Posts Tagged ‘branding’

How to Build Brand Loyalty and Own the Marketplace

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

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There are countless new marketing tools and online advertising practices that enter the marketplace on an almost daily basis and it can be fairly easy to get sucked in. You must avoid the temptation to try out every single one of these new approaches! You need to build brand loyalty for your company in order to achieve your business—you can’t build a sturdy brand upon a foundation made of different materials. The consistent provision of value and information online is one of the simplest, yet most effective ways of building an unbreakable brand. Have you ever liked the taste of something but didn’t like the consistency? The same can happen with your business marketing—maintain a consistent marketing message at all times!

Keep your marketing simple and hand pick just a few different marketing tactics to get you started. Once you get some killer ROI coming in, then you can reinvest some cash into your company and wave your magic marketing wand in a few other areas. Stay organized and you will stay within your budget. A chicken with its head cut off looks silly on a farm and in the marketplace—maintain composure through a highly targeted and efficient marketplace. Get back to basics and keep your head with two simple marketing techniques: article marketing and online forums.

Online Forums Make Credit-card Bearing Friends

By creating an online forum for your business you will achieve greater control over your marketing message. Your forum will eventually build up to a microcosm of valuable information for prospects and monitored feedback, questions and comments from your visitors. This controlled environment allows you to maintain consistent communication which builds a sturdy brand. You’ll also increase your exposure as any type of open information and idea exchange enjoys a higher propensity to be talked about and shared with outsiders, bringing more people into your inner circle.

Now, we’re not suggesting that you take on a massive propaganda campaign and dupe your prospects. Just give them enough information and value points to answer their questions and even entertain them—show them where the water is and they’ll soon be lapping it up. (Check back later for details on how to set up an online forum for your business.)

Article Marketing Leads to Lucrative Business Loyalty

Regular article submissions allow you to stay connected with your current client base and build brand loyalty. As soon as you let your guard down you’re susceptible to other companies swooping in with a value-added wedge and taking your clients. A consistent marketing message creates confidence in your prospects. As an example, consider listening to two public speakers. The first speaker constantly shuffles their notes, groping for the next point to address throughout their speech. The second speaker maintains an even flow throughout their entire speech. Which one do you give greater credence to? The same goes for your target audience—they’ll give their credit card number to the company with consistent flow over the note-shuffling guy every time. Consistent content is the king of kings!

Don’t Just Make Money, Save Money

It can be extremely exciting thinking of how much revenue you can bring in with all the latest marketing tools, but it can also be quite dangerous for your budget! By pulling back on the reins, limiting the quantity of marketing avenues you travel down, and establishing solid consistency with your business, you will avoid going broke. It will help you get the most out of your budget since you’ll be building off of your previous efforts instead of essentially starting over again each time you take on a new marketing venture.

To your success,

Andrew Rossillo

Andrew Rossillo is Content Crooner’s Marketing Blogger and Staff Writer. He’s ready to put his years of copywriting and online marketing experience to work for your business—he’ll help you get noticed!

I’m So Totally Blogging This – How to Build Your Personal Brand

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Have you ever read a book more than once? Usually, the second read is just as interesting even though you already know what happens.

One reason for that is because now you know the characters. The first time, the opening chapters may not stick much since you are busy learning their traits. But the second time, you notice things you didn’t see before. You make connections.

Blogs are similar. Develop the character, whether fictitious or simply yourself, with each blog post. Let the reader learn a little more about your personality.

This, in turn, becomes your personal brand. What makes you stand out from the crowd? What is your “thing”?

If you have a “thing” in mind, focus on building upon it with each new blog post. Success doing so makes you more interesting. With the huge amount of other bloggers in your niche, you’ll do well to be known for something.

Now, how do you build your personal brand? You must possess the ability to translate your attitude into words. An effective writer puts their “energy” into whatever piece they are writing. Readers feel what the words don’t say and this intangible effect is just as important as the literal message.

The primary focus of your blog is: your attitude. Whatever type of brand you’re going for, you will destroy it with a bad attitude.

You may be very knowledgeable within your niche and give good information, but if readers feel you have a bad attitude, perhaps even a complaining one, they may be turned away. Good content is helpful content; and “helpful” is easily associated with other positive qualities. Your content, and your attitude, must be positive.

The next logical step, is to be human. Be real. Real is believable; it is genuine. Share your interests, your opinions and your experiences.

Relationships are based on connection. Give readers something to connect to. If you want a rapport with clients, readers, or just an online presence, make it appealing.

A robot may be programmed to perform a task, but only humans have passion for it. If others don’t feel your passion, your human-ness, there is no connection. And it’s already proven what power emotions have in the marketplace.

An extension of being human is having fun. No doubt you enjoy what you do, otherwise you would change it.

It’s quite possible you took the leap of developing your personal brand because of the unenjoyment of past employment. You might as well spread the enjoyment around.

Being social will take you places, as will reciprocity. But don’t look at being social as a business transaction, a sort of “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours followed by a handshake.” Enjoy it!

Get out on the web, blog, tweet, be passionate and live. The world is your playground, and always remember that your personal brand is you. Recommend your brand through everything you do.

Peace, love, and traffic,

Taylor Vogt

Taylor Vogt is the Review Team Manager at Content Crooner, a quality content distribution service. He is also working on his upcoming Internet Marketing website Empowerous.com.

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