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How to incorporate ESG marketing into your overall sustainability communications strategy.

Having a robust marketing plan for medical devices, including effective content marketing, can help companies establish themselves as leaders in the industry.

Learn life science email marketing techniques to more effectively connect and engage with target audiences.

By utilizing storytelling in your social media posts, you can build a meaningful, ongoing conversation with your audience.

Whether the story is fictional or based on facts, storytelling is the differentiating factor through which a narrative can communicate a brand’s values. In other words, what a brand stands for, not what it sells.

When choosing a brand color, find the best color that identifies the personality and message of your brand.

Storytelling is still one of the most effective ways to reach prospective customers. Learn how you can use some simple storytelling techniques to make your case studies interesting, creative, and illuminating narratives.

Good graphic design is a key element of nearly any marketing communications project. Find out how incorporating visual design into your communications can help you meet the challenges of marketing your science-focused products and services.

Brand guidelines detail a company’s visual identity. Find out more about what brand guidelines are and how they’re useful to companies of all sizes.

As communicators focused on helping science-related businesses connect with their audiences, Cobalt is curious about nascent solutions and markets still being shaped by cutting-edge research and development.

The evolution of the Cobalt Communications brand has been ongoing for nearly two decades. Our newest iteration is a natural extension.

This blog post will examine the value of internal and external strategic communications for business growth and illustrate this concept with three real-world examples.

Tell a better brand story by developing and consistently implementing a brand messaging framework.

You often hear marketing experts talk about the value of brand consistency, but they don’t often discuss how consistency affects us at a cellular level. This article explains the biological basis of consistency.

The last time you bought a car, did rational thought or emotions guide your decision? Read on for more on rational versus emotional branding and how it affects consumer behavior.

We get it, the communications landscape can be a bit confusing. So we broke it down for you.

Also called vision boards or inspiration boards, mood boards are tools for communicating a feeling, theme, persona or mood for a design or a style in a way that can be quickly absorbed and understood by those viewing them. Mood boards can be used to confirm that all stakeholders are on the same page or get feedback if not. Join Cobalt Communications Art Director Mark Miller on an exploration of this vital design tool.

Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War, is often regarded as one of history’s greatest military strategists. According to the Chinese general, if you want to defeat your enemy, you must know them as well as you know yourself. The same is true if you’re marketing a brand — to succeed, you must know your competition.

Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, or FUD, is a fear-based marketing strategy used in disciplines such as public relations, advertising and even politics. Influencers use FUD techniques to make us stop, think and change our behavior to choose their preferred option over another more questionable option. Keep reading to learn how you can leverage fear in your marketing — and when you might decide to avoid it altogether.

Each September, Interbrand releases its “Best Global Brands” annual rankings. While we wait to find out who will top the 2018 list, let’s take a closer look at the importance of brand consistency to businesses large and small, whether they sell to other businesses or direct to consumers.

Successful environmental branding creates a physical space that effectively embodies a brand and communicates its attributes, personality and key messages. That space may be in retail stores, restaurants, office environments or even at tradeshows. It is accomplished through intentional design of a space’s atmosphere and carefully considers factors such as color, texture and materials, size and smell.

Call it a slogan. Call it a cutline. Call it a tagline. Whatever you call it, just don’t dismiss it as a piece of throwaway marketing language. A powerful tagline can help you differentiate your business and attract new customers.

So what’s in the DNA of a great name, the unseen coding that makes it look and sound like a million dollars? Our checklist dissects five simple requirements that will help your brand grow into an empire worthy of worship.

As a company owner, leader or manager, you’re not just building a business. You’re building a brand. “Doing business” refers to day-to-day operational stuff. “Building a brand” refers to developing an idea that is worth loving — an idea that will connect what you do with the people who consume it and create a memorable, emotional reaction. And the secret to building your brand? Knowing what’s important and what’s urgent.