Today’s digital world comes with comparison shopping, crowd-sourced recommendations, personalized interactions, and online reviews at the tip of our fingertips, which begs the question, what’s the value of a brand anymore? Are customers even loyal to brands?! Worse, what could threaten your brand and how critical is your brand’s reputation to the success of your organization or name?
The exciting flip side to this hyper-connected, instant gratification digital landscape is that brands may have less loyalty from large, mass market media buys, but they can also build an enthusiastic, vocal community like never before. We help brands discover and embrace their voice and values daily, which drives more connections and conversions with the right audience.
On the Outspoken Media blog, we invite you to think critically about your brand, what influences its value, how to connect with your ideal customer, and what all of this means to the long-term investment in and diversification of your marketing programs. We’ll share our data-driven findings, notable lessons from other brands, best practices, and warnings! We hope this can help (even a little bit) to demystify the magical, intangible thing known as branding.
on Dec 20 by Lisa Barone
The idea for an official Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) was first whispered nearly two decades ago. It was 1992 (and…
on Dec 7 by Lisa Barone
As a society, we’re obsessed with brands. Nike, Apple, Coca Cola, Google – we’re drawn to them like football players…
on Oct 29 by Lisa Barone
Brands have always walked around with a sense of entitlement. Whether we’re talking about a celebrity, a company responsible for…
on Oct 11 by Lisa Barone
Heya, kids! As you may know, SES Chicago is right around the corner, hitting the Windy City October 18-22. Outspoken…
on Aug 27 by Lisa Barone
I’ve stopped responding to new comments on our Philly blogger tax post (don’t worry, still reading them). It’s not that…
on Jul 30 by Lisa Barone
[This post gets a little personal in my attempt to make a larger point. If that offends you, we humbly…
on Jul 12 by Lisa Barone
Last week a top player, someone who had spent seven years developing his name and his skill at one company,…
on Jul 5 by Virginia Nussey
Oh beautiful! For smog-filled skies For sludge-mired Gulf Coast waves For countless landfills overflowed Trash flying o’er the plains! America!…
on May 25 by Lisa Barone
I’ll go ahead and say it – if you’re working for someone else and NOT actively creating your own brand,…
on May 14 by Lisa Barone
Oh dear, Facebook. We need to talk. Because, as my mother would say, I take massive issue with what you’ve…
on May 7 by Lisa Barone
Here’s something cool – Mickey Mouse is finding his voice*. Literally. According to the official Disney Parks Blog, they’re ‘playtesting’…
on Jan 21 by Lisa Barone
It’s no secret that I am quite fond of Ezra Butler from 1938 Media. Twitter flirting aside, over the past…