Building purpose-driven brands
A spotlight on brand purpose clears away the inessential and focuses your brand on what’s real, resonant, and breakthrough. Northbound believes that the only way for a brand to thrive is to uncover that purpose, orient your organization around it, and use it to drive clear, confident decisions.
What we do“Through research, insight, and incredible partnership, Northbound has been able to address thorny brand strategy questions, navigate naming architecture, and help us develop a shared purpose across a rapidly growing organization.”
Thought leadership
From the blog
September, 2018
Samantha Temple Neukom
The Subtleties of Etymology, Phonetics and Linguistics When Naming
We do a lot of naming. About a third of our business comes from it, and we have a real passion for both the creative and the process of landing a name within an organization. Thereâs no ONE thing that makes a name great. Great names can come from all over the naming spectrum, some of the subtle…
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- Aegis Living
- Amazon
- AT&T/Netgear
- Bodypoint
- Classmates
- Cray
- Delta Dental of Washington
- Dictonary.com
- DiscoverReady
- DoubleDown Interactive
- eBay
- Genie Industries
- INRIX
- Ivanhoe Cambridge
- Junior Achievement of Washington
- K2
- Knowledge Anywhere
- KPMG
- Martin Selig Real Estate
- Microsoft
- Netgear
- Nintex
- Optum
- PayScale
- People Connect
- Safeco
- Seattle Repertory Theatre
- Space Needle
- Sysomos
- The Nature Conservancy
- T-Mobile
- Wizards of the Coast