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Your product is not your brand

Dan Salva
3 min readJul 16, 2020

Your product (or service) is full of functionality. It has details — the nuts and bolts. The features, the colors, and the warranty. And it all prompts lots of description of what it does and how it does it.

We obsess over relaying all this detail to our prospects. Sometimes, it consumes us to the point where we never do anything more than promote our products.

As a result, too often, the brand goes untended.

Oh, I hear the defense. The “brand elements” are present. It’s a weak rationalization. Promoting your product is not the same as promoting your brand. Sure there are brand elements in that video you created. You most likely have your logo in it. You probably used your brand colors and fonts as well. You may even have a tagline. Yes, these support the brand.

But if you limit yourself to thinking that this is enough, you are missing one of the most engaging opportunities available to you.

Your brand is not a luxury.

The idea of promoting your brand can be viewed as superfluous. Like it’s something that you do only if you have the time and money.

Your brand holds the potential to become the emotional expression of who you are. Why is that important? Because human beings make decisions in the part of their brains…

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Dan Salva
Dan Salva

Written by Dan Salva

Dan is an expert brand strategist and author of the book Big Audacious Meaning — Unleashing Your Purpose-Driven Story. He is a founder at Will & Grail.

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