Building Your Business Brand in a Competitive World

Business Brand-Chispa MagazineToday, regardless of what your market is, there is more competition in it than ever before. This is because there are now more businesses than ever, and they all need to be vying for attention if they’re to stand any chance of getting the custom they need to survive. So, there’s no use sitting back and moaning about your competition or another business encroaching on whatever it is you do—instead, you should adapt and then build your business brand accordingly. To see how to do so, despite how busy your market might be, make sure to check out the advice below.

Find your own marketing niche. Some forms of marketing work better than others depending on the type of business, and it’s important that you find the one that works for yours.

To find your niche, you should test yourself in a number of different marketing areas, such as cause marketing or digital marketing, in order to discover which one you get the best results from. Working to your strengths is key if you want to draw custom away from your competitors, as this will help you to stand yourself apart from the crowd. Something else that you should be doing is actually researching this crowd, or more to the point your direct competitors, to see what is and what isn’t working. Once you know this vital information, you can guide your campaigns in the most fruitful direction possible.

Don’t dismiss the basics. If your competitors are constantly seeking new ways to market themselves, does that mean that the old ways are forgotten about? It most certainly does, and that gap should be something that you seek to take advantage of in your quest to build your business brand.

This means never dismissing all the ways of advertising that have proven to work in regards to customer acquisition in the past, such as email marketing. This has long been and still is a crucial form of lead generating when used correctly, and the fact that businesses are now dismissing it only gives you a chance to tap into it even more and find even more success with it as a result. Email marketing is crucial because everybody checks their emails frequently, and generation services make any email address reachable in only a few clicks—missing out on the chance to tap into such a market would be criminal!

Try something different. That being said, you should still be trying new, different and unique things when it comes to brand building, as taking a risk in this way is the only way you’re going to garner large amounts of fresh attention.

To stand any chance of doing something unique with your brand, today, it’s vital to utilize the internet to your advantage. One way to do so is to use Instagram grids to create photo conglomerates of all the things that you offer, and another is to go live in videos that are watched by your customers. Basically, it’s about doing things that will draw traffic towards you and away from your competitors.

Something else that you should be doing is allowing potential customers to leave you with something to remember you by, and, no, this shouldn’t just be a pen or a business card! You should be handing out gifts that show you are willing to go that extra mile to impress people, such as commemorative coins or tools that come in handy—in regards to the former, you can learn more at ChallengeCoins4Less. When you hand out gifts of this magnitude, you give yourself a chance of staying in the customer’s eye far behind them leaving your premises.

Always think long-term. Many of your competitors will never get anywhere with their brand because they do not stand the test of time with it. They may have a few good months where they seem to be on top when it comes to customer drawing and lead generating, but without a long-term game plan, they will, eventually, fail. This is where you can benefit if you are yourself willing to think in the long-term.

Importantly, this means only ever aiming to forge long-term relationships with your customers. To do this, you should always be working towards being honest and trustworthy, and never making promises that you can’t keep. You should be clear when it comes to defining who you are and what values you work by.

Pay attention to your color palette. Visual imagery is crucial when it comes to brand building, and color plays a pivotal part in establishing a strong vision. You have to pay attention to the palette of color that you work with, as this will be just as recognizable for your customers as your business name and logo are.

Your palette should be one that never comprises itself or changes heavily, as doing this would disassociate a lot of what has already been associated with you in the eyes of your customers.

Be yourself. The most important thing that you can do as you seek to build a brand in a world full of competition is to be yourself. When you mimic the look that other businesses have, especially the big brands or the chains, you stand yourself no chance of drawing customers that like to bring their custom to businesses with identity.

To stay true and authentic to yourself, you have to be willing to continue on the path that you choose to go down, no matter how many customers may be more attracted to going down other paths. Mimicking others might seem like what you need to do attract a certain type of customer at the time, but it’ll only ever see you fade into the background eventually, and without your integrity intact to boot.

Your brand can stand out from the crowd, no matter how crowded this crowd might be. To ensure this to be the case, you just have to make sure to take all of the advice above into account when you come to building yours.

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Mia Guerra

Mia Guerra

Executive Editor at Chispa Magazine
Executive Editor at Chispa Magazine, Mia Guerra is a writer at heart. Regardless the topic, she loves to investigate, encourage, and ruminate on topics that can make us better people. Aiming to live a Proverbs 31 life, Mia is ecstatic to be following her calling with Chispa. At home she is her husband's sidekick and together they are raising a God-fearing family in Atlanta.

Mia Guerra

Executive Editor at Chispa Magazine, Mia Guerra is a writer at heart. Regardless the topic, she loves to investigate, encourage, and ruminate on topics that can make us better people. Aiming to live a Proverbs 31 life, Mia is ecstatic to be following her calling with Chispa. At home she is her husband's sidekick and together they are raising a God-fearing family in Atlanta.