With billions of businesses trying to make a name for themselves online, having a strong brand is crucial to attracting and retaining customers. Many entrepreneurs don’t realize that a brand is broader than a logo and colours. It’s how your customers, and potential customers, experience and remember your company.

Fortunately, you can directly impact your brand through brand identity, values stories, marketing, products, services and customer experience. We will demystify branding, look at the elements that make a memorable brand and give you actionable ways to improve your brand.

In this session, you can expect to learn:

• What is a brand,
• What are the brand elements you need,
• Key things to remember about branding online,
• The steps to develop or enhance your brand, and
• How to evaluate your company’s brand and identify areas for improvement.

Presenter:

Jenifer Horvath, Business Advisor AWE

Jenifer Horvath is passionate about supporting women to achieve their goals, in their own way. She has over 20 years of marketing, product management, management consulting, and coaching experience. She’s worked with international organizations such as Playtex, Campbell Soup, and EPCOR; Alberta-based organizations such as Alberta Motor Association, Alberta Milk, SAIT and Edmonton Economic Development; and many small businesses and start-ups. Having developed and implemented many strategic plans, she offers high-level insights as well as executional discipline. Her intellect, however, is pleasantly softened by a compassionate, considerate personality. As described by a previous co-worker, “she’s sharp, without the sharp edges.”

Jenifer works part-time at AWE as a business advisor and coach helping Alberta women start, build and scale their businesses. When she’s not at AWE, she runs her own business, HeartLifted, coaching moms to achieve success on their own terms. Jenifer is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) member.