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What's all the buzz about branding?
What is branding?
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What's the state of your brand?
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What's all the buzz about branding?

Branding is not a fad. It has been used in the for-profit world for years as an essential strategy for making an emotional connection with consumers in order to become the preferred choice for products and services.

Today, dot coms and private sector businesses are competing for your members' diverse hearts, minds, and pocketbooks.

The reasons for belonging to a professional membership society are not as clear as they used to be and member loyalty is not a foregone conclusion. Branding is becoming a fundamental strategy for professional membership societies and trade associations because to remain viable and competitive in a global marketplace, associations need to create a truly valuable, distinct and relevant memorable experience for members and customers.

Branding your organization tells your members and customers who you are, how you are different from your competitors and what to expect from your organization.

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Articles and Tools

Using the Power of Branding for Your Association

(Three articles adapted from CESSE Annual Meeting Presentations)

Description: Truly effective branding must be focused on identifying, creating, providing and managing the sum of all member experiences. It's all about looking at the organization from the member's point of view.
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(164 kb)


Description: Whether you know it or not, your organization has a branding program. Your brand lives 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Organizations are finding it more cost effective to maintain that "space in the mind of consumers" by managing the purchase experience rather than through marketing communications.
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(215kb)

Description: You can spend $5,000, 500 hours of reading time on a pile of books on branding and you'll probably find out two essential things: branding begins with market research to understand your members, and you can expect sound financial returns from an investment in branding.
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(250kb)


Brand Building Dx

Description: This tool can tell you what's going well with your brand, what needs work and where to concentrate your efforts.
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(106kb)


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