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Insights # Ideas to Help Your Brand *Connect.* Practical thinking on brand strategy, culture and change for small businesses and start-ups, drawn from real work. All Brand Strategy Culture Change & Transition Marketing Leadership Loading articles... No articles on this topic yet. More are on the way. Load More Articles Brand Alignment Scorecard ## Not Sure Where to Start? Fifteen questions across the five things every growing brand needs. Find out where your brand is losing connection, and what to do about it. About 3 minutes. [Take the Scorecard](https://authentically23.com/scorecard) ### ["Take good care of us": what customers need to hear after an acquisition](https://authentically23.com/blog/take-good-care-of-us) ![Author avatar](https://authentically23.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Profile%20Photo%20with%20Background.jpg?width=100&length=100&name=Profile%20Photo%20with%20Background.jpg) [Summer Hagens](https://authentically23.com/blog/author/summer-hagens) "Take good care of us." Four words from a customer in a small Wisconsin town, in a focus group about... [Read more](https://authentically23.com/blog/take-good-care-of-us) ### [I've been the employee on the other side of the announcement. Here's what I wish leaders knew.](https://authentically23.com/blog/the-other-side-of-the-announcement) ![Author avatar](https://authentically23.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Profile%20Photo%20with%20Background.jpg?width=100&length=100&name=Profile%20Photo%20with%20Background.jpg) [Summer Hagens](https://authentically23.com/blog/author/summer-hagens) Twice in my career, I've been the employee whose company had just been acquired. The second time, we... [Read more](https://authentically23.com/blog/the-other-side-of-the-announcement) ### [Your people are your brand. Do they know it?](https://authentically23.com/blog/your-people-are-your-brand) ![Author avatar](https://authentically23.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Profile%20Photo%20with%20Background.jpg?width=100&length=100&name=Profile%20Photo%20with%20Background.jpg) [Summer Hagens](https://authentically23.com/blog/author/summer-hagens) Your brand is a lie if your employees don't believe in it. That sounds harsh. But think about the la... [Read more](https://authentically23.com/blog/your-people-are-your-brand) ### [Launch your rebrand to your team first.](https://authentically23.com/blog/launch-your-rebrand-to-your-team-first) ![Author avatar](https://authentically23.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Profile%20Photo%20with%20Background.jpg?width=100&length=100&name=Profile%20Photo%20with%20Background.jpg) [Summer Hagens](https://authentically23.com/blog/author/summer-hagens) The number one reason rebrands fail? The leadership team isn't aligned. And the rest of the company ... [Read more](https://authentically23.com/blog/launch-your-rebrand-to-your-team-first) ### [If your team describes you five different ways, you don't have a brand yet.](https://authentically23.com/blog/one-story-everyone-can-tell) ![Author avatar](https://authentically23.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Profile%20Photo%20with%20Background.jpg?width=100&length=100&name=Profile%20Photo%20with%20Background.jpg) [Summer Hagens](https://authentically23.com/blog/author/summer-hagens) There's a problem many leadership teams have without realizing it. It's one of the most damaging pro... [Read more](https://authentically23.com/blog/one-story-everyone-can-tell) ### [Every business has a brand. The question is whether it's intentional or accidental.](https://authentically23.com/blog/intentional-or-accidental-brand) ![Author avatar](https://authentically23.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Profile%20Photo%20with%20Background.jpg?width=100&length=100&name=Profile%20Photo%20with%20Background.jpg) [Summer Hagens](https://authentically23.com/blog/author/summer-hagens) Did you mean to do that? It's a question I find myself asking a lot, usually quietly. When I look at... 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