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1.0crowdspring Bloghttps://www.crowdspring.com/blogRoss Kimbarovskyhttps://www.crowdspring.com/blog/author/ross/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="lKXb3yf1k3"><a href="https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/startups-small-business-branding/">Branding Secrets Of The World’s Best Brands</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/startups-small-business-branding/embed/#?secret=lKXb3yf1k3" width="600" height="338" title="“Branding Secrets Of The World’s Best Brands” — crowdspring Blog" data-secret="lKXb3yf1k3" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! 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A brand is the sum total of the experience your prospects and customers have with your company. A strong brand communicates what your company does and how it does it and at the same time, establishes trust and credibility with your prospects and customers. Your company’s brand is, in many ways, its personality. Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. The PSFK Good Brands Report 2009 (PSFK is a trends research and innovations company) recently identified the top 10 global brands. The report prompted me to think about our branding strategy for crowdspring and the branding strategies of the companies we admire (Amazon, Apple, Zappos, and 37signals, among others). As I thought about those strategies, I realized they explained five common lessons that small businesses and startups can learn from the world’s best brands. 1. A Brand Should Have A Good Name and Logo A strong company (or product) name is easily recognizable and is important to good branding. New startups and small businesses face many challenges in developing a company name (among the challenges: it’s very difficult to find a good name and an available domain; many short names have already been taken). However, plenty of successful brands have proven that there are many different ways to create a company name. For example, many successful brands use real words (Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Yelp), and some use misspelled words (Google), compounds (Facebook, Firefox, WordPress), phrases (LinkedIn, SecondLife), and other variations. If you’re interested in more examples – especially if you’re struggling to find a name for your company – I recommend you read this post about company names types. When you start thinking about building your brand, ask yourself the following questions: What do you hope to accomplish with your company? What do your customers and potential customers currently think of your company? What do you want your customers to think when they think of your company? How do you differentiate yourself from your competitors? The above questions are important not only for selecting a strong company name, but also for selecting a strong logo. (image credit: Ludwig Gatzke). The logo is one of the most important elements of a brand. As you think about your logo, keep your audience and products/services in mind because you want your logo to reflect your company. A good logo builds trust, and a strong one will help pull your brand together.Think about the logos of some of the world’s most admired brands (Apple, Google, Amazon). How do you feel (emotionally) when you see one of those logos? By making your logo the main theme of your marketing and advertising activities (online and..