Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Brand before Design

By Matthew Henage

Not Many Know What Branding Is

Very few understand the profitability of branding, let alone know what a brand is all about. A profitable advantage is available because of this confusion, because it is an extra lead on your competition. Branding is not about having your business being known around world, nor is it designing a cool a logo and tag line. Although a logo and tagline are important methods of displaying a brand image and finding world fame usually results from well conceived and executed branding, they are not branding.

What is Branding?

Branding is giving your potential customers enough evidence for them to make a quick but lasting character judgments about a person, product or organization. Because we are human, we like to make quick judgments about things based on tangible evidence. If your tangible evidence leads to positive judgments about your business, your branding was successful. If the tangible evidence leads your customers to make negative judgments about your business, your brand is bad.

Your Brand is very Important

Your business will be judged by the way it presents itself. And if you don't take the time to figure out how to present your brand image appropriately, you may end up with a dissatisfied audience. Don't leave these things up to chance, take the time to establish what your brand image will be and how you will portray it.

Branding your Website

Because branding is about building trust with your customers, it is vital that you keep that trust. If you want your audience to believe that customer care is important to you, then customer care is a must for your business. The more consistent you are with your brand, the more your audience will believe you. The better they believe in the qualities of your business, the more likely they will purchase your products and services.

Branding is especially important on the web. There is a major disadvantage to not having human interaction with your audience, but this disadvantage can be neutralized with a well conceived and powerfully implemented brand image. - 16928

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