This is the second installment in a series from Reuben Rink on effective branding.

In the first part of this series, JG went over the importance of brand consistency to building trust, loyalty and recognition. In part two, I’d like to dig deeper into the two terms that often seem interchangeable, when, in fact, they are different elements — brand and branding.

There’s a certain intuitiveness to this, but even experienced marketers can get confused about the distinction between the two. So let’s knock out a quick definition of each.

What if your most effective content didn’t drive a single click?

Sounds counterintuitive, right? For years, marketers have chased link clicks, optimized headlines to drive traffic, and focused on getting users off social platforms and onto websites. But today’s audience and the platforms they use aren’t necessarily playing by those same rules anymore.