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Branding-Guide

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BUILDING YOUR BRAND PILLARS<br />

(ATTRIBUTES)<br />

As mentioned previously, brand pillars are a few, usually 3-4 key words (attributes)<br />

that embody what your brand is about and serve as a foundation for your brand.<br />

Building out these brand pillars is the most important part of building your brand.<br />

Review Customer Profile: Begin the strategy session by reviewing with the team<br />

your customer profile so that everyone is starting with the right mindset of<br />

thinking about your core customer. Remember, you are building your brand to<br />

appeal to this type of person.<br />

1. Worksheet A (Brand Attributes)<br />

To begin, hand out Worksheet A to all group participants.<br />

Worksheet A<br />

Active Academic Actionable Ageless Agreeable Aggressive Altruistic<br />

Approachable Artistic Assured Authoritarian Bold Brave Broad-minded<br />

Budget-conscious Business-like Calm Careful Caring Classic Coarse<br />

Colorful Comfortable Committed Complicated Composed Concerned<br />

Confident Conservative Conventional Cooperative Creative Cultured<br />

Dedicated Deep-thinking Deliberate Dependable Determined Different<br />

Distinctive Distinguished Down-to-earth Dreamers Dynamic Easy-going<br />

Edgy Elitist Emotional Energetic Enterprising Entertaining Ethical Exciting<br />

Exclusive Experienced Extravagant Extrovert Fair-minded Fatherly Fast<br />

Firm Flexible Focused Forceful Fresh Friendly Frivolous Fun Generous<br />

Gentle Genuine Greedy Heavy-handed High-class Honest Hospitable<br />

Imaginative Immaculate Impersonal Impressive Independent Individual<br />

Innovative Inspired Inspiring Intelligent International Inventive Inviting<br />

Kind Leader Level-headed Logical Logistical Loyal Maternal Mature Middle-class<br />

Modest Mould-breaking Obliging Passionate Patient Patriotic<br />

Peaceful Persuasive Pioneering Pleasant Popular Posh Powerful Predictable<br />

Presumptuous Professional Proud Questioning Quiet Reassuring<br />

Recognized Reliable Reserved Responsive Robust Serious Showy Shrewd<br />

Simple Slick Small Smart Smooth Sophisticated Spiritual Status-conscious<br />

Stimulating Sociable Solid Strategic Strong Superior Supportive<br />

Sympathetic Tactical Thoughtful Traditional Transcending Trustworthy<br />

Understanding Unique Unusual Visionary Welcoming Well-known Wise<br />

Worldly Youthful<br />

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