Building Brand Reach
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Bedbury introduces the concept of brandwidth — the combination of how many people your brand reaches and how deeply it resonates with them. Most young organisations focus exclusively on reach: more followers, more impressions, more visibility. But reach without depth produces awareness without trust. People know the name but have no strong feeling about it. The brands that endure invest in depth first — making the experience of their existing audience so good that it generates genuine word of mouth — and then expand reach. The sequence matters. Building depth with a small loyal audience produces something that scales with integrity. Building reach with a shallow product or experience produces a following that is easy to lose and hard to convert.