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5 Smart Ways to Build Your Brand

Written by Fariha Muazzam ·  1 min read >
5 Steps to build your brand

After having shared 5 tips on successfully naming your brand, we bring to you 5 smart ways to build your brand.

On the out, entrepreneurship and setting up your own company would seem like an easy task. You would think that having the money or the investors is enough, but it is not. Setting a place for yourself in the business world requires tactics and well-thought of strategies, because penetrating the market and making a mark determines your position there, while skillful manipulation of circumstances and market’s demands to your advantage is reciprocal to the lifespan of your brand.

1. Connect With People
The thing that matters the most for your business’s success is the first thought that comes to people’s minds when your brand name pops up somewhere, because that will determine the number of customers that you will have in the days to come. Having a story behind your brand; something that people can relate with and keeping them involved like they are a part of it, is the golden rule of emotionally connecting with your audience. Like CocaCola has done it with their recent, ‘Share a coke with..’ advertisement campaign. It has been hugely successful among masses; everybody is busy getting their own personalized coke bottles.

2. Know Your Place
You need to identify what kind of customers you attract the most, because that is your initial customer base. Before expanding that base, strengthen the present one. Target your brand towards fulfilling consumer’s demands and needs.

3. Don’t follow-Be Original
If you do not want your brand to be overshadowed by all the big names in the market, bring something new to the place. With multinational brands or even big national brands, innovation really fades away with time. Most of them keep on doing what they have been doing for years, so for your brand to be recognized it has to offer something different. People will not run after something that another well-known company has been already providing since years.

4. Use Social Media
Publicity is very important to get to the masses and social media plays an important role in publicity and marketing. Today, teenagers to middle-aged people use more social media than television. Every brand has a Facebook page and a Twitter profile, because these social networking sites are where the world gets to know the world. If you want global or wider reach; social media is your place to successfully publicize your brand/company.

5. Have An Effective Team On Your Side
As long as you have a hard-working and loyal team, it would be easier to face everything that comes your way while climbing the stairs leading to success. You need people who are self-motivated and determined enough to go through the pains of setting up the foundations of a newborn business.

Also Read: Are You an Effective Team?

Written by Fariha Muazzam
She likes to explore new areas of study whether technology, psychology or anything thing else; nothing more and nothing less. Profile