Build and Market Your Brand Like a Pro

Building a successful brand isn’t just about creating a logo and featuring it across your business assets. It’s also about connecting with customers through storytelling, visuals, and personality. If you want to get your message out there, it’s essential to know how to effectively market your brand. 

First, get clear on whom you are marketing to and where your potential customers are spending their time. Analyzing your audience can help determine which channels you should be using to reach them most effectively. Make sure your messaging is tailored to the interests of your target audience and that it resonates with them on an emotional level. This will make it easier for customers to understand what you are offering, engage with your content, and feel an affinity towards it. 

Your Brand Is Your USP 

It really comes down to showcasing your unique selling proposition (USP) and making sure that it shines through in all of your branding efforts. This can be any aspect that sets you apart from the competition, like price, service, quality, or even a guarantee for customer satisfaction. When potential customers understand why you stand out compared to other businesses, they’ll be more likely to choose your brand over the alternatives.

You can likely look around wherever you are right now and identify a few brands. Can you also determine what their USP is and think of examples of how they have made that shine through in their marketing? Take a look at a few branding examples in this article from HubSpot on how to market your brand to get a feel for the way companies in different industries have showcased their branding in marketing messages, visuals, and online and offline locations.

Go for Visual Consistency 

Visual consistency is a fundamental rule for successful brand building. Defining a clear, consistent brand look and feel will allow your customers to recognize and remember you across all your visuals, from logos to website design to video content marketing—no matter what type of platform or medium you’re using. Having a recognizable style makes it easier for customers to stay with you, feeling connected on a subconscious level through the familiarity of your content. 

While the look of your logo is an important component of branding, you also want to define how you use it in connection with other visuals. How will you implement your brand colors in ads, product design, and other marketing materials? Do you have variations of your logo that mesh well with all collateral that your logo may be featured on? 

Your branding is also hugely reinforced by the type of imagery you use in all of your assets. Is your brand style fun and quirky or more serious and conventional? Are the words you use casual and conversational or more professional and structured? The image choices and the font style you use on graphics all show your brand and influence how people perceive you. Define what your style is, and be sure that it’s consistent across all your marketing and appeals to your target audience. 

Combine Personal and Professional Tone 

Even though your brand style may be casual, or alternately you may have a very serious style, you still need to find that perfect balance to connect on a personal level and still be professional. If you are successful in this you will establish trust with your audience and instill confidence in them about your business. A relatable personal tone will instantly connect with people, as if you’re talking directly to them. A stable professional approach will build your authority with people, showing that you are the expert in your field. By combining these two elements in your content, you can engage potential customers who see your brand as both credible and personable.

Being credible and personable comes through in your images, text, and customer service. The way you and your team respond to emails and social media messages should have an element of your overall branding infused in the response. Additionally, your text and images in sales emails should represent your brand identity with that perfect balance of professional format and personal touch! 

Is It Time to Rebrand?

A relevant and modern logo is one of the most crucial aspects of providing a professional and trustworthy impression, so make sure that it stands out in today’s competitive market. There can be a time to completely change your brand identity, but most often a business will want to look at some aspect of rebranding every five to seven years. You may benefit from a change in your color palette, logo design, or typography to bring it up to date. There could also be a shift in your industry or you may be expanding to new markets that call for the need to shift your branding tone or alter your marketing messages. 

Your brand is not a business startup task that doesn’t need attention again. At minimum, you should assess the effectiveness of your branding every year. Also know that branding is not a corporate business best practice. Branding is for business. It’s the way that you determine how you’re perceived by consumers, and it is necessary for marketing to make it effective and consistent. If you’re selling something, you need to know how to market your brand with the right approach for your audience and your anticipated growth.