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Building your Brand with Copernicus

How would you like it if, when a  prospective customer sees your logo, your email newsletter, or your ad, and in a split second thinks, "Oh! There's that great company again. They have just what I need. I'm going to buy from them today."

Sounds good, right? It's what every company wants: brand recognition. And with a little effort, you can build it for yourself!
Branding your company, and then reinforcing that brand in all of your communications, will help customers recognize and choose you over all the competition. As a standalone project or part of an overall strategic review, Copernicus works with you to place your brand ahead of your competitors in the eyes, minds and order placing of your prospective customers.

What Is Branding?
 

Branding is the practice of influencing how people experience your company over time. This experience tells potential customers or clients who you are and what they can expect from you, and it sets the stage for how they will interact with you going forward.
To create a positive experience and feeling with your brand, you have to know two things:

1) Your target audience - Who is your best customer? What appeals to them? What are their pain points in relation to what you offer?

2) Your unique benefit - What is different, and better, about what you offer?

The answers to these questions will help you create a brand identity that you can build, grow, and sustain in your marketplace. Copernicus will focus primarily on how to build and represent your unique brand through design elements and the written word (your copy).

The Visual Identity of Your Brand – basic Copernicus guidelines

A strong brand requires a clear visual identity. From the symbol or logo you create to the color palette you choose, the visual impression you make needs to be unique and convey the character and personality of you and your company. Key design elements of your brand include:

• A logo - This is a must. If you don't have a logo, there are many companies on that will design one for you for at a very affordable price. We know some of the (affordable) best. We then pick a font and a font size for writing your company name and use this consistently in every publication.
• Colours - Your colours communicate more than you might think. We use warm colours for a friendly feel, cool for formal, and bright for bold and trend setting.
• Fonts – We work with you to select a font, or two at most for your text (one for your regular text and one for headlines, subhead, and sidebar copy) and stick with those same fonts for all of your communications. We use one that everyone has on their computers, such as Arial, Times New Roman, or Verdana, for the greatest readability (fonts can sometimes be substituted if your receiver's computer does not recognize your font).

The Tone of Your Copy

In addition to design, the tone of what you write communicates your company's brand. For instance, if you are a "friendly" company, then we use a casual, personal, and conversational tone in all of your communications. If you want to communicate your longevity as a firm, then we use a more formal tone to communicate thoughtfulness and to convey a sense of responsibility and security. Whatever tone you choose, we make sure it is consistent throughout all communications. Examples of tone include friendly, casual, formal, forceful, conversational, and inspirational.

Copernicus  Building Your Brand with Email Marketing

There are many marketing mediums you can use to build and support your brand. Our goal is to be consistent across all of them. Copernicus focuses specifically on building your brand with e marketing which you can apply consistantly to other mediums as well.
Here's a checklist we work through with you to build and create brand consistency with your marketing:

• Your logo on every communication, located in the same place each time
• The same colors on your website home page, printed documents, and email templates
• Embed patterns, designs, or images that appear in your website or printed collateral as backgrounds or highlights in your emails
• Use the same fonts as you use on your website and printed collateral
• We don't want your communications to always look exactly the same. Here are a few ways we create freshness while still supporting your brand:
• Use a new background colour in one of the top sections to distinguish your emails visually
• Use a new photo or image for each newsletter (within the theme you've set)
• Include one new font to help a sidebar or coupon gain attention
• Embed new copy, new headlines, and new subheads in each email

By establishing and reinforcing your brand as you create, sustain, and grow your relationships with prospects, customers, and other constituent groups, you will find that people recognize you more quickly, retain your messages more easily, and are faster to take action. Branding works, Copernicus is living proof!

For help guiding your brand to success contact us at info@copernicus-consulting.com