A rebrand is incredibly nuanced. You want to keep the essence of what you have built, with enough newness to create possibility and excitement. When I set out to rebrand my marketing company, it felt like the sky was the limit. After all, my business name was just my name for more than a decade. So, where do we go from here?
Here's the story. I started by thinking about what inspires me, and I immediately thought of dance. Then came the possible dance-related names: Tempo Creative. Cakewalk Strategy. Downbeat Marketing (ok, that isn't great... but there are no bad ideas when brainstorming). Tempo won the preliminaries, so I was off to think about a new logo. And then I got stuck. What visual goes with the word tempo? An arrow? A metronome? A racing car? Yuck.
Back to the digital drawing board. Instead of starting with the name, I started thinking about striking visuals and immediately thought of birds. I have always been attracted to them, and I have many iterations of birds around the house – artwork, decorative pillows, drawer pulls, etc. And oh, the logo possibilities! Something about the silhouette of a bird is both simple and mysterious. Love it.
But are birds good at marketing? The term "bird brain" seems like that would be a hard no. Google, can you help? Why, yes, she can! This passage from welcomewildlife.com on "The World's Smartest Birds" got me pretty excited: Crows are second only to humans in intelligence. Crows can make and customize tools, reason, understand causality, count up to five, and remember human faces... Ok, I can definitely count higher than five. But the point is, some birds are really smart. We may be on to something. Let's see what else we can learn about crows... A crow symbolizes power, intelligence, creativity, courage, determination, flexibility, enchantment, broad-mindedness, playfulness, and mystery. Now I'm sold. All of those adjectives are exactly what good marketing should be!
A crow symbolizes power, intelligence, creativity, courage, determination, flexibility, enchantment, broad-mindedness, playfulness, and mystery.
"Crow Creative" felt good, but we needed another short word for rhythm's sake. Red Crow Creative? Oops, no. It turns out that seeing a red crow means you want to get your freedom back through fighting and violence. Harsh. Two crows....? Yes. If you look it up, you'll find that two crows signal the arrival of good news.
two crows signal the arrival of good news.
So here we are. And the good news is, this marketing stuff isn't just for the birds. We can help you make sense of it once and for all. #twocrows #marketing #branding
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