{"id":1163,"date":"2018-03-01T20:53:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testwebz.org\/creationmedia\/digitalagency\/uncategorized\/5-tips-building-brand\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T20:53:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:53:54","slug":"5-tips-building-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testwebz.org\/creationmedia\/5-tips-building-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tips for Building a Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Branding is important for all businesses regardless of size. A strong brand prompts high recall and allows a business to differentiate itself from the herd.<br \/>\nStrong brands also generally charge a premium so it\\&#8217;s worthwhile investing time and effort in building your company brand.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, said;<br \/>\n<em>\u201cYour brand is what other people say about you when you\\&#8217;re not in the room.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nWhat do you think people say about your company?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are 5 tips to help your business develop a brand.<\/p>\n<p>1. Branding is increasingly about the customer experience. With more and more service businesses a companies brand is being defined not just by logo\\&#8217;s and tangible touchpoints but by the customer journey. How are customers treated, was it effecient, was the customer.<\/p>\n<p>2. Super serve your customers. Adding value to any transaction is a great way to build reputation and encourage Word of Mouth referrals (amplified through social media). This could be something simple like a bridal shop giving brides a small bouquet (which is factored into the price) or free delivery<\/p>\n<p>3. Invest in external advice when creating your branding.<br \/>\nYour brand cues represent themselves in your marketing and are important to (prospective) customers<br \/>\nGet professional help and get the branding which accurately reflects your company.<\/p>\n<p>4. Know what problem(s) makes your customers contact your company for a solution. How can you communicate this in your brand and at which point in the customer journey? Know your customers.<\/p>\n<p>5. What is the most important thing you wish your business to be known for? Does this come across in your branding?<br \/>\nIf not work on the message until it reflects the primary thing your company does.<\/p>\n<p>Be passionate, don\\&#8217;t be afraid to show this in your branding and stand out.<br \/>\nLive your brand and be prepared to wait. Great brands take time<br \/>\nStart building yours today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branding is important for all businesses regardless of size. A strong brand prompts high recall and allows a business to differentiate itself from the herd. Strong brands also generally charge a premium so it\\&#8217;s worthwhile investing time and effort in building your company brand. In 2012 Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, said; \u201cYour brand is [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":229087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing-strategy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testwebz.org\/creationmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testwebz.org\/creationmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testwebz.org\/creationmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testwebz.org\/creationmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testwebz.org\/creationmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testwebz.org\/creationmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testwebz.org\/creationmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testwebz.org\/creationmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testwebz.org\/creationmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testwebz.org\/creationmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}