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Why Personal Brand Still Drives the Corporate Brand

Aug 1, 2025

Tesla is planning to bring their self-driving software to Europe to turn things around following their biggest sales slump in over a decade according to the BBC.

It sounds like a smart move: make cars cheaper, sell more of them, and kee...

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Early Legal Guidance: A Smart Approach to Business Design

Jun 20, 2024

Designing a business correctly involves understanding how intellectual property impacts it.

Far better to get rounded advice early on so you take the right steps to appropriately protect the business, than to reach decisions alone and ...

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Branding With Ex-McKinsey Consultant and Serial Entrepreneur

Jun 7, 2024

Today’s podcast interview is with Tom Gardner, a serial entrepreneur, who formerly worked at McKinsey.

During the interview, we discuss the various ways in which he tackled business design in several business ventures he’s initiated.

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Design For the Long Term

May 23, 2024

Visual identifiers are signs that ensure our brands are noticed, remembered, and bought. 

In a competitive market it is important to differentiate our business to stand out from competitors. However, I would argue that it’s not appropr...

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Securing Your Business' Future

Feb 2, 2024

What is your ultimate aspiration in business? How will you achieve those aims? And how do you know when to act on information you glean on social media or via podcasts, or books?  

People have assumptions around trademarks and names whi...

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What's Involved To Be A 'Brand'?

If you're an entrepreneur, you know that building a brand involves more than just launching a product or service.  

It takes time to be a 'brand' because you need to first build widespread awareness among your target consumers that you exist.  

If ...

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What Is Joined-up Business Design?

What does it mean to provide a joined-up business design or branding service?

A joined-up service involves considering brand protection as an intrinsic part of creative decision making, such as when choosing a business’ name and visual identity.

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Why Strategy Requires An IP First Approach

Nov 3, 2023

This week has been hectic as we moved the Azrights website from WordPress to Kajabi.

Our redirects are not all working as expected although they’re gradually working better so maybe it just needs time to refresh the cache. In the meanti...

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Stop Assuming Your Customer is A Big Sophisticated Brand

January 1, 2021

Happy New Year. I love January, new beginnings, fresh starts and all that, don’t you? For reasons that will become apparent I’ve decided to call this episode Stop Assuming Your Customer is A Big Sophisticated Brand

As I’ve set my in...

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The Third Costly Mistake People Make When Branding or Rebranding
May 8, 2020

We usually associate brands with companies and products – particularly with big household names like Apple or Microsoft Word. But nowadays, anything can be a brand. Even as an individual, you have a personal brand. How should y

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Should You Develop Your Personal Brand?
May 8, 2020

We usually associate brands with companies and products – particularly with big household names like Apple or Microsoft Word. But nowadays, anything can be a brand. Even as an individual, you have a personal brand. How should you d

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Protecting Brand Identifiers – What We Can Learn from Jenni Romaniuk
November 30, 2021

Jenni Romaniuk, in her book, Building Distinctive Brand Assets researched the extent to which various types of brand assets can substitute for the brand name once a brand becomes sufficiently well-known.

The assets Jenni Rom

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