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Soccer Uniforms and Famous Brands

admin — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:22:57 +0000

webmaster socceruniform asked:

Aaaaaaaaaaah! Soccer uniform always charms to every soccer fan of its favorite team. Inspiring with their favorite teams fans wants to wear the same kit as their teams have and most fans decorate their room with the flags, bed sheets and towels of their favorite club team. There are too many Brands world wide which are making the soccer uniforms and other soccer gear. Fans who would not afford those costly wears, are buying cheep replica soccer uniforms.

If we talk about the popular brands who are making soccer uniforms, Nike, Augusta, Adidas, Dynamic and high five are the leading brands. These brands are also the primary sponsors of some soccer club teams and have the contract with the clubs for supply of soccer uniforms, soccer warm-ups, soccer shoes, soccer socks, coach soccer jerseys, coach jackets and player’s jackets.

Nike called as a top brand which is making soccer uniforms for the Top soccer club teams. There team are Manchester United, Barcelona, Liverpool and Chelsea. Nike is making Shits, shorts, socks, Under Armor cold Gear Mock, paramount beanie, jersey, long sleeve, soccer shoes, soccer balls and so many more. MERCURIAL VAPOR IV is a boot made by Nike which is worn by the deadliest players including Ronaldo and Didier Drogba, the mercurial vapor IV is one the lightest boots ever made. With maximum strength, comfort and movement, it’s a revolutionary boot designed to strike fear into opponents and leave rivals in its wake. MERCURIAL GRIP 3 a famous product of Nike used by Goal Keepers. Nike said “You’re in complete control. Extended 4mm contact foam combines full protection with subtle feel for handling. Grip 3 technology wraps contact foam around the critical pitside fingers for improved touch and new one-piece caps add stability to the two middle fingers.”

Nike is not only customizing soccer uniforms but its also making the shirts and shorts for the famous tennis players and football players. Beside all these famous brands there are so many Small businesses which are making the soccer uniform but not for the players rather it’s for their fans. Internet is full of shopping sites which are selling the best replica soccer uniforms in very cheap prices. Look around you, seems like every one talking about soccer. Soon the English Premier League will start. This will be an extra extravaganza for all the soccer fans. Fans start to buy their favorite teams soccer uniforms and soccer jerseys.

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23 Marketing and Branding Tips

admin — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:42:16 +0000

Intrigue Design asked:

Marketing 101: Develop a powerful and compelling core message.

“Say something, say it well, say it often.”? Why should customers buy from you? Why should they even take a second glance? You need to build a powerful message that gets key points across without clutter … because clutter is what leads to abandonment. Although this is the essence of a successful branding and marketing campaign, you’d be surprised how many companies fail to grasp this concept.

Make sure your core message is “benefit oriented.”?

People don’t buy services or products, they buy the benefits of those services or products. In all your communications, make sure your message translates into specific benefits.

Make sure your initial message directs prospects toward a specific action.

Your customers want to be told where to go to find the solutions they seek. This should be abundantly clear to all four major personality groups (Amiables, Drivers, Expressives, and Analyticals). When you invite customers to go somewhere to learn how to interact with your site and find out more about your company, you can greatly increase your potential for conversions.

Develop imagery that enhances your message and intrigues your target audience.

The images on your site should enhance your message by being visually stimulating. Sometimes this may only be an aesthetic; other times it may involve “timelining”? imagery and content together to use space more effectively and get across a message in a more distinctive fashion.

Develop a unique value proposition (UVP).

Sit down with a branding or marketing expert and define a UVP for your company as a reminder of your competitive advantages. Make sure these advantages are customer-centric, not business-centric.

Incorporate your UVP into all online and off-line media for brand consistency and saturation.

Make sure your message constantly reiterates your competitive benefits and your UVP. You never know which aspect of your brand a prospect might respond to, so make sure the message is consistently broadcast in whatever media you use.

Tell customers what they want to hear, not what you want to tell them.

We call this inside-out marketing. Too often, companies unknowingly focus on what they want to say, rather than what customers want to hear. An outside-in perspective with a true 360° view of your company from the customer’s viewpoint is best accomplished with the help of a qualified branding and marketing firm that can determine customers’ attitudes, expectations, and requirements.

Build value … not boredom.

I leave this one to Napoleon Hill: “It is as useless to try to sell a man something until you have first made him want to listen as it would be to command the earth to stop rotating”? (Think and Grow Rich

Lead with a header and close with a call to action.

Readers are much more likely to read your message, white papers, case studies, etc., if you pique their interest or curiosity through well-written headers, transition headers, body content, and calls to action that lead to the next step in a sales cycle.

“SCAN I AM.”?

Today’s readers don’t read, they scan. They scan for areas of interest, offers, links to relevant information, etc. So it is important to set up your text so that it can be quickly scanned. Online text is not linear like a book; it’s interactive to follow users’ nonlinear demands.

Develop a branding “blueprint”? that …

shows clearly how you expect prospects to interact with your messages. This blueprint should start with an outline and show all paths from all forms of communication and how they lead to firm sales. Again, marketing and branding professionals can help develop a plan.

Evaluate your plan. Have others evaluate your plan. Re-evaluate and adjust.

No plan is perfect, and any plan should be constantly adjusted to maximize its effectiveness. It is critical to continually audit your branding plan and all your marketing media.

Re-evaluate again.

Adjust your blueprint …

to adapt to the market, trends, technologies, customer demands, etc. Review quarterly. Every successful brand in the world is optimized regularly. Branding is an ongoing effort, not a one-time occurrence.

Use measurable tools to track prospect response.

Use online forms and phone logs to track responses from prospects. Capturing information via legitimate means allows you to re-market to this customer base and to see which forms, programs, tools, and salespeople are getting the best results.

Build a list.

Use online forms and phone logs to build an opt-in prospect list to serve as a powerful conversion tool. (See below.)

Re-market, re-market, re-market.

A customer may need to see a message more than five times to even notice it once! Keep your marketing efforts going … and going …

Don’t forget referrals!

Build a specific program to track, manage, and solicit referral business. We like e-mail campaigns and direct mail for this.

Up-selling!

Your existing customer base is your best source of more business. Develop a formidable plan to make sure your customers know what services you provide and that you keep your core and other related messages in front of your customers as often as possible. (It may take up to 10 forms of contact for a customer to identify with your brand) Remember, sell the benefits…not the service!

Use programs and tools to generate interest.

People like simplicity and packages, offers, and deals that are easy to understand and evaluate. By creating various packages or free tools for prospects to interact with, you can stimulate interest that may have waned otherwise.

Hit them from all angles!

It’s called shotgun marketing. A shotgun shell contains hundreds of tiny lead balls, increasing your chance of hitting a target. Marketing is much the same … the more media you use effectively, the better the chance that your message will be seen and remembered. There is no secret solution to marketing; it’s all about creating a total user experience across all platforms that projects your brand.

Use technologies and trends; they are your friends!

Using various technologies such as online bookings, reservations, response forms, PDF downloads, Blogging, Wikis, internal search engines, and newsfeeds can have a dramatic effect on your overall brand identity and on your marketing strategy in general.

Calls to action.

Calls to action are perhaps the most important aspect of marketing and advertising. After all, what good is any message or image if it doesn’t initiate an action that leads to a conversion? When developing a call to action, remember the four personality types and make use of available technologies to make compelling, interactive offers. You should have a unique call to action for each type of person who represents your customer base. For example … Visit www.intrigue-design.com to learn more about successful branding and to request a free evaluation of the effectiveness of your home pages.

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How to Brand Your Company to Hispanics

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:23:46 +0000

Ricardo González asked:

The power of the brand! A strong brand draws people. A strong brand allows people to trust you much more quickly than a weak or nonexistent brand.

Tres Preguntas (Three Questions.)

1. What do I mean by your brand?

2. What do I mean when I talk about properly branding your company to the Hispanic community?

3. How do you properly brand your company to the Hispanic community?

When you apply the answers to these three questions you can have good people waiting in line to work for you, recruit members more easily, and most certainly, make a lot of money selling products and services to Latinos.

Question No. 1

What is a brand?

Going back to the Old West, you can picture the cattlemen branding their cattle so they could always identify which animals belonged to them.

This is the origin of the term brand. In today’s world, a brand allows you as a businessperson to identify which clients are yours. More important, when a client is properly branded by you, they will identify themselves with you. A brand is not a logo or a logotype or a trademark. A logo is a word or a few words manipulated by a graphic artist who hopefully understands how to work with typography. (By the way, most don’t.) A trademark is the graphic that many times accompanies a logo, like the Nike Swoosh. That trademark is so strong they don’t even need the logo anymore.

A brand is not something you see, it is something you feel. It is, as Marty Neumier, says in his excellent book The Brand Gap, a gut feeling. Your brand is what people feel about you. A strong brand is what people feel about you and your company in their heart and in their gut. A strong brand elicits immediate trust and goodwill. A weak brand makes people think, “Mmm, maybe I should check out some other companies, or maybe it would be better to work for XYZ Co. than your company.

Companies with strong brands do not have to worry about their clients; they worry about how to provide their clients with better products, services and systems. Weak companies with weak brands are constantly looking for new clients and constantly looking for people who want to work with them. It’s called turnover.

Question No. 2

What do I mean when I talk about properly branding your company to the Hispanic community?

When you are properly branded to the Hispanic community, you don’t have turnover. In fact, you will always have the best workers and, very important these days, the best documented workers. Again, branding is how people feel about you; it is an emotion. Coca-Cola’s market cap, for example, presently is $120 billion. Of this value, $70 billion is attributed to the value of the brand, only $50 billion to the actual company products, services and systems.

How much is your brand worth to the Hispanic community? You want people to hear your company name and say, “What I would give to work there, or, if I buy products, I am going to buy them there. I trust them, what a great company.

Question No. 3

How do I properly brand my company to the Hispanic community?

This is the meat and potatoes question. Again, branding is all about trust. It produces a feeling in the soul that says, I can trust this company. It makes people think, “I feel good purchasing here (in person, on the web, on the phone) and I know I don’t need to check around. I can go to work for them with confidence.

The million dollar question is, “How do you get the Latino person to trust you, to see you and your company and immediately feel this sense of security and trust” The answer is simple, always keep your word. Never tell a Latino something and then go back and tell him or her you’re sorry but it just didn’t work out. For the most part, Latinos are fairly skeptical and non-trusting people. Information travels very quickly in the Latino society so do things right the first time. The Latino culture is very viral. Also, you must show a sincere and genuine interest in our people and culture.

I have in front of me several pieces of literature and handbooks that are handed out to Hispanic employees. They are literal translations from English to Spanish. This is not good branding. There are no visuals and the ones that are used are exactly the same as in the English manuals. To make matters worse, I also found several misspellings. This is probably due to having someone in the shop, or a friend, who is “bilingual”, but not a professional translator. This is poor branding and produces the gut feeling that the Latino person may be a necessity in your company, but he or she is not a valued person or client.

You must make adjustments. The Latino culture is different, the people are different, and there is a different way of thinking about information and life in general. Your marketing and branding initiatives should reflect cultural relevance and understanding.

In a nutshell, yes, logos, trademarks, color schemes, company T-shirts and all this good stuff can help with branding, but these things are not the brand. Perhaps they support the brand, but they are not the brand. The brand is the feeling of trust and confidence people feel when they hear the name of your company mentioned. This goes for people who work for you and for your clients. Without either group of people, you and I are out of business! If you don’t do it, then your company will always be worth less than half of what you think it’s worth when you look at your financial reports.

Just take a look at that branding giant, Coca-Cola. In this case, it really is the real thing!

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A Web-branding Blueprint for the Experience Economy

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:36:34 +0000

Jerry Bader asked:

Change is inevitable; as an economy matures, ages, and ultimately evolves into something new, adjustments must be made to our business development, marketing and branding. Failure to adapt to new realities results in potentially unwanted dramatic consequences.

We are all aware of how modern economies have grown from agricultural, to industrial, and on to the information-based, but where do we stand now? Is the information economy dead and if so what’s replaced it?

We need look no further than Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to see parallels between personal and economic growth in a sophisticated modern economy. The agrarian economy satisfied the first level of Maslow’s hierarchy by fulfilling basic physical needs like food, while the industrial age provided the goods necessary to satisfy a variety of concerns ranging from safety to social acceptance and status; the information economy provided answers to our cognitive needs, the desire for knowledge, but things have changed. The Web has disrupted business as usual: the effects on the music, film, television, newspaper, book publishing, and software industries, just to mention a few, has been not just dramatic, but traumatic. The adage, ‘adapt or die,’ has never been truer for business. So where are we now on the personal and economic pyramid?

Be All You Can Be

At the top of this pyramid is ‘self-actualization’ the desire to make the most of our existence and as the US Army’s slogan states to ‘Be All You Can Be.’ This is the central defining issue of the new economic reality, the Experience Economy.

Authors B. Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore state the issue of what business needs to focus on in this new economic era: “While commodities are fungible, goods are tangible, services are intangible, experiences are memorable and transformations are effectual. All other economic offerings have no lasting consequence beyond their consumption.” – ‘The Experience Economy: Work is Theatre & Every Business a Stage.’

Experiences are memorable and transformations effectual, this should be your new marketing mantra, your marching orders to fulfill what the market demands: to be all you can be.

Experiences Are Memorable, Transformations Effectual

What then does this mean: experiences are memorable and transformations effectual. In order to effect change: to turn website audiences into customers, marketers must deliver something more than commodities that are replaceable for a price, goods that are made irrelevant by technology, and services that are mere conveniences. The businesses that will succeed in this new experience economy are the businesses that will provide an experience and not just goods and services.

We are surrounded by examples of the experience economy both online and off. The growth of coffee giant, Starbucks, was not a result of great coffee but of the experience it provided to patrons, while online, iTunes satisfied the ignored needs of music buyers and Amazon did the same for book lovers. The Macintosh is finally gaining market share because the experience consumers have had with iPods has been so satisfying that they are now ready to bring that same satisfying experience to their desktops. The key to business survival is not a new feature or even a lower price, but rather an experience that satisfies the soul.

Experiences Satisfy The Soul

Traditional business thinking has lagged far behind the sophisticated psychological desires of the experience-economy consumer. Business schools have produced a cadre of bean counters and statistical idiot savants whose grasp of this new experience-driven economic reality has been outpaced by Web-savvy mavericks bent on delivering the essential emotional need of consumers to gain some measure of satisfaction in a hectic, demanding, frustrating world.

The Web is not without its own version of mindless number crunchers, selling the search engine optimization snake oil of Web-traffic nirvana. These new age carpetbaggers play on the conventional wisdom and comfort food of spreadsheet statistics. Like Texas Hold’em poker, you can play the math or you can play the man, and it’s the latter that generally walks away the winner.

The Six-Step Web-Branding Blueprint

The Goal: Transformation Through Self-Actualization

The end result of our efforts is to transform website visitors into customers but in order to do that we must take a step back. The experience economy demands a new way of thinking about your audience and exactly what it is you’re selling. Every marketing decision you make from now on should relate back to one simple priority: what element of self-actualization do you deliver? Find that element and build your marketing campaign around it. Forget price, quality and service; they are all discounted in the minds of a highly cynical marketplace bugged more than enlightened by heavy-handed old-school marketing presentations and methodologies.

Step one: understand your marketing goal is to transform your audience from unsatisfied cynical viewers into satisfied contented clients.

The Prerequisite: Expectation

Successful marketing is about creating a set of realistic, believable expectations that can be fulfilled by the offering. Almost daily we are bombarded by over-hyped, silly direct marketing Web-advertising that is structured to take advantage of consumers’ weaknesses, their desire to improve, to be the best they can be, and to gain some measure of satisfaction and relevance in their lives. Creating false expectations may lead to a onetime sale but not a long-term client.

Step two: create appropriate, believable expectations that you can actually fulfill.

The Product: Audience

One way of wrapping your head around this new approach is to think of your audience as if they were your product; you are transforming them from unsatisfied browsers to satisfied evangelists – that’s your job. You just don’t want to make a sale you want to make coverts, an army of satisfied consumers telling everyone they know how great you are. Getting people onto your emailing list is not good enough; turn them into believers and proselytizers.

Step three: the product of your marketing is your audience, turn your website audience into true believers spreading the gospel of your ability to satisfy.

The Methodology: Experience

Experiences are passed-on and reinforced by the strength of the story you tell. The Springwise newsletter has a perfect example of the strength of having a unique and interesting story. Emil and Magnus Gerbola of Denmark import Italian wine and sell it to wine bars, restaurants, corporate clients and consumers. But the experience of buying a bottle of Gerbola Vin is different from your usual trip to the liquor store. These two brothers, the sons of an itinerant Italian circus clown have set up shop in an underground candle-lit bunker built in 1942. What could be better than sitting with your friends enjoying a bottle of imported wine and entertaining them with the story of the circus clown’s wine merchant sons operating out of a World War II bunker.

Step four: enhance your offering with a differentiating story forming the basis of the unique satisfying experience you offer.

The Stage: The Web

Believe it or not there are still businesses that can’t quite grasp the necessity of using the Web as their marketing centerpiece. And then there are those that just don’t recognize that the Web is a multimedia platform, and not just a reservoir of digital brochures and catalogs.

The Web has multiplied the Paradox of Choice, the principle that the more choices you have, the harder it is to make a decision. As a consequence, websites must deliver well-crafted differentiating marketing messages using experience-generating multimedia Web-techniques.

Step five: the Web is no longer just a dumping ground of random information; it is a highly sophisticated stage for creating experiences through the delivery of entertaining, informative, compelling, and memorable stories.

The Vehicle: Video

There is just no better way to cut through the remoteness and isolation of the Web than video. And when we talk of video we are not talking about slide shows of still photos and bulleted points. Just because it moves doesn’t mean it’s effective. The way to tell your story and deliver your message is with a real person that can express emotion, emphasis, charm, personality and impact.

Step six: Deliver your marketing message, your unique differentiating story, your identity and brand through the clever and sophisticated employment of memorable Web-video.

A Final Thought

If you run a business you’re busy and that leads to a satisficing tendency to over-simplify, to reduce things down to an elevator pitch, to create meaningless mission statements and lists of bulleted points delivered by a boring PowerPoint slide show; unfortunately clients are complicated and business is complex, but Pine and Gilmore say it clearly in the title of their book, ‘The Experience Economy: Work is Theatre & Every Business a Stage’ or if you prefer just remember what old Will Shakespeare had to say, “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” If you want to be a ‘player,’ you have to learn how to effectively communicate with your audience through the power and impact of experience marketing.

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Pick The Best Machinery For Your Shop

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:22:32 +0000

Greg K. Hansward asked:

If you want to set up a woodworking shop quickly and easily, just find a distributor of Jet power tools. These top quality woodworking and metalworking tools are found at over 9,000 dealers around the world.

The unique feature of Jet tools is that they are not manufactured in only one place, but in different parts of the world, depending on what specialties the engineers in that part of the world are experts in. They use the best technology available and combine it with materials from specific regions that supply the best of that material.

Jet power tools are noted for their extensive selection of accessories for each tool. Their power saws have the Cyclone Dust Collector and the Parallel clamps, each of which make working with the power saw cleaner, easier and more efficient.

Jet backs all of their power tools with warranties and the many authorized Jet distributors will stand behind these warranties. You can have your Jet power tools maintained or serviced at any of the Jet service centers, which are located all around the world. There is never a problem with spare parts; replacement parts and spare parts are carried by all of these service centers and there is a $3million inventory of parts at any one time.

Jet is the proud recipient of many awards that are granted by the power tool industry. These awards are not lightly bestowed: contenders are compared on every quality and category and price range among all the brands around the world. Magazines that specialize in material for the woodworker, either professional or hobbyist, consistently rate Jet tools as the best brand in the market.

Knowing you have the best quality on the market is assuring, but the variety of tools that Jet offers also makes any job easy for the woodworker. The Jet lathe, the Jet table saw and the Jet Long Bed Jointer are the most popular power tools of the line, and the easiest and most convenient to use.

A specialized item that may interest a woodworker is the portable horizontal band saw. A small saw for big jobs, its light weight and portability make it perfect for bringing to a job site. Adjusting the blades to 45 or 60 degree angles makes it perfect for miter cuts. It has a bi-metal blade that makes it extremely durable and thus able to handle jobs that usually would require a bigger saw.

You can turn your horizontal band saw into a multi-use table saw by using the option floor stand.

Jet wants you to be able to get the most use and enjoyment out of their power tools, so each one of them has a training video in their training series called “Shopclass Series”. Your Jet distributor can provide you with the list of titles of these videos to help yo with just about any job.

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Top Brand in 10 Steps

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:45:20 +0000

michael asked:

CEO’s involvement in Brand Strategy

CEO of the company should lead the brand strategy and must be passionate about the brand. He should buy the idea of branding and live it despite the daily and stressful routine with many duties at the same time. There should be continuous development and integration of the new strategies for which CEO must be backed by a strong board management team of senior contributors.

Customize your Branding Model

You can not use “one size – fit all” rule to your branding model. Brand success lies in its authenticity and uniqueness. You can research other similar brands from the same industry and tailor them to meet your needs and requirements.

Involve Stakeholders as well as Customers

A fair amount of marketing budget can be saved by obtaining valuable information for the brand strategy from your customers, employees and stakeholders. They are easily accessible and probably the best source of information to get a picture of current business landscape including the current brand image and brand positioning.

Advance the Corporate Vision

Internal efforts play a key role in making a corporate branding strategy successful. Corporate vision should be advanced throughout the company. Management should involve, educate and align everyone around the corporate objectives, values and future pathway.

Use Technology as a Tool

Technology helps spread the word in a fast and more effective way. Every corporate working environment must have a well designed and fully updated intranet. The company must have a website to make all information available to customers and clients round the clock. The looks of the website should reflect the professionalism of the company. A company website should be as comprehensive as possible with wealth of information about the brand.

Involve People in your Brand

Every person connected to the company interacts with significant number of people totally disconnected to the corporation. They serve as company’s most important brand ambassadors. The word of mouth is extremely valuable and has a great impact on the overall corporate image. The most effective way to turn employees into brand ambassadors is to train everyone adequately in the corporate brand strategy (vision, values and personality etc.) and making sure they fully understand and believe what exactly the corporation aims at being in the minds of its customers and stakeholders.

Offer what is Promised

The corporate brand is the face of the business strategy and basically it promises what all stakeholders should expect from the corporation. Every customer should be handled with outstanding care according to internal specifications and outside expectations.

Communicate to Audience

Bring the corporate brand to life through a range of well-planned, well-executed marketing activities, and make sure the overall messages are consistent, clear and relevant to the target audiences. Make sure the various messages are concise and easy to comprehend. Do not try to communicate every single point from the corporate branding strategy. Instead, a selective approach will make much more impact using the same resources.

Analyze the Brand Performance

Analyze the value that brand provides and how instrumental it is the brand in securing competitiveness? These are some of the questions that need to be answered and that the CEO should automatically seek as part of a commitment to run the strategy successfully. The brand equity consists of various individually tailor-made key performance indicators (including the financial brand value) and needs to be tracked regularly. A brand score card can help facilitating an overview of the brand equity and the progression as the strategy is implemented.

Evaluate and Evolve

The business landscape is changing almost every day in every industry. Hence the corporation needs to evaluate and possibly adjust the corporate branding strategy on a regular basis. Obviously, a corporate brand should stay relevant, differentiated and consistent throughout time, so it is a crucial balance. The basic parts of the corporate branding strategy like vision, identity, personality and values are not to be changed often as they are the fundamental components. Instead changes should be small and involve the thousands of daily actions and interpersonal behaviors, which the corporation employs as part of the brand marketing efforts. But make sure complacency does not take root in the organization and affect the goal setting.

Strong brands are those driven forward by owners who never get tired of raising their own bars. They become their own change agents – and brand champions for great brands.

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Points to Remember for Successful Branding on the Web

admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:25:07 +0000

Steve McMains asked:

What is your favorite cellular service provider?Well,mine has been Hutch.I used Hutch for quite a long time.I liked it not only because of its great service but also because of its great ads. However these days I don’t use Hutch any more. In fact it is true that I remember the name rarely.

After Vodafone bought Hutch they changed the name.You can see just a change in the name can make such huge difference that people have started forgetting Hutch.Instead of calling Hutch they call it Vodafone.If you think deeply you will understand that it is not only a change in name.It is rather the elimination of a brand.

Yes,that is the power of branding.It can make or break a business in no time.So branding is very crucial.Brand exists in the consumer’s mind. Whether you own a big or a small business you have a brand.People have certain ideas about your company. You can not create your brand,you can only control it.

Successful branding depends on continuous repetition.You should reach your target audience and keep reminding them about your brand more than often.Whatever media you are using this is the mantra behind every winning brand.

One of the fast and cost effective medium of reaching your target audience these days is Internet.The web world has a huge audience. You can reach millions of people across the world at the same time.Unlike other mediums you can reach them 24×7. You can do this easily by making a good website.

Internet branding has several benefits.It can appeal to both the audio-visual senses at the same time.A good website combines relevant image and informative content which is a good way of earning the consumer’s trust.Your target audience can visit your site any time to get information or to buy something.

Making a good website is not really a big deal.Just follow a few simple steps and you will end up with successful online branding.

•    While making a website follow the search engine algorithm so that your site can rank high in search engines and people can find it easily.

•    Use relevant images and informative content.

•    Make your site interactive.Ask for customer feedback,query,suggestion etc.

•    Repeat the logo in every page of your website and keep the design elements same.

•    Make your site user friendly.

•    Understand the customer need. Make the site in such a way so that users can immediately find what they are looking for.

•    Publish newsletter regularly. This will help you to get in touch with your potential customers.

•    Brand your domain name by putting it on your business card,letter head,email signature etc.

•    Create free e-books covering topics that might help your target audience.

•    Publish articles worth reading. Put an URL of your site at the end of your article. It is one of the best ways that can be utilized for free publicity.

Internet branding is not that tough.Implementing these tips will enable you to achieve your desired result.

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Importance Of Branding With A Perfect Logo

admin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:43:50 +0000

Julia Raven asked:

You know how the old saying goes, ‘you get what you pay for’. It’s true, you get what you pay for. This rule applies to anything you spend your money on, no matter how big or small it is. When it comes to business, your main asset, which is your credibility is on the line. Since your credibility is at risk here, you should never hesitate to spend on the best products and services, which will benefit your business. Of course this does not mean you should spend more than your budget can handle.

The main objective of any business is survival, and in order to survive a business has to grow. The key to business growth is branding. The easiest and fastest way to grow a business is to create a brand name and better yet a business logo, which people will easily remember. A great example of superior name and logo branding is google. It’s rare finding someone who does not recognize the multicolored google logo.

Choosing an easy to remember name is the first part in branding yourself as a professional. Even more importantly you got to choose a logo to match the name. Getting a professional logo designed is one of the areas where you want to look at spending a good amount of money. Getting the right designer to do the right logo for your purpose can be expensive, but this should be considered as an investment in your companies future. The right designer does not always come cheap and you should be prepared for that.

The earlier you begin branding your company with a logo, the better chance you have of forming a highly recognized and successful cooperation in future. So the earlier you make such an investment the better. The reason why all of the big corporate giants spend huge amounts of money on designing a logo, is because they know that people’s minds work with images better. Having someone remember a picture is far easier than getting them to remember a few lines of writing. Now that you know this take advantage of it. Sooner or later you will beat your competition in your market area, and they won’t even know it.

We live in a branded world, if you ask someone what they would rather have a cheap leather bag or an expensive Gucci leather bag, you will be surprised that most people will go for the expensive one, not knowing that both bags are the exact same, the only difference being is that one does not have the name ‘Gucci’. The sooner you take action and start your campaign of branding, the faster you will be on your way to a highly valued and sought after business.

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What’s Inside a Luxury Brands-?

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:45:31 +0000

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HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//E–> What’s inside a Luxury Brands-?Introduction

A brand is a name more specifically, it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a name, logo and design scheme that convey the essence of a company, product or service. Brand recognition and other reactions are created by the accumulation of experiences with the specific product or service, both directly relating to its use, and through the influence of advertising and media commentary. A brand often includes an explicit logo,fonts, color schemes ,symbols and sound which may be developed to represent implicit values, ideas, and even personality. The key objective is to create a relationship of trust.

Luxury, derived from the Latin word luxus, means indulgence of the senses.

Luxury Brand

Luxury brands are brands whose ratio of functional utility to price is low while that of intangible utility to price is high. Such brands share characteristics like consistent premium quality, a recognizable style or design, a limited production run of any item to ensure exclusivity, an element of uniqueness and an ability to keep coming up with new designs when the category is fashion-intensive. Retail management company KSA Technopak estimates the market for luxury and high-end clothing in India at Rs 1,000 crore and for accessories at another Rs 1,000 crore. Many leading global luxury brand marketers have started taking our market seriously. It is estimated that by 2010, Indian consumers are realizing about the luxury brands.

How Different is Luxury goods’ Marketing & Brand building.

Luxury goods’ marketing is a different ball game as the type of customers involved fall in a different class altogether. These customers are influenced more by glamour and style and want to stand out in a crowd. They do not hesitate whey they buy a Louis Vuitton bag costing Rs 50,000 or Fendi accessories costing Rs.40000 & so on.

Managing luxury brands is as much an art and science. The challenge is to create a demand for something which is not really needed. After all, it looks crazy to spend Rs 50,000 on a handbag or Rs1,27,000 on a sunglasses. Creativity plays a key role in creating such a premium image. Many luxury brands achieve legitimacy and fashion authority as a result of the creative talent of their design teams who respect the brand heritage and yet continuously reinvent it. Brand-building is a different ball game in case of luxury goods. Fashion shows, special events, and other public relations efforts must be carefully coordinated to convey the desired image. The magazines selected for advertising are often unconventional and trend-setting. It is the kind of people who read them, not the numbers, which matter. The movies in which the brand appears and the celebrities and pop icons who endorse the brand must also be selected carefully. Traditionally, luxury brand retailers lack automation of transactions with clients. Using Software packages they can easily maintain the records and also leads to good customer relationship and also customer retention. Customers who buy an accessory like a belt or sunglasses today may purchase higher-value items tomorrow. one who buys a single item from one store may buy items of the same brand in other stores around the world. Customer databases enable owners to contact their consumers with invitations to collection previews, end-of-season sales and other events. Customer databases also ensure that even when salespeople leave, their knowledge is not lost.

Some of the points discussed so far are exemplified by the French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH . is a French Holding Company and is the world’s largest Luxury goods conglomerate. Louis Vuitton which owns several famous brands in various product categories:

Fashion and Leather goods (Christian Lacroix, Donna Karan, Givenchy, Kenzo and Louis Vuitton) Watches and Jewellery (TAG Heuer, Ebel, Chaumet and Fred).

Conclusion:

Luxury Brand is clear evidence that the super rich of the world, irrespective of which country they belong to, have similar lifestyles, tastes and aspirations. They want the best and the latest in fashion. At many big social functions today in the country, it is not uncommon to see women carrying Vuitton’s Theda or Monogram Ambre handbags. Developing luxury brands involves heavy investment of time, effort and money. That needs a different kind of mindset which is generally lacking in many Indian companies who look for quick returns. That is why there are few Indian luxury brands. But for those who are willing to take the plunge and wait patiently for the results to come, there is a pot of gold waiting at the end of the rainbow.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVMH Debashis Pati, ”BRANDING Concepts and Process”, Macmillan India Ltd.,2002 http://hauteconcept.com/2008/06/30/louis-vuitton-wins-ebay-ruling/

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Putting a Face to a Name: Developing a Company Brand

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:43:12 +0000

Johnny Albertson asked:

The business world is all about first impressions. If a customer likes what they see right away, they are likely to invest. This is what makes branding so important. Your brand is what consumers will initially encounter when introduced to your company. You want your brand to entice potential customers to dig deeper and further explore what your company has to offer. With any luck, they will like what they see!

How to Develop a Brand

Begin by identifying your target market. You branding strategy will depend heavily on this factor. For instance, you will choose different approaches depending on whether you are marketing to wealthy, retired men or adolescent girls.

The spending habits, interests, age, gender, education level, and many other factors will play into your branding plans. Similarly, your target market will also dictate where you make your brand visible. If a wide margin of you potential customers read the New York Times, you’ll want to advertise there. If they are a more tech-savvy bunch, making your brand well known on the Internet will become a priority.

Once you know who you are trying to speak to, you have to figure out how. Decide what makes your company unique. What distinguishes you from the other guys? Why should a customer come to you instead of the competition? It is in developing those unique selling points that gives a face to your company.

Perhaps it is dependability, innovativeness, or creativity that sets you apart. Regardless of what it is, choose a couple of stand-out qualities and focus on them in the branding process.

Getting Your Brand Noticed

There are several ways to make your brand known to customers. The two main methods are the visual approach and the verbal approach. Any company would be wise to utilize both.

The visual approach involves a specific look to your brand that will be recognized no matter what the context. The best way to do this is through a logo. While it is helpful to have several versions of your logo to fit into different promotional settings, it is essential that a common “look” is maintained throughout.

Remember: what the eyes see, the brain remembers. Whether it be an identifiable font or a memorable graphic, the visual side of branding has become increasingly important in our media-saturated culture.

The verbal aspect of branding is directly connected to the visual. Sometimes they are one in the same, other times the words appear alone, away from the established “look.” The wording involved in the brand becomes evermore vital when separated from the visual.

Choosing a good name for your company is part of the branding process. Be sure to choose a name that is descriptive. Don’t get too creative with made-up titles that “sound cool.” They might be pleasing to the ear, but they won’t be remembered by the brain. Whether a customer sees the brand name with your logo or in a newspaper article in plain text, they should instantly recognize it.

A tagline can also be helpful in bolstering the brand. Taglines should always be short and sweet. Something clever or catchy will stick in the memories of customers the same way an attractive logo will.

Marketing With Confidence

You thought coming up with a brand was challenging, now try maintaining it. A devotion to your brand displays a devotion to your customers. It also shows that you have confidence in your product. Consumers will perceive that confidence and subconsciously internalize a feeling of trust for your brand.

It is that positive gut-reaction that you want. A creative, confident brand is generally the face on a creative and confident company, and that is something any customer will notice and remember.

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