2011年12月1日星期四
Body Branding is a cost effective matter
Create and manage your business brand by focusing on performance, reliability and consistency. You have to meet the needs of your customers first and foremost.What is the most important aspect of branding for any business? Certainly it is essential for all, whether high street retail or home business, to have an effective and coherent strategy in place for branding, but when it comes to putting that into practice, which aspect is of critical importance?Advertisers are always trying to think of new ways and new places to display company logos. Now there’s a new advertising medium to throw in the mix: people’s bodies. Remember the 20-year-old Nebraskan who auctioned off his forehead on E-Bay for a month’s worth of advertising space? The winning bid went to Snore Stop, who paid $37,375 to put their logo on the web designer’s face for 30 days; got quite a bargain for all the exposure they received. Consider it this way: a full-page ad for one day in the Wall Street Journal costs more than $23,000. One full-page ad in American Idol: The Magazine costs $45,000.But here’s an interesting tidbit about a woman who is yet to receive payment for literally branding herself with a company logo. The logo placement occurred when a 27-year-old woman fell off her skateboard in Manhattan onto a manhole cover that was searing with heat. The hot metal, which is located over a steam pipe, burned the woman just above the buttocks and on her left arm with part of the Consolidated Edison (Con Edison) logo, a New York utility company. The woman said she heard her skin sizzling and saw and ‘O’ and ‘N’ etched in her skin, according to an article on allheadlinenews.com. The scarring is permanent. The woman has sued Con Edison for negligence, carelessness, recklessness, and culpable conduct. No word yet on how much Con Edison will have to pay for the partial advertisement.There are, of course, many aspects nail tips to building and marketing a successful business, and in a world which faces such rigorous competition, getting your business message right is an essential ingredient in achieving success. All too often, however, small business owners or managers see branding in a very flat, two-dimensional way, with little regard for some parts which are perhaps more crucial than others.For example, a huge number of business owners and managers take great care and trouble over aspects such as the logo and brand image. Paying graphics designers large sums of money to create striking logos which represent the company, they end up paying hundreds if not thousands more for stationery which includes the brand image all across it. They then make sure their website carries this same brand image, color theme, font styles and logos. These all help build up your business brand. However, surprisingly, none of these make a very great deal of difference when compared to certain other aspects which ultimately carry far more weight. The first step is to consider what your business stands for. This is not the same as thinking about what your business does, or attempts to do, or achieves best. Standing for something implies having fairly strong, defined opinions about certain aspects of business. The next stage is to decide what it is that your business does well. It is increasingly necessary that for any brand to be successful it must fulfil a niche market, or have an edge over the competition. With a wider choice than ever before, most clients or potential customers are looking for specialist suppliers - experts within very defined fields, rather than businesses that specialize in nothing and manage Wholesale China to achieve almost everything to a mediocre level.
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