Branding is essential for every type of business, including SMBs and the big names. We are living in a world of brands and they have now become the identity of businesses. A strong brand must educate, entertain and inspire customers.
Branding is a way of defining and presenting your business to your audience. A strategically defined brand can bring a lot of for your business.
A great brand embodies a company’s core values and represents more than a product; it creates and holds an emotional connection between your customers and your brand. When customers connect emotionally and believe in your brand, it leads to loyalty and higher sales.
Given below are a few tips to help you in building a strong brand:
Logo Design & Brand Name
A strong brand is always easily recognizable and the recognition starts with brand name and a creative logo made by some best logo design company. These two things are used everywhere for marketing, on your business cards, website, letterhead, promotional materials and social networks. In brand identity, logo is the central, identifiable key element that helps customers remember and discover a company’s brand.
Define your Brand
There are several fundamentals to help you in defining your vision and goals of your brand:
- How is the brand perceived against competitors?
- What is the positioning statement of your brand?
- What benefits do you want customers to associate with your brand?
- What is your audience? Where will the company have contact with them?
Be Noticed
- Always remember “First impression is the last impression”. Attract people with your brand. Don’t use tatty business cards, poorly designed advert or dodgy home-made literature.
- Link your brand with catchy taglines, images and brand benefits.
Grow Your Community
Many of the world’s top brands, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Skype and Virgin, spend huge amounts on advertising and also focus on building their communities. These companies believe that if audience trusts a brand’s community, they will trust the brand.
If you are a new brand, you have many opportunities to build online and offline communities. Social media is a big platform for building communities, you can build online communities on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or on other social networks. I’ll suggest selecting one or two platforms where you can invest your time and resources for building your community.
Deliver Quality
For building a strong brand, you need to deliver a combination of product leadership in the marketplace (like Apple), great customer services (like Virgin) and great operational services (like IKEA).
Keep Your Promises
You’d be surprised to know that many new brands fail because they fail delivering on what they promise. Happy and satisfied customers are your best referrals.
