Thursday, May 5, 2011

Choosing The Right Media Mix

By Gene Fink


Branding is no longer simply about visual appeal (or the cherry in the apple pie example, as given in my earlier article). Unfortunately, many graphic design firms who position themselves as advertising agencies believe that branding your corporate identity is all about developing great looking visual solutions.

Branding is more than just looking good regardless of what other would believe. Developing the right media mix holds the key to building powerful brand equity and particularly in the Internet era, a powerful web presence has become a vital ingredient of your branding strategy.

Keep reading to learn about the right media mix:

Enhancing your brand equity, attracting customers, and generating sales are the design, color, and content of your ads, marketing collateral and website and this is also known as creative design solutions.

In web development, every service or product worth its name has a web presence these days and to encourage customer involvement, some are truly interactive and animated sites.

It is the age of social networking, tagging, podcasting, blogs, forums, wikis, etc. and nowadays, viral marketing is vitally important.

There is also television commercial production and print media advertising and traditional media can't be overlooked.

Becoming necessary elements of roadshows, exhibitions, and other promotional campaigns are strategic films.

Corporate video production (a very important tool for branding your corporate identity)

In direct marketing, they communicate directly to the customer which is why marketing collaterals need to be just as effective and resonant with the overall branding scheme.

Outdoor advertising (hoardings, roadshows, participations in business fairs, exhibitions, etc)

There are some interactive advertising agencies that have recognized the need of the hour - developing creative design solutions that employ user-centric investigation and involve critical and systematic thinking. Understanding of needs and priorities of end user such as the clients' customers, their users, channel partners, and brand communities is what user-centric means.

You must develop a package that is complete if you want to register your brand as one that is synonymous with customer loyalty and the customer should be kept as the prime objective and organizing product stories as well in the way that they learn to prefer about, select and confirm packages, compare, connecting brands and their experiences.




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