"Brand loyalty is very much like an onion. It has layers and a core. The core is the user who will stick with you until the very end." — Edward Artzt, former CEO, Procter & Gamble
Brand Development
Three different types of brand positioning guidelines (or "platforms") are used. read more…
Brand Personality

A Brand Personality describes strategic choice of wording and (to some extent, at least) color relative to targeting, competitors, trends and other variables.

Sometimes called a Creative Platform, it draws from the Brand Positioning Statement and Brand Message to convey what the brand is "like" terms of having a personality that is unique and appropriate to the target, conmpetitive set and brand proposition. 

Brand Personality
For instance, use of "hot" colors and retro-style wording for a new online web site offering wholesale mortgage products achieved the client's goals this was unique and  strategically appropriate to young, aggressive, technologically-savvy mortgage brokers at a time other brands in this market were using "cold" colors and conservative language (see Portfolio).