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Place Branding - Branding Strategy Insider

This phenomenon has been labeled “place branding,” “geo-branding” and “destination marketing” among other labels. In some respects, branding places is no different than branding anything else. Finding the most powerful and unique image for the place (“unique value proposition” or “brand position”) is the most important activity.
The Powerful Promise Of Civic Brands

As we enter the New Year, let’s think about the significance of brands slightly differently. Let’s think about the reciprocal, significant connections between brands, cities and citizens of those cities. Let’s think about brands not as cars or toilet tissues or colas. Let’s think about brands as powerful, tangible and intangible elements of a city’s heritage.  Let’s think of brands as civic touchstones; brands as evocative of a city spirit; brands as historically-valued and culturally-imbued objects...

Why Community Branding Efforts Fail

As I traveled the U.S. giving talks to economic development professionals on how their community brand could uniquely deliver the American Dream, I had the opportunity to listen to stories of many failed community branding efforts. I found the stories unfortunate because for the most part the failures were avoidable. The typical root cause of the failures tended to be one of three things.

Place Branding Guide

According the World Travel and Tourism Council, travel and tourism “In 2019, the Travel & Tourism sector contributed 10.4% to global Gross Domestic Product or GDP.” When one considers that businesses, residents and event and meeting planners also choose one place over another, it is no wonder that cities, regions and countries are branding themselves in earnest.

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