Not simply for protection or shipping purposes, your product’s packaging has a much, much more important purpose: to communicate who you are, what you stand for and what it means to your customer. In essence – your brand’s story. Read on to find out How does your packaging tell your story?
What is the one thing that has the power to set your business apart from every other in the industry, and create a long-lasting bond with your demographic? No, it’s not your product or your service. Quite frankly, how innovative or never-before-seen can they actually be? No, the one thing that has the potential to elevate your image above everyone else’s is branding.
You might think that doing business is strictly a rational experience, but in reality, it is the emotional state that guides the shoppers on their shopping journey, and it is the emotional response of the client that will seal the deal of a lifetime. Without branding, there can be no long-term success in the business world. So naturally, it only stands to reason that you should avoid common branding pitfalls in order to secure your position on the throne. Here’s what you should avoid at all costs.
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Social media marketing is often perceived as expensive, especially if you want it to be effective. Big brands splurge a huge amount of money on social media engagement with their customers because that’s where everyone is.
You have the highest chance of being seen if you are on social media.
However, this doesn’t work for everyone. Small companies don’t have large amounts of money to spend. They have to watch their budget carefully.
Some believe that the more they spend the more they will get back but that isn’t always true. You don’t want to risk your entire business on the premise that an hour social media marketing strategy will work.
But, if you do this smartly, without spending large sums, you might be able to get more out of it.
Your solution is brand storytelling. Read on for 5 Great Ways To Use Brand Storytelling As A Cheap SMM Campaign
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The brand is the most important and valuable thing about your company. There are plenty of reasons for this but most notably, people love buying from brands that they already know and love. According to research conducted, 59% of people would rather buy products and services from brands that they are already familiar with.
Michael Johnson is one of the world’s leading graphic designers and brand consultants. His studio, johnson banks, is responsible for the rebranding of many notable clients, including Virgin Atlantic, Think London, BFI, Christian Aid, and MORE TH>N, and he has garnered a plethora of awards in the process.
In early 2014, Michael Johnson started work on a key book he felt was missing from his shelves – a definitive guide to the entire branding process that wasn’t biased to either strategy or design, but treated both as equals. Two and a half years later the project came to fruition in Branding: In Five and Half Steps, published in Autumn 2016 by Thames and Hudson.
There are lots of things you have to think about when developing your business; you’ve got to build a team, develop a product, figure out your target audience. But in today’s world, when there’s so many new business launching, it’ll make your head spin (there are tens of millions of small businesses on Facebook alone), it’s more important than ever to break through the clutter and connect with your audience. And the best way to do that? Through branding and logo design. In this article, we discuss How the right logo design gets your business going.
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When people ask me to explain brand development, I usually respond with a question and possibly a metaphor of sorts, “Do you think you would be who you are today if you didn’t have your name?”
Most likely the name of a person is the first piece of information we have about them. The first point of contact is what to call another person, this is what we are told to address them by and often, a name is all we have for a while. We then make assumptions or form judgments about them quickly and those assumptions accumulate. So the first piece of information, a name, is paramount. First impressions can set the stage for future and much larger interactions. A name can direct you in a positive or a negative direction.
There are an estimated three hundred million companies in the world today that’s three hundred million brands with some brands as big as Apple and Coca-Cola others as small as a one-person business.
With so many brands in the world today it’s getting harder to create and find a unique name so how do you create a great brand name how can you play and win the name game you start with these three steps.
Making your brand recognizable but, more importantly, distinguishable from your competitors is one of the crucial traits. This is essential in the era where people out there look forward towards capitalizing on product similarity and mistaken corporate identity. More importantly, for a person to make a purchase, they usually need to first get familiar with your brand, not just to see what you have to offer but also to study your policies and learn more about your corporate values. All of this can be achieved through a cunning construction of visual identity. Here are some tips on this topic.
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Today’s business world as we know it is over saturated with companies making it a very overcrowded market consequently making it even harder than ever to launch a successful business.
In today’s overpopulated market brands have to work harder also smarter to stand out from their competing brands to attract their targeted clients.
