This passing century, many marketers have mastered how they define user personas and sold billions of campaigns on platforms that use algorithms, geo targeting, response rates etc. to reach potential customers. 
To be precise, a persona is defined mostly by the daily habits a person performs, their civil status and/or career situation. 
E.g.:

1. Homemaker, 40s, female, fashion lover, concerns about savings and assets, etc.
2. Tech manager, 30s, cat owner, loves to travel, YouTuber, buys everything online, and so on. 

The ability to filter internet users and reach them exactly where they are has been amazing. But many haven't noticed that this has rapidly changed. Today, when a business allocates 5-6 figures for ad spend, following these personas online, holding their hand at every turn, showing up, educating, tempting, luring, promising, you name it... Any platform they choose to flood the market is guaranteed to get them in the front rows. 

I hear many business owners wondering about all that ad spend. Most have been promised by marketers to reach consumers for super cheap.

But that's only true today for the keywords that no one looks up when it comes to browser search, plus the $10/day FB and IG will reach about the extent of... your extended friends' list. 

2020 is right around the corner, bringing with it shameless business models. The Millennials came to age almost a century ago now, many demanded more truthfulness and less pushiness in their buying journey. If it took a century to adapt to that, wait till you meet the Alphas! ​

Aware consumers are rapidly outnumbering basic ones. Two people with the same persona profile aren't necessarily attracted to the same language. A persona can only reveal the  basic in human behavior.  

When it comes to branding and creative marketing, it matters not only to keep up with, but to raise consumer standards by speaking the right language and using the right level of intelligence to grab the right kind of attention a product aims to satisfy. 

Knowing your brand, strategizing and utilizing smart tech to appeal to the quality consumers VS flooding social media, will make you rethink what those 5-6 figures can actually bring in for your business. 

Tools come and go, they evolve or fade. Being intentional with a little bit of vision can go a long way towards strategizing a business's longevity, not for those looking for a hit and run, but for those who are looking to dive into the future.

How much mind to put in the language we choose to communicate a brand? All the mind we've got, and some more.

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When hiring creative talent, many agencies focus on their experience in a specific industry. This is useful for daily tasks but can sometimes limit options when it comes to creative strategy. 

The creative process is relatively invertible and excels best when the incubation process sheds a new light on the industry's specifics, and shifts the vision from what’s seen while hanging around in a maze to bringing new insight on the turns that have been taken for granted by those who walk the maze every day. 

This brings us to the Illumination process, something we will discuss in a future post.

Conceptual branding isn't industry restrictive:

When a creative director pitches a business that motivates them, the first thing to understand is that they are offering their ability to decompartmentalize the specifics in order to conceptualize and envisage. 

A creative director doesn’t pause to argue the importance of covering the specifics, just like we don’t need to argue how crucial clean water is to growing a healthy plant. It is common creative sense and at the root of the creation process. 

When looking at a brand's growth, it’s those who step outside of the box that are able to examine its strength and challenges, and strategize around expanding the limitations. If an agency has no interest in this process, who they really need to hire is a creative manager instead.

Being able to save space for innovation within an industry that has a list of set regulations is something to respect in a company. This is what plants the seed for new possibilities for that industry. #ThinkingForward 

The creative process happens in that space that is industry permissive, not restrictive.

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Our brains are wired for efficiency. They take pieces of information from our past and project them onto new things we're learning about and exposed to.

The "neuro" in neuromarketing is tapping into the medial temporal lobe where deep memories reside, to awaken needs, measure engagement, affect behavior and drive consumers to hit the "buy" button.

Neurobranding on the other hand is to appeal to the part of the brain where creation happens, forming new synapses (neurotransmitter) by adding insight to the cumulated pieces of information, in order to cultivate new concepts and rewrite behavior.
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When it comes to getting what we want there's no tiptoeing. Moving forward with solid steps, trusting in the power of our intentions and in the clarity of our intuition, dissipates the obstacles that many hide behind and keeps irrational limitations from creeping into our journey.

​Let's drop the distractions and brush off any lingering obstructions. There's a lesson for everyone when we go after what we want, when we dust off our own unique design, when we choose to never stop growing.

A storyteller puts out a story for listening ears. In marketing, many offer to dress up your brand with a costume that makes you look how you want to be perceived. Sounds ok, the terminology is flattering to clients upfront, and consequently, at the cerebrum level the consumers’ standards are hereby set.

Truth is that every kind of art tells a story; painting, rapping, decorating, even humming, etc.

Creative branding is more than a suit we alter to fit the next logo and the next website. It's beyond telling your story. Creative branding extracts the essence of your story and markets it within the storytelling. In highly competitive industries, that is what makes a brand standout among the direct competition. This essence sets a path for the brand that is more campaignable than the generic directions. It flows and grows across the board, and with a great product and great marketing it could set trends.

I’m lucky enough to have worked in advertising back when storytelling was a given as a tool for creative talent, and 'neuro-branding' was a nameless innate skill. Many shops use creative terms today as if they have found the formula for their client’s success while creative thinking is really about "unboxing" formulas, and getting through to your target audience directly and subliminally with every detail in your communication pieces, fueled by high intuition and a constructive obsession with the brand.

Creative in marketing is not an added value to us creatives, it is all that counts. It’s the 10% that really interests us in the work load. 

When we reach our targets’ minds, make their hearts pump a little faster, when we give them ideas but have them think they were their own, we sleep better.
We inspire to be inspired.
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Business owners invest every aspect of their lives to get their business rolling at different levels and so many of them have great services waiting to shine and  inspire consumers with that mysterious 10% that data can’t really measure. So why settle for less?

Telling a story is a given when an artist is hired, while true creative directors direct creative thinking to charm a crowd into living an experience. #socialresponsibility

In an agency setting, creative directors nurture the creative inside each storyteller on the team and pass on a process so others can create their own process and bring out their vision, therefore expertly bring forward their clients' #vision  
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We all hear that content is king. Content is a vehicle to communicate the brand, its benefits and uses, and it only pretends to be king because of Google's indexing. Over here we like to call it the charming prince instead. We take good care of it and employ internet marketing and smart SEO to get the best out of Google's indexing and to show up in front of our target base. At iUniqueU the client remains king until further notice!

​Inspirational creative takes shape when both sides of the brain intermingle, bringing a campaignable life to a concept that absolutely fits. 

​When we stand in front of another person, we hear their voice express thoughts. 

If we allow our different senses to pick up on other than their textual words, we perceive a world of expressions. 

As we surf these intuitive waves of  information, our senses are heightened and their physical expressions become a port of entry to their thoughts, dreams, aspirations and expectations. Then we know we have connected. 

Branding skillfully cultivates a voice, a shape, a feel, a story to something that needs to connect with specific consumers who, when exposed to this brand, their innate senses pick up on its purpose which effortlessly resonates with their desire to experience it.

What vibes does your brand emit?