By Lauren | Personal Branding
2016 has taken some real talent from the planet, but they have left lessons we can learn from to enhance our own personal brand.
By Lauren | Core Message , Marketing
You might think that using your own name to brand your business is a no brainer.
Although it appears to be a simple solution, in the long term, using your own name is a much more difficult way to create a meaningful brand.
What about Lorna Jane, Donald Trump, Pete Evans or Coco Channel, I hear you say?
Of course it has been done and there are well known 'name based' brands, but what may seem an easy way out at first, could create a rod for your own back.
You see, the human brain ‘sees’ brands with emotion and attaches these to a memory in order to recognise and recall a brand when the need arises.
When you use your name as your brand name, any emotional connection is based on your personal behaviour rather than on a meaningful brand story.
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