Brand Planning in Airdrie and Surrounding Areas
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To build a proper business and branding plan, you must first know how the marketing industry works. You should learn about colours and how they trigger certain thought processes in the human brain. Learning about your competitors and making sure that you have a decision on your main target audience are also important steps. We offer our services to clients in Edmonton, Calgary, Airdrie, Red Deer, Okotoks, Chestermere, Cochrane, Crossfield, and Disdsbury. surrounding areas.
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The No. 1 Mistake in Brand Strategy & Building
Jumping in without researching the brand strategy and building process.
Developing and building a brand strategy and new business image from the ground up, can be both overwhelming and challenging. It is so easy for individuals and businesses to take an unfit approach to their brand strategy. Some companies launch without having a proper brand strategy in place at all!
To build a proper business and branding plan, you must first know how the marketing industry works. You should learn about colours and how they trigger certain thought processes in the human brain. Learning about your competitors and making sure that you have a decision on your main target audience are also important steps.
A Few Other Mistakes in Branding
Unrealistic financial goals (it generally takes time for a new business to establish roots).
Not focusing on the competition.
Avoiding research on the best ways to advertise in your area.
To discuss other steps that you can take to better your brand, feel free to reach out and we would be happy to book a consultation.
We would be more than happy to schedule a telephone discussion with you to discuss some of the first steps you could take when building a brand strategy. From hearing more about your business, we can also provide you with our opinion on what your first steps should be.
We are also happy to assist you in writing a proper branding guide plan, to keep your branding consistent in the future.
Creating Your Business Brand - 8 Steps
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Branding is not just a logo, business cards and some decals on your vehicle. It is an entire plan. Something that can take months or even years to fully build. You want to generate awareness of your business, whether it be through advertising, campaigning or fundraising. There are three key items you need to build a brand, and branding steps are important.
You will need a Branding Idea. This will set forth why you are the business of choice, why you are different and that you are someone that your clients can trust. Branding Identity is the way that you share your branding to the public. Branding Marketing is the way that you share your brand through channels and the way that it is seen by others. There are many different ways to market your brand now in this modern age. Social media and online advertising are good examples. There are so many social media platforms out there, so you need to decide which you will be using to help spread word of your business. Other examples of marketing are email campaigns or newsletters.
The below list of steps will help give you an idea of what steps to take.
The 8 Essential Branding Steps
Learn About the Competition
Research the competition, not to be the same as them, but to learn what they are doing.
The more research the better. This helps you to gather up information on how to make your business stand out; to make your business the desirable choice for possible clients. Conducting effective market research will take you and your business a long way.
Establish What You Want Your Brand To Communicate
This can be a challenging task for many business owners – establishing what you want the public to take away from your branding image. For example, for my business, I want my clients to feel instantly like they are comfortable with the idea of hiring me. So in my case, I have a bio on my website, I address people directly in my marketing and I use my portrait on business cards and social media. I want people to feel friendly with me, right off the bat. My goal is for people to feel warm, so I use warm colours like soft corals and dusty rose. I use sharp, crisp, black fonts and icons to communicate to my clients and the public that I am professional.
Choose Your Business Personality & Target Audience
You simply will not be able to appeal to everyone, and this is especially the case at the beginning of your launch. An article that I read some time ago really hit the nail on the head for me for this step. Picture your brand like an individual, with their own personality. People generally get along better with certain types of people than others, right? So what kind of person would your brand like being around the most? Let’s use my brand once again, as an example. My brand is warm and welcoming, encouraging my clients to express their opinions on our design work as much as possible. My brand enjoys working with business owning mothers especially, and also really enjoys the relationship that grows over time with all clients. I found this advice very helpful when planning my new brand. Your brand is now a person.
Choose Your Business Name
Again, there are so many options. Some people like to go with a clever play on words. Some like clean, simple and to the point. In my case, I named my business after my daughter. This also later would lead to the stuffed rabbit in my logo, as well as the coral colours I use. Not only is this colour warm and welcoming as I mentioned before, it is also the colour of my favourite outfit of Tallis’. This, to me, holds so much meaning. The fact that my brand can communicate exactly what I want, but also speak to the public, that is a good feeling. But back to the business name. When building a small business, the name is probably the first thing most of us would start thinking about. But this is why we covered the tips above first. Establishing your brand will assist you in finding a name. There are so many options when choosing a business name. You can be literal, and describe exactly what you are selling. Combine words like the Hollywood couples do. You can completely make up a word. Look at so many of the soda drinks out there…. made up names right?
Come Up With A Slogan
Slogans are important. In some ways, probably as important as a logo. When you hear “I’m Lovin’ It”, you not only instantly think of McDonald’s but you also probably picture that logo in your mind. That is because McDonald’s marketing experts have worked very hard on repetition, repetition, in commercials and billboards, so that your mind instantly associates those two as holding hands, whether it’s the logo you see first or the slogan.
A slogan can be witty. It can be blunt. It can be a metaphor. Know that you can change your slogan as many times as you want. I am sure over the years you have noticed a huge company using a brand-new slogan to replace an old one.
Come Up With Your Colours & Fonts
Consistency in fonts and colours is also very important for your brand. As I like to communicate as much as possible to my own clients…. repetition, repetition. Use those same fonts and colours over and over again until the public starts just knowing, that those colours and fonts mean, your business.
If you are going to have complex fonts, make sure that they are readable. Unless, you want to take an approach of wishing people to have to look to make out your business name, etc. In my case, as my logo is slightly childish, I wanted there to be a slightly longer time period where people will be looking at my logo reading my business name… so I made the words close together. I wanted people to look at my banding image and know that there is a story there. Every font, and every colour in my branding image was chosen with care and for a reason. Some types of fonts include: Serif, Sans Serif, Script and Decorative.
Design Your Logo
Probably the most exciting step in the branding steps process. Many people would never guess this would be the seventh step in the process! Of course, the amount of steps in building a brand vary depending on who you ask. A logo, however, may be one of the first things one would think of when hearing the word “brand”, which is fair. The logo is the main face of your business. As such, it is very important. But how to design a logo? Remember you want something that will get the point across and that people will recognize – and it should also blow up nicely. I am not just talking, vector file, that is a given. What I mean is something that is great to work with in all sizes. There are also so many types of logos. Do you want simple, just words? Do you want a mascot for your business? What will your mascot’s name be and how will he/she look in your logo? Do you want an abstract logo? Can your logo be simplified into a small icon for website browsers, and other places?
Create Your Plan To Spread Your Brand
This is my favourite part of the branding steps. Use all you have put into your new brand, and spread it throughout your community. Brochures, business cards, websites and advertising.
Do not forget that your brand is completely up to you. Do not forget not to rush building
your brand. Branding takes time.
Colour Communication Guide
Yellow
Optimism
Orange
Friendly
Red
Excitement
Purple
Creativity
Blue
Trust
Green
Peace
Gray
Balance
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