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Branding USPs etc Its a Bit More Complicated Than You Think

Branding USPs etc Its a Bit More Complicated Than You Think

When you mention branding the really inexperience entrepreneur tends to think of their logo, whilst the business person who has read up a little thinks of their USP (unique selling proposition). The overall thinking tends to be that you slap your logo on everything, mention your USP a few times and you have branded your company! If only it was that simple.

Let’s start at the beginning. A logo is a graphic that is associated with your business – think of McDonalds “Golden Arches” or Nikes “swoosh”. That’s the easy bit. When you start to look at your brand it is also the colours and fonts that you use on your company marketing, advertising, documents and web sites. Do they all support your logo?

Your USP is that which sets you aside from your competitors, makes you memorable to your customers and uniquely identifies your company. A simple example would be Dominoes “Get the Door”. They were the first pizza company to deliver pizzas and are still remembered as such. The company’s years of experience and passion for delivering hot and fresh pizzas has earned it numerous awards and the loyalty of millions of pizza lovers around the world and this remains its USP.

Your company’s brand has to be visible within every single thing that your company does or produces. Your brand is the all-encompassing collection of business principles, business strategy, sales, customer relations, appearance, attitude, products, services, advertising, copywriting, Web site design, brochures…in fact your entire company.

Think about the greatest brand in the world for example – Disney. Think Disney and you think characters such as Mickey Mouse, films and Theme Parks. Then they are wholesome, family orientated quality producers. Is that their USP?

When you phone the Walt Disney Company you are greeted by a professional, friendly, helpful person. When you visit one of the Walt Disney World locations, the staff are helpful, the facility is clean, the environment is family-oriented and the accommodations are first class. So you trust them to be like this, you happily take your children to their films and Theme Parks knowing they will be safe and well looked after. If this was not the case, the Disney brand would have faded away many years ago. In fact they work very hard to maintain their image and brand. This is what you need to do.

When deciding upon your company brand image you need to consider the following:
• What do you want you want you company to be know for?
• What do you want your customers to think of when they think about your company?
• What do you want said about your company?

Give this a good thought and then write down a few sentences to describe your company brand. Now focus your promotional efforts, your USP, your logo, marketing plan and business strategy on this brand. Lastly train all your staff and set up your business processes to reinforce this branding and image and start building your business recognition.





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Lee Lister
(Visit Lee's Website) Lee Lister is a Business Consultant with more than 25 year's consultancy experience for many household names. She is known as The Bid Manager or The Biz Guru.

From an early age she began an unparalleled journey through business consulting that continues to span across the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. She has consulted for a considerable number of companies all over the world. Specialising in business change management, start up consultancy and trouble shooting. Lee's experience in marketing and internet marketing is also keenly sought after.

She is a prolific published writer of books, ebooks and articles and can easily be found on major search engine and Amazon. Her books include: FastTrack Bid Management, Proposal Writing For Smaller Businesses, How Much Does It Cost To Start A Business, Entrepreneur's Apprentice and a series of Start My New Business books that do as they say in the title!

Her major web sites are:
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