Creating Brand Awareness

Your brand is about more than just your logo design, though the two are intrinsically linked.

Your 'brand' is how you are perceived by customers. Your logo design is the visual representation of your brand behaviour (which is what creates their perceptions), and that behavior becomes linked to a visual image; your logo design.

Effective branding, and indeed your logo design itself as the icon representing this branding, will give you the edge over your competitors.

Although most small business owners don't have millions of pounds at their disposal for expensive worldwide branding campaigns, they do have other affordable methods are their disposal to establish a brand and in turn benefit from” the perceived 'value' of that brand.

Customers are willing to pay more for the goods and services of 'brand name' companies, and you will have a good base to work from at point of sale if the customer has heard of your company before, can remember seeing your logo design before, and thus already has an element of in built trust up.

Having a high quality logo design for customers to visually link to your brand behavior also allows you to more easily introduce new products and services to your target market - the company itself will be pre-sold based on their memory of their previous dealings with you (or your reputation), and it will simply be a matter of selling the new product or service under the same or similar logo design and brand image.

Building a brand is about strategically building customer loyalty over an extended period of time, through repeated exposure to good brand behavior in conjunction with the imagery that sits alongside that behavior.

Read Some Casestudies of small businesses building a brand name

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Have an ethos

Decide on your core values and what sets you apart from the competition, your values should be based on research of your target market - you should know what your customers want and ensure you deliver it each and every time.

Once you have an ethos ensure that you and your staff reinforce it with everything you do and say, prove to your customers that you can be trusted to stick to your ethos and that they can always rely on your company to provide this particular quality of products and/or service.

Create a company logo design

Your logo design is not your brand, it is just another very important method of underlining and reinforcing your brand image, it is a symbol that enables you to be recognised instantly by those that are familiar with your brand.

The logo design should be used consistently on a variety of media, and should be suitable for all forms of marketing, website, stationary, promotional items, signage, it should always look the same so that it can become synonymous with your brand and instantly recognisable.