Building Brand Awareness in 2025
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The organizational culture that you establish may be your most valuable asset and the key to your growth. Although culture and brand are both thought of as hard to define, measure, and manage, it’s important to understand the impact of brand equity on profit margin, customer acquisition, and customer retention. Being able to measure the value of your business culture will ultimately drive authenticity within your organization.
Your brand and culture are impacting your ability to grow and retain. But how do we define them?
Brand: A company’s brand is the collective impact or lasting impression of a customer’s experience with a company, its products, and services.
Culture: The tacit social order of an organization: It shapes attitudes and behaviors in wide-ranging and long-lasting ways. Cultural norms define what is encouraged, discouraged, accepted, or rejected within a group. When properly aligned with personal values and needs, culture can unleash energy toward a shared purpose and foster an organization’s capacity to thrive.
Both brand and culture help to distinguish who you are as a company. The culture of your company should be defined in order to translate it into your brand, serving as your differentiator.
Measuring brand and culture can be tricky at first since these two things live within your employees and customers. Marketing science has studied the impact of brand equity on profit margin, customer acquisition, and customer retention for decades. Brand equity is one of the largest components of ‘goodwill’ in company valuation but has a real day-to-day impact on your profit margin. You can find measurables in:
The onset of digital transformation has intensified the need for building both a strong culture and brand. With more hybrid work environments there is less time together to understand what exactly your employees and customers need. Some strategies you can set in place to measure your culture and brand within your company can include:
More than a pretty picture, the true personality, motivation, and value of your organization are your brand. Sophisticated customers demand authenticity, specificity, transparency, and a seamless experience. What your employees and customers value set the tone for your brand positioning, purpose, promise, personality, as well as your look and feel.
Learn more on how brand and culture go hand-in-hand to create an authentic competitive advantage in a changing market.
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