How to Become a Resilient Brand? – Understanding Legacy Branding
- Brainz Magazine
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Marcia BNoose, born Marcia Anita Hobbs, is a renowned human rights activist, Fashion Designer, and Model/ Actress in Australia. Founder of the 'Human Rights Brand' Barbwire Noose Clothing, Marcia is recognized for her charitable contributions, autobiographical authoring, and pageantry title holdings within the pageant world.
A brand is an identity. It is something recognized by the general public or a niche market. How a brand is received and positioned within the market can determine loyalty, storytelling, social marketing, typography, logo presentation, and, most importantly, its resilience to remain long-standing within its chosen market. Here, I'll be sharing handy tips as a Legacy Brand owner (entrepreneur, digital creator, activist, and public figure) that you need to know to become a Legacy Brand. Practical tips and insights to guide you through learning how to turn your name, your business, and your brand into something of impact throughout the ages.
What is a legacy brand?
Legacy, this is something that has been long-standing. A legacy has an element of pride, a strong reputation, and a distinctly generational feeling. It creates a strong emotional connection with its customers, built on a foundation of authenticity, ethical values, and a story that resonates beyond just products or services.
What does a legacy brand do?
What does your brand do for the future?
Famously said by Henry Ford, “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
A Legacy Brand thinks about the future. Long-term sustainability and meaningful impact are essential to true business success, alongside financial achievement. Legacy and the brand often stem from a purpose beyond profit. Political issues, activism, charity, and community-oriented focus are not only a positive way to get involved with the public and show support for causes of interest or issues that matter, but they also leave a long-lasting impression within the demographics where the contribution was made. Customers or not, getting involved with a purpose that goes beyond revenue-based goals is key.
What is a ‘legacy brand’ worth?
The income potential for widely recognized branding is priceless. From trademarking to revival, a good idea, a good brand, or a good product never goes out of style! The individual's circumstances, brand circumstances, and efforts will always affect the bottom line. Yet, there is nothing more valuable than an irreplaceable brand.
Do I need digital content?
It is 2025, and the simple answer is yes. Digital marketing is key to branding in the digital age. Marketing avenues for digital content can be as simple as social media or email marketing. Relevant content engages customers, the target market.
Digital marketing is not the doom and gloom it once was. Good and bad assistance for digital marketing is endlessly available, and even the most average digital marketer can set you up with the social media marketing you need to stay in the digital loop.
Is it hard to become a ‘legacy brand’?
The effort is part of the reward, and building something lasting is challenging. So, yes, there is a degree of difficulty involved, and it definitely requires dedication and effort. You need discipline to adopt a lifestyle that offers the freedom and flexibility to be yourself, especially if you are building a resilient legacy brand centered on you and your reputation. Donald Trump is an excellent example of this, the brand ‘Trump’. However, the downside to having a corporate reputation and/or brand is that it also comes with its share of uncertainties, logistical challenges, and employee adjustments that could carry your brand into the future or leave it in the past. Adapting to financial difficulties is part of doing business. However, when it comes to your brand, careful planning, resourcefulness, and a willingness to listen, learn, and grow with the times are essential, and that can be challenging for some. Many individuals find success and longevity for their reputation by riding the wave of both positive and negative feedback.
Persistence pays.
Why invest in branding for a lifetime, for a brand that may not last forever?
Self-doubt, struggles, and sometimes a lack of stability can deter many from dedicating themselves to a venture with long-term commitments. A life of routine, working for someone else with colleagues, avoiding isolation or judgment, is much more preferred to the pressures of accountability, especially the accountability to the public. The obsessions of a large dream can be isolating and costly, and often, we find it challenging to maintain a work-life balance, even at the best of times. Managing finances and taxes, dealing with technology, or any other particular task is generally easier if your reputation is not on the line. Yet, these days, our reputation is literally online. It's essential to weigh up the factors of lifestyle when considering building a ‘Legacy Brand’, as the potential downsides can be both financial and reputational. However, in this day and age, you're kind of out there anyway via the internet, so don’t let a lack of confidence or fear set you back.
What are the benefits of legacy branding?
Long-standing, resilient branding that leaves a legacy has several advantages, offering financial capabilities far beyond those of small businesses and short-term ventures. World recognition, a voice of change, influence, politics, and invention are all on offer if you have a reputation, a business, a brand, and a voice that is recognized online.
With just an internet connection these days, you can turn your name, social media, brand, or campaign into the freedom of exploring new destinations, so why not try? The experience of different cultures, recognition, and an impactful negotiation platform that is resilient and built on respected values are all available online. The benefits of having a brand can far outweigh the downsides. A resilient brand can provide a potential platform for personal fulfillment, while a legacy brand can save our planet, positively contribute to humanity, and make a meaningful contribution beyond just a money-making venture.
That’s legacy, and it is a legacy we can all create in this day and age.
What is the downside of legacy branding?
While a Legacy Brand can offer you the lifestyle of your dreams, it also comes with its share of challenges and drawbacks. A public lifestyle is highly accessible to individuals from various backgrounds and professions, leaving them open to harsh, both accurate and inaccurate, criticism. You need a thick skin. Not everyone may find it suitable or attainable to venture their business into a long-standing venture, and this is absolutely okay!
Resilient branding requires a combination of skills, resources, mindset, and lifestyle preferences, with time invested in both self and public issues, extending to global problems. The ability to work independently and engage positively with the market and public goes hand in hand but is not well-suited to everyone.
6 tips on how to start your path that can leave a legacy
1. Define a mission, a vision, and values
The mission, the vision, and the statement that describes values and long-term aspirations for the future and present are essential focuses of any good business plan, let alone a great place to focus on building your legacy.
Take a serious look at what you and/or your brand want to become, with a mission driven by purpose. Take the time to outline what matters, who you are, what you or your product(s) do, who it serves, and how your brand intends to achieve the objective of its vision now and into the future.
2. Secure your brand's name via social media, domain purchase, and intellectual property
Securing your brand before you begin your journey is essential for maintaining peace of mind and protecting your intellectual property. Having the exact logo, words, and images for your brand consistently across all your platforms ensures brand recognition and instantly creates brand resilience, as the brand is recognized with consistency to the eye, with the conscious function of this resonating within the memory.
Hit the ground running and focus on building your platforms and networks of invaluable digital and print value. Copyright, trademarks, and patent recognition for brands that are reflected on platforms uniformly support the objectives of legacy branding.
3. Build a website that says something about the brand
Even if it is just a ‘coming soon’ landing page, building a website is essential. Link your social platforms.
Create content reflective of your mission, vision, and values.
Make it visible. Give it a date (e.g., Established 2005). Update content regularly.
4. Practice discipline
Persistence pays, and discipline is key to both success and failure. Your legacy will not be written in a day, built in a year, or left in a decade, hopefully, it will far outlast one life.
This aim requires discipline, courage, and a desire to show up when no one else wants to. Maintaining a healthy work-life balance is essential for your overall well-being and long-term success. Boundaries, leisure time, and self-care are necessary to avoid burnout and stress, and to maintain your health for the success of your legacy.
Discipline starts with daily routines. Success includes time for activities that prevent burnout and allow you to enjoy a fulfilling lifestyle that balances work, your brand, and all its expectations, plus you.
5. Get involved
Transitioning into a lifestyle that is self-disciplined and involves thinking about business and the world beyond ourselves can seem overwhelming. Volunteering may be foreign to you, and community work might not even be an option, but this doesn’t mean you cannot get involved with something outside of yourself. Something contributing to a better world, maybe.
The news is always a great eye-opener to the issues that matter, media online via conventional television, where there is a will, there is a way, to stay in the loop and get involved with a purpose beyond profits.
6. Legacy is about the future, be open to change
Embracing change. To remain relevant in the future, you need to focus on one of the following areas: environmental contributions, development, invention, critical industry, space, or finance. No matter how you make your dime, you or the business you represent have no future if you are no longer relevant. Adaptability and flexibility are key traits for navigating new environments, cultures, and work settings. Embrace the uncertainty that is success. The opportunity for growth, learning, and a lasting positive impact on society far outweighs the risks of an open mind and a willingness to explore.
Make your resilient brand a ‘legacy brand’ reality
Ready to turn your dream of becoming financially free, open to global possibilities, and fulfilling your desire to leave a positive path into the future into reality?
Let's work together to create ‘A Better World’ by connecting like-minded brands that share unique skills, goals, aspirations, inventions, and businesses, all with a shared care for the future we leave behind. Corporate Social Responsibility. Supporting each other as we embark on a positive journey and live life on our own terms. Reach out, and leave a legacy for A Better World.
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Marcia Anita Hobbs (BNoose), Entrepreneur/ Activist
A life like a little rock princess at times, Marcia is a leader in legislative change, politics, and the business world. Protesting for change throughout the state of South Australia and beyond, Marcia has dedicated her life to empowering those who feel they have no power or truly do not have power at all. A student of Policy and governance, Marcia contributes to sustainable changes within government and the fashion sector. Heavily invested in environmentally friendly fashion. Marcia is bold, outspoken, and an active change-maker. Her mission is 'A Better World'.
