, but we should not overlook the enduring value and impact of your still image library. It’s easy to grow complacent and assume that … Continue reading
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The primary goal of digital content marketing is to earn attention and grow brand reputation by providing valuable content – that informs, persuades, engages and delights prospects and customers. However, delivering on this goal has turned into an all-out arms … Continue reading
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As revenue pressures grow across higher education, so do board- and cabinet-level imperatives to “define the brand.” Easier said than done, true. But also worth every ounce of effort. At its best, a brand discovery should yield an authentic and … Continue reading
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Former Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight famously said to an audience of newspaper reporters, “All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.” Part joke, part poisoned-tipped joust, the heralded … Continue reading
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