University of Cape Town UCT Brand Creation for New Ventures Course

GSB Brand Creation for New Ventures

Many entrepreneurs are intuitive marketers, not formally trained in the discipline, but nevertheless creative, innovative and ambitious. They get a lot of the branding and marketing basics right, but need insights not generally available to businesses without competent marketing departments. This course will help them make less mistakes, understand the branding process and identify the difference between good and bad marketing advice.

The course offers expert brand management lessons mixed with practical brand creation and management sessions, culminating in a team-based exercise that involves demonstrating brand creation, launch and management insights. You will learn how to create, build and manage your start-up, company or product brand. The course will be broken into sessions that have both a theoretical and practical component.

Topics covered include:

The methodology of name generation and why it’s critical to get it right from the start
The purpose and process of creating a logo
The psychology of branding and brand architecture
Messaging by audience and segments
The branding toolbox – discussing the elements of the marketing mix, the pros and cons of each tool and the importance of a bespoke mix.
Building awareness, loyalty and economic value

Whether you are a start-up, an expanding business or social venture, or a well-known brand, you will gain valuable insights from branding and business expert, Raymond van Niekerk. Van Niekerk was previously the Global Head of Marketing for Investec and still contributes to Investec’s major marketing projects as a consultant.

Is this course for me?

This three-day intensive course is aimed at entrepreneurs, start-ups, NGOs, charities, product developers and brand managers. It will benefit professionals who have created a business, start-up venture, social enterprise, or who are consolidating their business or looking at new service/product development.

Key take-outs

A practical and deeper understanding of the art of creating, building and managing a business or product brand
Actionable insights and a toolkit to use for your business through the phases of its development
Brand management taught by an expert branding practitioner

Course information

This three-day course runs twice a year, initially in Cape Town on the GSB campus and again at the GSB campus in Johannesburg.

For more information please contact the Executive Education department at the UCT Graduate School of Business on 0860 UCT GSB or email [email protected].

Dates:

Johannesburg
13 – 15 November 2017
Application Deadline:
13 October 2017

Tuition Fee:
R18 500