Author Savage BrandsCategories Culture/Employee EngagementLeave a comment on Brand Advocates: A Tale of Two Car Dealerships Brand Advocates: A Tale of Two Car Dealerships
Recently, I had the privilege to see a company whose brand advocates inspired action and loyalty. My husband and I were in the unenviable position of being in dire need of a new car, the old one having finally given up the ghost. Our search took us to two dealerships – one we had been attracted to by radio commercials promising unbeatable deals, and one that had been recommended to us for the positive experience of working with them.
Author Savage BrandsCategories InnovationLeave a comment on Blast Through a Creative Block: Just Do It Blast Through a Creative Block: Just Do It
Folks who work in creative roles are all too familiar with the idea of creative block, but you don’t have to be in a traditionally creative role to experience a lack of creativity just when you need it most. By any name – writer’s block, designer’s doldrums, accounting apathy, marketing malaise, programmer’s procrastination – the frustrating lack of inspiration is just as hard.
Author Savage BrandsCategories Culture/Employee EngagementLeave a comment on 3 Ways to Give Your Company an “Attitude Adjustment” 3 Ways to Give Your Company an “Attitude Adjustment”
Recently, a Texas restaurant shut its doors temporarily, noting on its sign that it was “closed for an attitude adjustment.” When we hear the phrase “attitude adjustment,” we often think of a parent correcting a child who’s not acting the way he should – and that’s just what this restaurant owner was doing with his business. After noting that his workers’ customer service was not meeting the standards he expected, he announced the restaurant would close for a time of reflection, training and staffing changes.
Author Savage BrandsCategories Branding, Savage ThinkingLeave a comment on Corporate Purpose is No Longer Optional Corporate Purpose is No Longer Optional
Forbes magazine recently published an article that confirmed what we at Savage preach to our clients: “People don’t come to work every day for just a paycheck, and customers aren’t indiscriminate shoppers anymore. They both want purpose, they want to believe, and they want to feel like they’re part of something large than themselves.” Purpose – it’s our favorite word at Savage.
Author Savage BrandsCategories Branding, Culture/Employee Engagement, Employer BrandingLeave a comment on Assessing Your HR Brand: Are You Retaining the Best & Brightest? Assessing Your HR Brand: Are You Retaining the Best & Brightest?
Whether you’ve set out to intentionally create one or not, your company has an HR brand. An HR brand is more specific than your overall brand, and is internal to the company – it encompasses the way your employees experience your workplace and talk about it, the way leadership deals with internal issues and the beliefs employees have about why it’s important to work there.
Author Savage BrandsCategories SustainabilityLeave a comment on A Policy is a Path – Part 3: Planning Social Sustainability into your Company’s Future A Policy is a Path – Part 3: Planning Social Sustainability into your Company’s Future
We’ve blogged about how we came to the realization that we needed to formalize our sustainability policy and we’ve gone into details about the environmental and economic aspects of our policy, but we’ve saved the part that we’re most proud of for last: our commitment to social sustainability.
Author Savage BrandsCategories SustainabilityLeave a comment on A Policy is a Path – Part 2: Planning Economic Sustainability into your Company’s Future A Policy is a Path – Part 2: Planning Economic Sustainability into your Company’s Future
The other day we blogged about how we came to the realization that it was time for Savage to have a clear sustainability policy when a potential client for a sustainability report asked about our own policy. Fast forward a couple of years, and now we’ve worked to integrate sustainability into every facet of our work. We formalized a holistic policy based on three tenets of sustainability – environmental, social and economic.
Author Savage BrandsCategories SustainabilityLeave a comment on A Policy is a Path – Part 1: Planning Environmental Sustainability into your Company’s Future A Policy is a Path – Part 1: Planning Environmental Sustainability into your Company’s Future
Some days, learning something from a client can be as simple as rethinking a typeface choice because of their reaction. Sometimes, it can completely revolutionize the way you do business.
Author Savage BrandsCategories Design for GoodLeave a comment on Naughty or Nice? A Handy Chart to Test Your Holiday Spirit Naughty or Nice? A Handy Chart to Test Your Holiday Spirit
Do you sing along to Christmas songs? Well, you may have great holiday spirit but you could also lack a spot on the ‘Nice’ list.