• August 14, 2018
• by fsadvertising

As the world of marketing undergoes a series of changes, several businesses are facing the challenge to stand out in the growing competition. Running a business is tough since you have to spread the word. When it comes to branding your business, it is all about making it knowable, trust-able and like-able. As competition becomes more fierce, companies look for ways to connect with customers to create loyal relationships and thus grow the brand. There are some branding essentials you should opt for in order to build a stronger brand. Below is the list of things you should do for branding:

Visual identity:

One of the easiest ways to make your brand stand out is by creating a visual corporate identity. This includes your logo, official website and stationery. A brand identity lets your target audiences know how your brand is distinct from others belonging to a similar industry.

Content marketing:

Create a voice for your brand through promotional channels, blogs, forums and tagline. Regardless of which side of the  B2C/B2B your company falls in, rich content gives your brand to create a dominant position and it will soon help you to become an industry leader. Hence, quality content matters.

Digital marketing:

Engage with your audience by setting up digital marketing campaigns. If you want to reach your customers online, you need to invest in social media. By creating an active presence on social media channels like Facebook and LinkedIn, you can reach targeted audiences with relevant information.

Customer experience:

Not just during the branding phase, but in the long term, what keeps the customers engaged with your brand is customer experience. By conducting online surveys and asking for regular feedback, you will be able to understand how your customers are experiencing your brand.

Video marketing:

Create video marketing content as it brings life to your branding process. A creative video can be about the glimpse of your company profile or products or work culture. Video is a powerful way to engage with your customers and puts your brand on a pedestal.

It is of very important that whenever you create content or planning to create a brand presence on a social media platform, make sure that you do create a social media plan.

Planning is immensely important is because it will help you set your goal of start and end both, it will keep you motivated to reach the desired level that you had thought before starting the marketing, posting without a social media plans will, unfortunately, make you realise that you are not heading in the right direction, that too very soon!

After research, it is said that eConsultancy services found that 41% of their response was received by 1,000 companies and agencies which had absolutely no idea of social media's financial impact. It is because most of the businesses don't know where they want to reach and take their brand. They don't even know what to track and measure.

That is why we suggest and plan out a series of goals and objectives of where we want to reach before posting anything on social media platforms, be it your goal of creating brand awareness, elevating your brand, boosting your business or anything, our marketing strategies would consist of planning.

This will also lead you to create a loyal image of the brand while boosting website traffic, it will also help you increase your customer and business engagement, which will automatically help you in creating a brand image that cannot be shaken easily.

Social media plan also redirects us to take a look at competitor analyses, it is important for us to know what our brand competitors have been doing to create their brand image, how active they are on social media? if there is something special they do to improve their image. This will also help you in the content planning, letting you brainstorm to come up with similar yet different ideas to gain attraction on social media.

Proper research on how they connect with their target audience is what we have to ensure to stand out from the crowd. With the competitor analyses, you can compare your page with theirs and try to understand what wrong have you been doing to not receive the kind of response your page should get.

Become a smart business person and apply these simple agenda's in your social media plan to understand and analyse your own performance on social media.

Apply SMART goals to win the game of social media marketing -

S: Specific

M: Measurable

A: Attainable

R: Relevant

T: Time-Bound

In this competitive age, brands are faced with challenges to redefine themselves, however, there is no shortage of ways to differentiate your brand. When it comes to branding, an effective strategy needs to connect with a new professional company. Futurescape Advertising can help your brand create a unique identity from the rest and shape a brand with sustained growth.