Branding: Build It and They Will Come. Optimize It and More Will Come

Build your Brand

“Build it and they will come.” This could be your branding mantra. Customers are looking for brands they can identify with. Customers stick with brands that share their beliefs and aspirations.

Give your brand a personality. Make sure that it has the right mixture of characteristics that appeal to your target customers. Jennifer Aaker, professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, summarized brand personality into five dimensions: sincerity, excitement, competence, sophistication, and ruggedness. This is known as the “Dimensions of Brand Personality”.

The value of a business is directly proportional to the value of the brand. If you want to grow your business, you need to build your brand. Building a brand is not just about having a nice catchy name, or using a clever sign, symbol or design to identify your products or services and to differentiate them from others. Building a brand means having a set of positive values or associations that resonate with your target customers. It is also about communicating these attributes to them.


Build your brand’s presence, relevance, performance, and advantage, until you have built a bond with your customers.

Why build your brand? Because research shows that 60% of your potential customers prefer to buy new products from familiar brands rather than switch to a new one.

Millard Brown’s brand pyramid shows how brand strength affects customers’ expenditure for that brand. The brand’s strength is inversely proportional to the “share of wallet,” or share of category expenditure. Brands at the initial phase of development (also known as “presence,”) eat up only 12% of spending for that category. On the other hand, those at the peak of the pyramid, or brands that have bonded with consumers, account for 40% of wallet share.

Optimize your Brand

Why should you optimize your brand? Because strong brands become more valuable over time, a study of 6 years of stock market data has discovered. Strong brands have more power to retain customers and acquire new ones, and have more amplification power—leading to the brand bandwagon effect.

So “Build your brand and customers will come. OPTIMIZE it and MORE will come!”

Invest in your Brand Today

No wonder marketers (yes, including your toughest competitors) are now focusing AND spending on brand building and optimization. Research shows that 63% of marketers plan to increase brand advertising budgets. 1 in 5 of these businesses plans an increase of at least 20%!

Here’s what that means: your leading competitors are spending a great deal on their branding while you’re ignoring it! Don’t do this to your business!

Build and Optimize your Brand Today. We Can Help You. How?

Web Design

We will build your website and design or redesign your logo if needed. Our mobile-friendly, responsive web design service will ensure that your growing number of mobile customers can reach you.

• 67% of consumers are more likely to buy if the site is mobile friendly • 62% of companies reported an increase in sales after designing a site for mobile users.

Social Media Optimization

We will perform Social media optimization to give your brand increased reach and engagement with prospects and customers. The more engaged your friends, fans, followers, and connections are, the higher the amplification factor to extend your reach and engagement further.

• 46% of online users count on social media when making a purchase decision

Create a buzz around your brand in your locality and niche with our local marketing services, which include publishing your promos. Promos get you the attention from leads and loyalty from existing customers!

• 78% of local searches using mobile devices ended in a purchase • 59% for PC and laptop searches using PCs and laptops ended in a purchase • 77% for tablet searchers using tablets ended in a purchase

Pay per Click Advertising and Remarketing

Target customers searching for products and services you offer on the major search engines, and drive them to your website instantly with our pay per click advertising service. Your brand’s visibility will increase while you only pay for clicks.

Online advertising, with record-breaking revenues of $42.8 billion in 2013, is now bigger than broadcast TV advertising, with $40.1 billion revenues. More people are searching online nowadays.

Bring it up a notch with PPC Remarketing. Ads will be displayed across the Google network of websites to your visitors who have not yet converted but have visited your website. Your banner ads will be all over the web, constantly reminding your visitors about your brand; enforcing brand awareness, recognition and recall, and again, while you only pay for clicks.

• Google’s Display Network reaches 90% of global Internet users

Online Reputation Management

We will manage your Online Reputation, address negative reviews, and make positive ones work for you. We will publish your positive reviews at the right places and bring down negative reviews on search results.

• 79% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations

Brand Booster

We combine the power of video and written content in our Brand Booster service. This is great for promoting and strengthening your brand online.

• 90% of global online consumers want brands to share content online • 96% of consumers surveyed found videos helpful for making online purchase decisions • 80% of business decision makers prefer to get company information in a series of articles • 78% of consumers believe that companies that provide content are interested in building good relationships

These are just some of the services that build and optimize your brand. You can learn more about the rest of our other services by contacting us for free consultation.

Take Action Now!

So… are loyal and paying customers coming your way?

Build your brand and customers will come. Optimize it and more will come. Contact us now to see how we can help build and optimize your brand today.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Inbound Marketing Content Skills for the Hands-on Hotelier

Video as a Life Science Inbound Marketing Tool

Brand Optimisation: The Future of Online Marketing