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Hub You - Why You? -- Professional Identity Branding
Logistics, asset management and inventory control are so important to any business. Whether you operate a point of sale business, a shipping center, or any business that ships or receives supplies or products, it is difficult to manually keep track of what is coming and going. Bar codes and automation save time, money and lost assets. This method, once fully implemented, can save thousands or even millions of dollars over a short period of time.You may think it will cost a bundle of money to implement a barcode system to control and track assets. This is not true. A barcode label printer is quite afforda
Branding should be part of your annual marketing/advertising expense budget. The Small-Bus
How do you measure the effectiveness of your advertising? Do you look only at whether or not you have had an increase in sales or enquires subsequent to the publication of an advertisement, or do you include product or brand awareness in your evaluations?The most suitable criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of advertising, depends on a number variables, such as the advertising goals, the type of media used, the cost of evaluation, the value that the business or advertising agency places on evaluation measures, the level of precision and reliability required, who the evaluation is for and the budget
As Robert Krumroy, Identity Branding, Inc. says: “Branding is about the customer--who has never met you--being able to answer the question: ‘Why you?’"
Your “Value Proposition”
Your brand can be based in large part on your “value proposition,” which is what differentiates you from your direct and indirect competition—and, if it’s good enough, will draw people to you.
Your value proposition should be a clear, concise statement of why your business is unique and a better choice. Your market positioning, competitive analyses and SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) gives you everything you’ll need to develop a value proposition based on your strengths, your competition, what your “ideal” customer wants from you, and how this benefits people in your markets.
This message must be delivered to your markets consistently and repeated frequently. If prospects understand what they need, trust you and connect emotionally with your message, sales resistance melts before your eyes. Yes, it’s that powerful!
My Value Proposition:
First Impressions, Last
Short-term, smart professional branding gives you the immediate recognition, market access and momentum you need to attract customers and build sales; long-term, it can help increase market share, foster customer loyalty, sustain your client-building efforts—and practically guarantee clients will eagerly refer you to others (“Hey, look what I’m part of! You should be too!”).
Branding should be part of your annual marketing/advertising expense budget. The Small-Bus
1. Put your attention getting message in the second quarter down the page. This is consistently the place where people look first.2. If you are going to use a picture, place it in the top quarter of the page, above the headline.3. Every advertisement should use the AIDCA structure; Attention getting message | Interest | Desire | Conviction | Action4. For a one page brochure stick to the AIDCA formula above. Make a concise selling story.5. If the boss insists on a multi-page glossy brochure make sure the front page includes the strongest customer benefit; and not the compa
Your “Value Proposition”
Your brand can be based in large part on your “value proposition,” which is what differentiates you from your direct and indirect competition—and, if it’s good enough, will draw people to you.
Your value proposition should be a clear, concise statement of why your business is unique and a better choice. Your market positioning, competitive analyses and SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) gives you everything you’ll need to develop a value proposition based on your strengths, your competition, what your “ideal” customer wants from you, and how this benefits people in your markets.
This message must be delivered to your markets consistently and repeated frequently. If prospects understand what they need, trust you and connect emotionally with your message, sales resistance melts before your eyes. Yes, it’s that powerful!
My Value Proposition:
First Impressions, Last
Short-term, smart professional branding gives you the immediate recognition, market access and momentum you need to attract customers and build sales; long-term, it can help increase market share, foster customer loyalty, sustain your client-building efforts—and practically guarantee clients will eagerly refer you to others (“Hey, look what I’m part of! You should be too!”).
Branding should be part of your annual marketing/advertising expense budget. The Small-Bus
Are you disorganized to the point of finding yourself spending more time trying to locate things rather than actually working?Typically at work there are probably two main areas that lead to a sense of complete disorganization: 1. Your deskIf you're the type of person who believes that how busy you are at work has a direct correlation to the amount of paper on your desk, you need to get this thought out of your head.Do you print out virtually everything that you come into contact with and then pop it onto a pile on your desk for future reference? Have you run out of space on y
This message must be delivered to your markets consistently and repeated frequently. If prospects understand what they need, trust you and connect emotionally with your message, sales resistance melts before your eyes. Yes, it’s that powerful!
My Value Proposition:
First Impressions, Last
Short-term, smart professional branding gives you the immediate recognition, market access and momentum you need to attract customers and build sales; long-term, it can help increase market share, foster customer loyalty, sustain your client-building efforts—and practically guarantee clients will eagerly refer you to others (“Hey, look what I’m part of! You should be too!”).
Branding should be part of your annual marketing/advertising expense budget. The Small-Bus
When you sell your time, you sell your life. You might as well be a slave or a mercenary – or an employee. You cannot get rich selling time unless you’re very highly qualified or a rock star or film star. That’s why most consultants and coaches experience peaks and valleys - “chicken or feathers” – their income is seasonal and they work harder and harder for less and less.When I meet with my Joint Venture Forum Members, I always tell them that they should have each Joint Venture they consider fit within the following parameters: “No time, no risk, no cost, win/win.” That doesn’t mean a Joint Venture won’
My Value Proposition:
First Impressions, Last
Short-term, smart professional branding gives you the immediate recognition, market access and momentum you need to attract customers and build sales; long-term, it can help increase market share, foster customer loyalty, sustain your client-building efforts—and practically guarantee clients will eagerly refer you to others (“Hey, look what I’m part of! You should be too!”).
Branding should be part of your annual marketing/advertising expense budget. The Small-Bus
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Branding should be part of your annual marketing/advertising expense budget. The Small-Business Administration advises entrepreneurs to use 5% of gross sales on advertising, but that varies depending on sales volume and location.
Everyone Has a Brand
“Everyone has a brand, like it or not,” adds John Melchinger, The Marketing Coach™. “You have one. It may not be the one you want and you may not be nurturing it, but it's yours nevertheless. Not to shape your brand rigorously and nurture it is to leave it to your public to decide. That is the much less effective alternative.”
Building Your Brand
The purpose of this exercise is to create a short message people will remember whenever they think about you. When part of a coordinated marketing plan, your professional identity brand will drive customers to your business. You will also need to give some thought to which medium to use.
Example: This is Joe Financial Advisor’s brand identity. It’s deceptively simple, yet sends a compelling message to his target market, Tool & Die Makers:
Insurance Solutions – Precision Business & Personal Planning
Why are we a Tool & Die Maker's insurance solution? Because we care and take the time to understand your unique needs.
Write your own message here:
Need help building your brand? Try this…
• Give stamped, self-addressed envelopes to 25 personal and business acquaintances.
• Ask them to write down how they’d describe you to someone who doesn’t know you or what you
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