Archive for the 'branding' Category

Personal Branding for Success

One important part of branding is the image you yourself portray.
Developing a likeable personal brand is essential for succeeding.
If you want to rise to the top of your particular arena, you need to first be able to sell yourself to your potential customers.
Think about it.
Would you rather do business with [...]

Be True to Yourself

If your online marketing material stimulates an image in your mind that is just not you, likely you’ve been trying to model your approach after someone else or you’ve been using work produced by someone else without giving them the benefit of knowing you, learning your approach, sharing your ideas and interjecting your personality into [...]

How to Sell With Branding

When you think of the Coca Cola brand, what comes to mind? Does an image of a red can with words Coca Cola written in white display in your mind’s eye, or perhaps a coke bottle? Likewise we must pick our niche on the internet and brand our name accordingly.
Be known for doing good [...]

Saying it With Color

Have you ever considered the importance of color in branding? Color plays a huge role in memory recall.
It stimulates all the senses, instantly conveying a message like no other communication method.
Choosing the right dominant color for your brand is crucial.
This color should appear on all your promotional material.
Following is the most common [...]

Internal Branding

A brand is recognition of a company and its products.
It can be in the form of logo, symbol, color or just a name.
This recognition helps differentiate a company among its competitors.
Creation of a brand is not just creating a logo or byline statement or a symbol.
It is the creation of an experience [...]

What Constitutes Branding?

You may have heard something about ‘branding’ in regards to marketing, but perhaps you’ve wondered what that means exactly.
Some people think branding is like positioning, but it is different.
The main difference is that positioning is a fluid concept.
In other words, you can position yourself at different times in different markets as different things.
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A Matter of Senses

Think of your brand in terms of what the customer gains when it is viewed by each of his or her five senses-hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling and touching.
In a nutshell your brand is the result of everything your prospects senses can pick up on about you.
It’s the image you present at all times.
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Using Your Logo Efficiently

There should be a consistent look and feel to every page of your website.
You want your visitors to know they haven’t actually left your site when they go to another page.
Icons for going back or to the next page, for printing the page or even the icons that line your menu should [...]

Ten Branding Musts

Branding is not just your logo or tagline or the “look” and “feel” of your marketing communications.
Branding is the sum total of your customer’s experiences and perceptions of your products, services, and employees.
In actuality, your brand is what everyone else thinks your company and product are - it’s what people say about your [...]

Living Your Brand

Everyone is not your buyer.
There may be a mass amount of people that purchase your product, but that’s not everyone.
Dig deep and research your audience.
Find the answers to these questions: What are their spending habits? Values? Concerns? Needs? How does your product/service fit into their life?By answering these direct questions you [...]