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Building the Team that Sells Your Brand Crea reating ing a culture ture of of brand and engage engagement ent inside ins ide and ou outsi tside de yo your org organi anizat zation ion. W. Douglas Wendt Webinar Key Points


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Building the Team that Sells Your Brand

Crea reating ing a culture ture of

  • f brand

and engage engagement ent ins inside ide and ou

  • utsi

tside de yo your org

  • rgani

anizat zation ion.

  • W. Douglas Wendt
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Webinar Key Points

  • Website

> Go to www.wendtpartners.com > Click on Resources > Select Related Links – Wendt Partners Online Webinar Center

  • Conference call

Phone #: 408.792.6300 Meeting #: 570-993-213

  • Assistance:

Call 717.766.0696 and ask for Alice Wendt at any time.

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Welcome

  • Presenter

introduction

  • Today’s goal
  • Key concepts
  • Background
  • Format
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What is a Brand?

  • Common

Assumptions:

  • Logo
  • Color palette
  • Marketing

materials

  • Website
  • Tagline
  • Sales pitch
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Components of Your Brand

  • Elements
  • Attributes
  • Indicators
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Brand Elements

  • Elements
  • Messages
  • Marketing
  • Methods
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Brand Attributes

  • Attributes
  • Programs
  • Processes
  • People
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Brand Indicators

  • Indicators
  • Evidence
  • Experience
  • Endorsement
  • Engagement
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Summary: Brand Components

  • Elements
  • Messages
  • Marketing
  • Methods
  • Attributes
  • Programs
  • Processes
  • People
  • Indicators
  • Evidence
  • Experience
  • Endorsement
  • Engagement
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People and Your Brand

  • Who connects to your

brand?

  • What attitudes and

behaviors impact your brand?

  • When do they connect?
  • Where do they

experience your brand?

  • How do they interact

with your brand?

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Who connects to your brand?

  • Anyone who needs to

believe in your

  • rganization and act:
  • Customers
  • Current
  • Prospective
  • Employees
  • Current
  • Prospective
  • Investors/Donors
  • Current
  • Targeted
  • Board Members
  • Strategic Partners
  • Other Stakeholders
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What impacts your brand?

  • Opportunities to act
  • r influence others:
  • Purchasing decisions
  • Vendor reviews
  • Employee behavior
  • Talent development
  • Leadership comments
  • Board direction
  • Investor priorities
  • Donor development
  • Partner commitments
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When do they connect?

  • Direct encounters or

indirect experiences:

  • In person
  • Over the phone
  • Via email
  • On your website
  • In media coverage
  • Customer reviews
  • Follow-up processes
  • Donor appreciation
  • Investor presentations
  • Board meetings
  • Online blogs/ratings
  • Through partners
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Where do they connect?

  • Any physical or virtual

location where your brand comes up:

  • Conversations with

your employees

  • Dialogue with other

customers

  • In their own minds

when competitors appear in front of them

  • Through your workflow
  • Order fulfillment
  • Billing follow-up
  • When categorizing

your performance

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How do they interact?

  • Any way that you

provide or that they decide for themselves:

  • Real-time experiences

and impressions

  • Mental assumptions

and comparisons

  • Verbal and nonverbal

communications

  • Post-experience

assessments

  • Water cooler

discussions

  • Deciding to spend

time on new options

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People and Your Brand

  • You directly control

very little of the overall brand experience.

  • You can indirectly

influence a great deal

  • f the brand

experience.

  • The brand experience

impacts a wide range

  • f internal and external

people.

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People and Your Brand

  • 3 Common Pitfalls:
  • The greater the brand

promise, the easier it is for people to identify brand failures.

  • People tend to reject

externally-enforced brand requirements in favor of their own perspectives.

  • Brand belief is won or

lost by people 95% of the time.

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People and Your Brand

  • 3 Key Lessons:
  • Commit to your brand

promise across all aspects of your

  • rganization.
  • Provide reasons for

individuals to support your brand promise personally.

  • Value the role of

people as individuals and teams in making your brand work.

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Building Your Brand Team

Partners Customers Employees Leadership

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Building Your Brand Team

Leadership

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Brand Team: Leadership

  • Brand

Leadership:

  • Executives
  • Owners
  • Board members
  • Major investors
  • Leading donors
  • Key influencers
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Brand Team: Leadership

  • Communicators

are often…

  • Intimidated
  • Under layers of

management

  • Dotted line to

executives

  • Untrained in MBA or

MPA language

  • Expense on the

balance sheet

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Brand Team: Leadership

  • Communicators

therefore should…

  • Read the business or

strategic plan

  • Understand the reporting

structure

  • Find opportunities to

meet investors, board members, influencers, donors

  • Build their internal

network of support

  • Learn how financial

decisions are made

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Building Your Brand Team

Employees Leadership

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Brand Team: Employees

  • All employees

impact brand experience

  • All employees

experience the impact of the brand

  • Who leads

employee engagement?

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Brand Team: Employees

  • Begin with the chain of

command:

  • CFO
  • Director of HR
  • Create a pathway for

reviewing employee engagement:

  • Quality of work life survey
  • Perceptions
  • Programs and resources
  • Recruitment / retention
  • Defined career paths
  • Training and development
  • Educational advancement
  • If you are an HR executive,

connect w/communications

  • Create a joint initiative
  • Strengthen your position
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Building Your Brand Team

Customers Employees Leadership

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Brand Team: Customers

  • Who connects

with customers?

  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Customer service
  • Accounting
  • Operations
  • Finance
  • Partners
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Brand Team: Customers

  • Customer engagement:
  • Review communications
  • Marketing touch-points
  • Contacts within customer
  • rganizations
  • Events and programs to

encourage loyalty

  • Level of customer

utilization of your services

  • Use of customers for

references, testimonials and case stories

  • Audit messages across

departments

  • Customer perceptions
  • Identify ways to deeply

analyze customers

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Brand Team: Customers

  • Departmental cross-

collaboration:

  • Sales
  • Believes they own

the customer

  • Internal advocate for

the customer against the ‘system’

  • Marketing
  • Believes they define

customer perceptions

  • Customer service
  • Closes the gap

between sales over- promises and reality

  • Manages

expectations

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Brand Team: Customers

  • Departmental cross-

collaboration:

  • Accounting
  • Deals with customer

mis-behavior

  • Operations
  • Has to meet

customer needs within real-world constraints

  • Finance
  • Makes sure

customers don’t bankrupt the

  • rganization
  • Has to decide if

customers are actually profitable

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Brand Team: Customers

  • Key points:
  • Each group that

interacts with customers has to be ‘on board’ with the customer brand experience.

  • Current customer

engagement defines near-term potential for brand development.

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Building Your Brand Team

Partners Customers Employees Leadership

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Brand Team: Partners

  • Partners include:
  • Sales and distribution
  • rganizations
  • Nonprofit and

government financial backers

  • Allied organizations
  • Marketing

relationships

  • Additional participants

in leadership roles

  • Non-customer ‘fans’
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Brand Team: Partners

  • Key points about

your partners:

  • Partners are more

likely to be honest than customers.

  • Partners should be

able to see a value for their engagement.

  • Partners provide third-

party validation that backs your reputation.

  • Partners are easily
  • verlooked because
  • ften they are not

visible on the balance sheet.

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Steps to Build the Team

Assess Interact Engage

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Build the Team: Assess

  • Start with an

assessment team

  • Go beyond surveys
  • One-to-one focus
  • Whether in

person, phone or email

  • Enlist employees
  • Focus on

experiences

  • Broaden reach

within each group

  • Identify brand

leaders

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Brand Success: Assess

  • Partnership for Career

Development

  • Situation
  • Connects business with

education

  • Must meet high expectations
  • Small staff, volunteer board
  • Strategy
  • Solution
  • Internal impact
  • External impact
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Brand Success: Assess

  • “Wendt Partners

believes in what we are doing and applies enthusiasm in ways that energize our forward momentum.“

  • Betty Holmboe, Exec. Dir.
  • Services:
  • Strategic Consulting
  • Branding & Messaging
  • Organizational

Development

  • Integrated Communications
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Build the Team: Engage

  • Define opportunities

for engagement

  • In person
  • Phone, web, video
  • Online
  • How to bring value
  • Broaden connection
  • Deepen relationships
  • Based upon each

group’s priorities

  • Systematize and

codify so it is not ‘flash in the pan’

  • Teach one group to

engage the next

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Brand Success: Engage

  • Capital Area

Intermediate Unit

  • Situation
  • Large, distributed
  • rganization
  • Stakeholder support
  • Strategy
  • Solution
  • Internal impact
  • External impact
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Brand Success: Engage

  • “…the internal and

external response to the changes Wendt Partners helped us make has been

  • utstanding.“
  • Amy C. Morton, Executive

Director

  • Services:
  • Strategic Consulting
  • Branding & Messaging
  • Organizational Development
  • Integrated Communications
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Build the Team: Interact

  • Create a truly self-

continuing process

  • Monthly benchmarks
  • Tie activities to

performance

  • Perception drives

behavior

  • Approach must be

flexible

  • Identify moderators

and advocates

  • Allow two-way

communication and collaboration

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Brand Success: Interact

  • Prematics, Inc.
  • Situation
  • New market entrant
  • Regulated technology
  • Complex user base
  • Strategy
  • Solution
  • Internal impact
  • External impact
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Brand Success: Interact

  • “They helped us build

relationships and reach

  • influencers. Their

expertise helped us achieve success.“

  • Laura Ahlbin, Marketing &

Communications Manager

  • Services:
  • Strategic Consulting
  • Branding & Messaging
  • Organizational Development
  • Integrated Communications
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Brand Success: Building a Team

  • STEM Initiative
  • Situation
  • Governance strategy
  • Driving major change
  • Multiple stakeholders
  • Strategy
  • Solution
  • Internal impact
  • External impact
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Brand Success: Building a Team

  • “We’ve been effective

because they’ve helped us define a clear strategy for organizational growth, adding great credibility to the success of our effort.“

  • Matt Zieger, Leadership Team
  • Services:
  • Strategic Consulting
  • Branding & Messaging
  • Organizational Development
  • Integrated Communications
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Wendt Partners Process

  • BrandPlanning™
  • BrandBuilding™
  • BrandSourcing™
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BrandPlanning™

  • Convene
  • Research
  • Review
  • Assess
  • Define
  • Plan
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Building a Brand that Sells

  • Leadership

Vision

  • Market

Positioning

  • Work

Environment

  • Products &

Services

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Outside Partner

  • Strategy
  • Training and

Development

  • Market Research
  • Messaging
  • Integrated

Communications

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Wendt Partners

  • Branding

Engagement

  • Website
  • Case Stories
  • Webinars
  • Seminars
  • Resources
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Upcoming Webinars

  • Fall 2009 Online

Strategy Series

  • Social Media
  • Online Marketing
  • Websites
  • SEO/SEM
  • Watch for future

email invitations

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Questions & Discussion

  • Key points
  • Concepts
  • Your ideas
  • Next steps
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Thank you!