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Do your homework to ensure the chosen influencer is consistent with your brand's look, feel and tone. Before you can agree on your collaboration terms, you need to find the right   influencer . This means doing your homework to ensure the chosen influencer is consistent with your brand's look, feel and tone. You can start by learning what other companies are doing. Research your competitors and look at other brands that aren't necessarily competition, but share a similar demographic. Lastly, analyze the performance of your current posts and establish which ones are doing best and explore why. Once you've done your homework, get to learning! Ensure you and your marketing team know about the latest tools available on various social media platforms. Look at how several companies use them and implement this into your social media marketing plan. Now that you know what works best for your industry and brand, you can create the brief for your  influencer marketi

It's what every consumer should hear whenever and wherever they encounter your product or service. Each day, consumers are bombarded with a cacophony of brands. Taglines and slogans shout from TV, radio and the Internet; they vie for attention on store shelves and billboards. It can be difficult for consumers to make sense of the noise, and it can be even more difficult for brands to be heard. Brands with strong, consistent voices are able to stand out from competitors and connect with   consumers . Your brand's voice is what every consumer should hear whenever and wherever they encounter your product or service. It is the voice that drives all content, from marketing materials to   social media   and customer service. Who are you talking to? One of the first steps to shaping your brand voice is to identify the voice of your audience. If you're like many companies and have more than one core target audience, select an individual within each segment. Create p

These four companies manifest their brands in a way that is indistinguishable from their products or business activities. We are seeing a shift in what it means to be a brand and how to build your brand. From about 2007 or 2008 -- alongside the rise of social media as a mainstream technology -- we cultivated a mindset around building our  personal brands  (where the winners were the ones shouting the loudest). This in turn led us to reimagine business brands where the focus was on humanizing those brands. Brands evolved beyond the words and visuals to describe them and manifested more as “what we do, is our brand.” In recent times, this evolution has continued as brand building has focused on greater authenticity, transparency and empathy. This evolution has been  inspired   by consumers who have become more demanding of the businesses that supply them of products and services. Gone are the days where branding was considered a marketing activity purely for the benefit of th

Use these steps to get your branding identity back on course to projecting a clear and concise message. With so much content flowing through an organization, from ad campaigns and branded marketing materials to digital media content and social media updates, it’s easy to see how a company could get a little lost while trying to maintain a consistent brand identity. Multiple people creating many branded elements can make it difficult to keep things aligned. For both big corporations and small business, it can be easy to veer off course, sometimes without even realizing it. The lack of consistency may not be noticeable at first, but failing to identify and stick to a consistent brand identity can eventually have a negative impact. The brand can become disjointed, unreliable and divided so much that it confuses customers, clients, employees, and even the executive team. So, if you feel like you’re starting lose the identify of your brand throughout your organization, use

Grow your business with these simple tips. Do you have a favorite lunch spot? Maybe a cafe that once made a great impression on you? If so, that's the power of branding at work. Your brand image is often the difference between having a lifelong relationship with loyal customers and never being discovered at all. But, building an amazing brand doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time to figure out how to reach your audience in the most effective way possible. By following these simple (but often ignored) steps, you’ll develop a better understanding of what your customers want and how to exceed their expectations. 1. Focus on storytelling, not product features Without a good brand story, your product holds no inherent or emotional value for your customers. As author and story coach  Lisa Cron  tells us, humans are hardwired to respond to stories. When a brand makes a deep impression on us, it impacts our buying behaviour. A  2013  Psychology Today  piece  showed that, w

For the last five years, Apple held on to the title of the world’s most valuable brand. Then this year, the iPhone maker lost the top spot to Google, according to consultancy  Brand Finance’s Global 500 rankings . As Apple’s brand value tumbled 27% to $107.1 billion in 2016, Google’s increased to $109.5 billion. Amazon, with 53% brand value growth, was close behind at $106.4 billion. Image: Brand Finance Global 500 2017 Eight of the top 10 brands on Brand Finance’s 2017 list are American, reflecting the global dominance of US brands. So where does this leave the rest of the world? Visualizing brands as countries Using Brand Finance’s ranking, cost information website  HowMuch.net  has taken the most valuable brands in selected countries and turned them into a map. Each country is sized to reflect the global value of its biggest brand. After Google, the next most valuable national brand is South Korea’s Samsung, which is in sixth place on the Global 500 list at