6 Tips For Building A Great Brand

Brand development is a vital part of business ownership.  Unfortunately, a lot of new business owners underestimate the importance of brand development. Instead of creating a brand, they focus on other things. The benefits of creating a brand are many and include improved customer loyalty, better visibility and exposure, and positive word-of-mouth marketing.

The main reason that a lot of business owners don’t create brands is that it can be quite difficult. Don’t worry though, because this article will tell you everything you need to know about creating a brand for your business. 

Video Marketing

A highly effective way of creating a brand is through video marketing. The internet’s swarming with content creators and influencers today. Many of these people make a living off of advertisements alone. You can use this boom in video content to your advantage, by paying the best video production services that you can find to create advertisements for you. You can then reach out to content creators who specialize in making videos about your niche and then ask them to post them for you. You should be aware: paying influencers to advertise one’s business can be extremely expensive.  Many influencers will refer you to their agents, instead of communicating with you directly. Even so, paying online stars to advertise your content can be a highly effective way of building a brand, gaining more exposure, and also getting lots of leads.

Target Audience

Before you can reach out to video creators (or influencers of any kind) you need to first research your target audience. The purpose of this is to figure out what kinds of content they consume, what social media pages they follow, and what’s trending amongst them. Researching one’s target audience has never been easier, thanks to certain social media applications. 

You can use Instagram or Facebook to track your audience down through keyword searches and hashtags. You can also track them on video streaming platforms like YouTube, where you can follow people who make videos relative to your niche.

Brand Consistency

Once you’ve identified your audience and have created a logo and slogan (which will be addressed towards the end of this article), you need to make sure that your brand is consistently marketed across all of your social media pages, websites, and advertisers. The worst thing that you can do is to confuse your audience by using different branding in different places. Consumers won’t recognize your business if you change up your branding depending on the place that it’s listed. Consistency is essential for a successful brand. If you have old logos or slogans posted anywhere, remove or replace them.

Social Media

Social media is a marketer’s best friend. As mentioned earlier, you can use it to find out what’s going on with your target audience. You can also use it to market your brand directly to them. The way to do this is to incorporate hashtags and keywords into your posts so that when they search for these things, they find your business. You can also follow them directly. You may want to pay a service that specializes in increasing people’s followers to do all of this for you since it can be an extremely time-consuming process.

Catchy Slogan

A catchy slogan is essential. You won’t be able to market your brand without one. Consumers have come to expect slogans from the brands that they deal with. However, your slogan doesn’t have to be cheesy, like many businesses’ slogans are. Your slogan needs to be concise, catchy, and to the point. It should summarise your business in just a few words. If you aren’t able to come up with a slogan then there are certain businesses and services that you can pay for that can help you to develop a good one. These services can be expensive to work with, though.

Logo Investment

Finally, you also need to invest a lot of your time into creating a logo. Your logo is arguably a lot more important than your slogan since it is the first thing consumers will see when they see any of your marketing and is likely one of the main things that they will remember. As with slogan development, you can pay a service to create a logo for you. It’s usually best to do this, since if you are not a graphic designer then you won’t be able to create anything of any real substance.

While creating a brand can be challenging, it’s definitely worthwhile. Having a brand will make you instantly recognizable to consumers, not to mention increase their loyalty to you. In order to create a brand, employ all of the methods outlined here, and invest time and money into the creation of your brand’s slogan and logo, since they will identify you to consumers.