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Brand Strategy & Positioning Natalie Gatt Brand Strategy & Positioning Natalie Gatt

Why Your Brand Feels “Off”: Understanding Brand Creep

Your brand can look perfectly fine on the surface and still feel completely out of sync underneath. Most business owners can’t explain what’s wrong, but they feel it every time they show up online. That quiet discomfort is something I call brand creep. It’s the slow drift between who your business is now and how your brand is still behaving. In this piece, I unpack why it happens, how to recognise it and the simple way to bring everything back into alignment.

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