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Your Brand is more than your Logo

Your Brand is more than your Logo

Your logo represents your brand, at least a significant portion of it. Yes, a great logo is right for your brand, but so are other factors that together form your corporate identity in the world of sales and marketing.

A brand identity is much more salient to survive in the crowd. If asked, what is a brand, most people address their brand logo or utter their brand tagline. But the brand is much more than that, and people need to realize it. A brand is much more than a logo or a name or any tagline.

In the market of thousands of commercial commodities, a successful brand stands high and tries to grab attention. And to touch the peak of success, there are certain mandatory hard works involved. First, every entrepreneur must perceive the concept of branding. A substantial, vibrant logo does not always work.

When you are creating a brand, that means you are also forming a relationship with your clients. Your brand must connect with your clients. Therefore, your brand has to be meaningful, with an understandable purpose and it’s own unique feature(s). Remember, your brand represents your business purpose.

A brand comprises various traits like logo (obviously), font, color, typography, pattern, texture, all of which together forms an identity. You have to understand who your customers are and their field of interest. You have the power to create your own story, your own identity.

To create a successful brand identity, you must focus on a visual-friendly logo, color palettes, style, imagery, typography, etc., and much more.

  • Logo: Logo is the visible element that provides your brand with a professional shape. It is the first thing pop-up while looking into any brand name and creating an eminent brand identity. It is merely a symbol that helps in brand building and marketing. That’s all! For example, a healthcare organization uses a subtle logo or orthodox box type logo for its healthcare marketing. They won’t use any zig-zag, sparkling logo for their organization. You have to think of designs that justify your purpose of business.
  • Colors: Colors add a glance to your branding. Using such subtle tones will add an extra pillar of success to your brand name. And the mixing of high vibrant hues will make the brand name look gaudy.
  • Typography: Font style and size does matter. Typography captivates the customer’s first impression, either positively or negatively. Experimenting is fine, but try to finalize something that goes well with your brand and does not look overflowing.
  • Imagery: Want to construct a unique and reliable impression on your customers? Consider professional, quality images to add up some spice to your brand because the best quality images increase the brand visuality and brand persona.
  • Texture and Design: Adding minimal texture and motifs to your brand design will highlight your brand name and never go off-track.
  • Tagline: Tagline is a phrase of words that condense the brand identity within customers. For example, everyone remembers the brand Nike by its tagline, “Just Do It.”
  • Mission: You must have set up a brand vision and mission while dealing with brand design. If you are seeling cars, your brand design or brand identity must be focused on none other than cars. Without a focused mission and vision, your brand credibility is zero.
  • Commitment: Brand is nothing less than a commitment. When you are coming up with a service or product, you are committing yourself to your brand. Sticking to your commitments will increase your product demand on the market.

As mentioned above, branding is making a relationship with your customers. Also, the relationship with your prospective customers does not form overnight. It is a time-consuming process. Once formed, stick for a more extended period, and become healthier over time. And to acquire this result, one must plan effective marketing strategies like Deck pitch, Chatbot, Net Promoter, collaborating with micro-influencers and marketing with influencers, etc. An effective marketing plan also boosts up your brand image, brand positioning, brand development, and brand building for entrepreneurs, as well as existing renowned brands. Let us tell you how you can improve your branding by following such progressive marketing strategies.

  • Micro-influencers: Micro-influencers or called Social media, influencers with thousands of supportive followers, are responsible for changing or influencing his/her followers’ lifestyle. Influencer marketing or marketing with influencers is unique, authentic, and result in an oriented marketing procedure. You can easily cope with your brand image and spread your brand awareness and brand image among a hefty mass within a brief period. They are the connector between the brand and clients/customers.
  • Micro-influencers promote your collab product or service in their social media handles with a brief description, the fair use of tone, and manipulate mass to purchase the product or service. Collaborating or marketing with influencers helps a brand reach among a huge mass, develop significant exposure to the brand identity, and increase sales. In simple words, Micro-influencers has special boons to crowned you with triumph.
  • Deck pitch: Pitch deck or Deck pitch, a type of modular book or presentation deck to incline business idea, sales, allotment of shares, business assets, etc., in front of a colossal number of audience. It is also called Confidential Information Memorandum. The overall company description and financial records are being mentioned in this marketing book. Entrepreneurs or Investment banks, etc., uses this process for their Brand positioning before people.
  • Chatbot: Chatbot or Bot for a chat can be considered as a Brand development method by companies. It is a software that conducts online chat-process with customers via text or voice. Similar to having a conversation with another individual. Bot for chat messaging system is designed and developed, mainly to Brand building. In this process, chatbox explicates as per human queries and imparts a pre-set answer.
  • Net Promoter: Net Promoter or Net score promoter(Net Promoter Score) is the percentage or index of customer ratings that show the customer’s desire for recommendation towards the company or their products or service. Net score promoters acknowledge customer satisfaction and loyalty concerning the company’s product or service. The positive ratings will escalate the brand building, and the negative response will hamper the brand image exceedingly.

Now you know, a logo and a broad aspect of various elements are responsible for creating a brand among thousands of marketed products and commercials. And after creating brand identity, brand building and brand development are equivalently important for a business organization. And therefore, the need for proper marketing strategy comes. Holding into these above strategies will help you to grow more intensely.

Explainer Videos and their Inevitable Popularity

Explainer Videos and their Inevitable Popularity

In the constantly evolving world of sales and marketing, you will find numerous tools and tactics that are both popular and effective. Every brand hopes to create an everlasting impact on their target audience, and eventually convert them into prospective clients.

Everyone wants to be popular, right?

And in this rat-race, every single brand is busy ideating, strategizing and implementing new marketing ideas to win the race. Hence, their brand name can stay put on the mind of the prospective customers for a long, long time.

But to let the mass know about your brand identity, you must follow an effective strategy to engage with your customers and increase the value of your brand. Naturally, you will work creatively on your social media, engage with your audience and promote relevant content. However, every day the competition around you is multiplying and you must be tired of thinking new ideas to promote your brand.

So, what else can you possibly do to market youre latest venture online?

In that case, explainer videos are your newest ally – one that you definitely need on your side. Let’s talk about explainer videos and it’s raging popularity in the world of sales and marketing.

What is an Explainer Video?

Explainer videos are exactly what the name suggests – to primarily explain a product or a service to a set of audience. These are short animated videos that talks about any service or product, and aims to describe the said product/service comprehensively.

Explainer videos are less than 2-minutes to 90 seconds of audio-visual briefing. In such videos, animated characters, description, texts, and humorous dialogues are brought together to create audio-visual content that is engaging as well as relevant.

How does an Explainer Video work?

These short wholesome videos effortlessly deliver your brand message to the audience- for instance, what your brand has to offer or why customers should pick your brand instead of brands with similar qualities. These online marketing videos not only grab your attention fast bust also wastes absolutely no time in creating an impact in your mind.  As we all know, audio-visual contents are more fruitful than ordinary content, especially in the world of  marketing and branding.

Recent studies says, among the viewers of web videos, 64% are prone to purchase the product or service shown in the video. Since, audio-visual contents stimulates human senses and increase one’s interest towards the showcased product. Therefore, explainer videos are very effective way to sell concepts hazard-freely. You must have a explainer videography on your website or webpage (be it landing page or homepage or any product/ service page), to proliferate your website credibility and visibility. They are simple and can communicate with viewers easily.

The explainer videos are well focused on customers problems and make the customer feel prioritized. Wise men often say say “A happy customer is a loyal customer”. Also, an explainer video highlights the key features of your brand making communiation easy and effective. It answers all the curiosity appears in first time viewer’s mind and build viewer’s trust towards the brand.

Well, let us elucidate you the priority and startling popularity of explainer videos or videography in understandable words.

  • Explainer videos contain visual-friendly motion graphics, including some voice-over dialouges, which are previously well scripted by professional script writers. It is a complete videography that pitch the sale each time. Creating a buzzing explainer video can get into the visitor’s nerve and definite your sales progress.
  • A well made videography will enhance the online visibility, educate the customer about the company business or product and spread brand awarness, results in high raise in sales.
  • Further it will help to rank your website or web-page in Google and ensure your brand credibility among the mass. The more time people spent on your website, the more profit your brand will accomplish. Simple!
  • Being a contemporary commercial, explainer videos clinch your brand reach effortlessly.
  • As the explainer video is an unique combination of motion graphics, dialogues, voice overs, scripting, making it more captivating that able to resolve every specific customer problems by providing a fleeting explanation of the offered product or service.
  • Explainer videos are shareable through various social media platforms like facebook, youtube, etc., as they are short briefing of your idea. There are billions of social media users. The more it will get shared, the maximum reach and exposure your brand will get. In short, with perfect strategy and eye-catching yet informative videography, you can gain huge exposure within short period of time.
  • You might be thinking about the expenditure of making the videography and what if it does not pay you back? No need to worry about that. It is indeed a costly yet effective process for your business to grow. The good explainer video will prove worth investing and turn the business profit in positive manner.
  • An explainer video will give your brand an unique recognization in the crowd. The quality of videography will extend your professional level in your industry.

Hope these points have already convinced you about the need and popularity of explainer videos in terms of your business growth.

  1. Keep it straightforward, and segregate the video into four distinct elements: The issue, the solution, how it works and the final action.
  2. Concentrate on providing benefits, not on characterizing your product.
  3. Try to make it shorter. The shorter the video, the more impactful it will be.With decreasing attention span amongst the youth today, most people do not pay attention on lengthy videos,skipping it in the process. So, try to utilize each second of the video and implement all the points smartly. For this, all you need is a good script! A good script forms the backbone of your explainer video.
  4. After scripting, the next vital phase is voice over. A polished and professional voice will play the role of a trump card. Quality matters! A poor voice over can ruin all the effort making the video worthless.
  5. Polished voiceovers, top-notch graphics is mandatory for a killer explainer video. The motion graphics will illustrate the story with the synchronization of voice over and script. So, it needs the hand of experties.
  6. Consider adding some funk to it. Adding some music or song will invoke viewer’s emotion by making it extra intersting.
  7. Rememeber to plan your explainer video marketing strategy accordingly. Most people often avoid or overlook the need of planning their videography posting strategy in their excitement. Hope you don’t!

In the overall process, you will definitely need some help of professionals to deliver a deadly, engaging explainer video. So that, the whole effort and expenditure does not get wasted. A good explainer video will enhance your brand publicity, while a cheap one will cost you your entire business.

Why do we Design Websites on WordPress?

Design Websites on Wordpress

With apps getting banned randomly every other day in the name of world peace, it is probably smarter to have your own personal website – personal websites are all the vogue now! Unfortunately, according to the wesbite statistics (research conducted by Statistic Brain Research Institute), only 53% of start-ups and small businesses have websites. Most companies as well as individuals cite costing as an important component for not having a website and that is exactly where they are making a mistake.

What most of these people do not realize is that they can get a simple wesbite designed within $150 to $200 – yes, it sounds bizzare but that doesn’t make it false. Think it through – would you rather shell out $200 and expand your business venture on the web or still stick to the sad excuse of ‘costing’ ?

This is where WordPress comes in.

What is WordPress?

One of the best Content Management System (CMS) available today, WordPress allows it’s users to generate, modify, manage and publish engaging content on your website, making knowledge of programming not a necessity for the users. According to an effective cyber study conducted by Venture Beat in 2015, it was found that one in every four websites are powered by WordPress, making WordPress power 25% of the web at present.

Wikipedia defines WordPress as a “free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database.” Now, WordPress over the years has gained popularity to the world at large, primarily as a blogging site but contrary to popular opinion, WordPress works perfectly fine for businesses, including e-commerce sites. Originally launched as a blog publishing system, WordPress evolved over the years, making it inclusive of e-stores, LMS (learning management systems) and other trading systems.

Yes, WordPress is simple and easy to use but these are not the only benefits of this famous CMS. Keep reading to find out all about them!

Create a link through which you can market your dream products. Create a blog or a website of your own depending on what you want to be recognized for. Share your experiences through these media.  –Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the Dream

WordPress and Benefits : A tale to tell

The benefits of this classic software are plenty, both qualitatively & quantitatively. Let’s find out what makes WordPress, your next stop for a website!

  • Cost, cost, and cost :

First and foremost, WordPress saves you a ton of money that you did not want to spend in the first place, making this investment a safe one. Hiring a web developer for a customized HTML website will cost you and so will hosting as well as maintenance, making you spend a considerable amount from your entire marketing budget, on the website.

Yes, if you are a part of a big brand looking for a website, it is easier for you to spend considerably on a customized website but naturally, it does not make sense for small brands with a limited marketing budget to hire a designing agency for building a website. Here comes in WordPress, giving small brands a choice to opt for something simpler and cost-effective.

  • You dream, you curate :

Secondly, with features like plugin architecture and a creative template system, WordPress gives you unrestricted freedom while you are  customizing your website. Thus, you can build the website of your dreams at your own time with your own creativity – you can curate what you dream.

Forget blogging. There is so much more WordPress is capable of and you can tap into those less explored territories quite easily because of its user-friendly nature.

Forget small brands, even big brands are doing it. Some of the popular big brands like Sony, Bata, and Xerox have opted for WordPress. What are you waiting for?

  • Made for You, by You :

The point that I have consistently been stressing here is that WordPress is user-friendly, which literally means, especially in this case, that this software is ideal for beginners and amateurs who lack obvious coding and programming knowledge, just like me – you can manage your entire website from one dashboard!

The Live Editor helps you to add new media to your website while the Appearance section lets you curate the look and feel of your website based on your choices and preferences.

It’s not exactly unknown to most people that once you opt for a customized HTML website, you have to create seperate versions of your website for smartphones and the like but this is one thing that you do not need to worry about in the case of WordPress, which fully supports all screen sizes and mobile platforms.

  • Security?

Is your website really secure, especially when you are not investing a grand budget behind developing your website?

The answer is both yes and no.

ithemes Security is one such WordPress plugin that protects your website from hackers, making your website safe and secure. Kinsta has even come up with a detailed guideline for keeping your WordPress website safe because the last thing you would want is to wake up one morning and discover that your website is in shambles.

However, there is only so much you can do for free when it comes to security. It should be your first priority to make your website safe for you and your business and spend it in the process.

“Your website is the window of your business. Keep it fresh, keep it exciting.” – Jay Conrad Levinson

The benefits listed above comprise only the tip of the iceberg – WordPress offers a lot of possibilities that are mostly untapped till date. Before investing a huge chunk of your budget on a custom-made HTML website, opt for WordPress once and you will experience the benefits of WordPress.

With endless possibilities, WordPress opens up a world of its own for its users across the globe. So ditch your doubts, and build a relevant website today.

Why you must always have your own Brand Identity?

Your own Brand Identity

Every individual has unique traits and identity that distinguishes him from others. So is the case of a company where its brand identity strategically shapes its graphic DNA. A great inventive idea into a business’s identity can bring out an outstanding business image and appeal to the right audience.

As a graphic designer, it depends on you to make bring out the most appealing brand characters that truly work for the customer – no weight there, right?

This article will give you a step-by-step guide that will assist you with conjuring up the unique branding designs for associations that will set them apart. Read on to know more.

Content:

  1. What is a brand identity, and what makes it outstanding?
  2. How to create a Strategy?
  3. How important is Research?
  4. How can you build a strong brand identity?
  5. How to keep the power of your brand intact?
  1. What is a brand identity, and what makes it outstanding?

It is a common misconception that a brand story is all about logo design. The truth is a logo is just the beginning stage. While making a brand image for a customer, you have to build up an extensive graphic language applied to everything from social media pages and websites to billboards and brochures.

For a brand to be extraordinary, it needs to stay constant in how it depicts itself. These “constant” components should range out to:

  • The logo
  • Web design
  • Video and movement
  • Interactive Features
  • Iconography
  • Illustration
  • Photography
  • Design
  • Typography
  • Colors

 

  1. How to create a Strategy?

A brand identity should be made with a reason. It should have the option to address crowds so that it causes a business to accomplish its objectives all in all. Accordingly, before you dig straight into the design stage, it’s significant that you have a thorough strategy set up. Such a design plan must be synchronized with components such as the company’s mission and vision,corporate identity, beliefs, values, personality, and USP.

  1. How important is Research?

As a designer, we understand that your creative mind is ready to create that perfect brand identity through customization. However, if you do not plan and research well, the outcome will not be as fruitful as you want. Before you get those innovative energies pumping, there’s one final piece of “advice” that you have to deal with – and that is “research.”

At the point when you start a rebranding project or any design venture, you need to move toward each stage from a philosophical and profoundly critical view. This implies assessing, jabbing, and prodding until you get to the center of what you have to make and why. Only when you have complete information would you be able to interpret it into a graphic language.

  1. How can you build a strong brand identity?

At this point, you have accumulated heaps of information that will assist you with transforming theory into the practice of personalization. Be more than prepared to make an incredible graphic portrayal for the brand you are designing for.

So, only if you are ready to create a powerful brand story, continue to read further!

Let us begin!

  • The Logo

A brand image is a mind-boggling framework. Every component impacts the other. Everything begins with a logo and is everywhere, from letterheads to business cards and much more.

Start by portraying out some thoughts on paper. Play around with center shapes as you experience cycles.

Play around with thoughts while remembering the message you need to impart. Make the designs with the tones you wish to utilize as well.

While you may have a color plan as a primary concern during the outlining stage, your decisions can change contingent upon your approval of the graphic imagery. The significant aspect to recall is that while you need the colors, you decide to look appealing, the feeling should also assume a colossal function in your color determination.

A magnificent color palette should be spotless and adaptable. It should offer a designer enough decisions to be imaginative but insufficient to overpower.

We recommend that a brand’s color palette should incorporate:

  • One primary tone
  • Two essential tones
  • 3-5 reciprocal tones
  • Two emphasize colors

Typography

Typography has gotten probably the trickiest part of making an incredible brand identity. This is generally because there are numerous textual style types to browse that the choice cycle can be very overpowering!

As a dependable guideline, typography should be affected by the states of your logo. It needs to make a passionate graphic image (simply like tones), and its utilization should be unpretentious yet successful.

Our tips:

  • Limit the quantity of text style families to 2-3
  • Avoid “popular” text styles that could become unpopular
  • Avoid text styles that overpower or are obscured when scaled back

Photography, Illustrations, and Iconography

Consider the kind of imagery you should remember for some of the branding material. Play around with channels and don’t fear “void area.”

Concerning delineations, attempt to adhere to a strong and uniform language. Clean line drawings are sheltered and by and large function admirably with most accompanying graphic components.

Your symbol packs also need to fit into the brand image and the message that should be imparted. The business type commonly dictates symbol types.

How to keep the power of your brand intact?

Not exclusively do patterns and designs become unfashionable, but customers’ requirements and wants can also change after some time. This implies a brand should be adaptable enough to develop without rolling out any extraordinary improvements.

As a graphic designer, this implies you have to:

  • Stay taught (so that you generally recognize what clients are searching for and why)
  • Be motivated (so that you never lose your energy for making incredible brand personalities that “work”)
  • Remain furnished with information and secrets to success (so that you generally realize what the following stage will be in each innovative cycle)

If you feel confident with the information above, it is time for you to take a deep breath, consider working on it, and finally go work through each stage slowly and carefully. No unique brand identity was created or executed in one day!

How Content Writing differs from Copywriting

Content Writing differs from Copywriting

“When I write an advertisement, I don’t want you to tell me that you find it creative. I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.” said the celebrated advertising Moghul, David Oglivy years ago, introducing the world to creative advertising and quirky copies for the first time.

Copywriting and content writing are the same kinds of commercial writing – right?

No, they are not. They are quite different from each other, and most young professionals get confused while differentiating between the two. In the competitive world of marketing, relevant content is of utmost importance, and naturally, with time, the demand for content that sells have reached new heights. For contemporary entrepreneurs and professionals stepping into the world of sales and advertising, it is exceedingly significant to find out the differences between advertising copies and content writing.

WHAT IS COPYWRITING?

Copywriting is closely linked to the world of advertising. A creative copy is not selling you any particular product or service – it’s selling you an entire brand identity. Think of it as a pitch – it’s purpose is to pitch any brand to prospective clients, trying to convince them to use the brand’s product or service.

In the world of trade and commerce, you will come across plenty of copies in plenty of places. While reading a newspaper, you are looking at advertising copies when you glance towards the advertisement section, written for consumers like you. Similarly, when you scroll through an e-commerce website’s product pages, you are going through different copies of various products.

Keeping in mind that copywriting always aims to sells can be easily distinguished from other kinds of commercial writing – a creative copy very typically asks you to visit a particular website or buy a product or service. While content writing explains and entertains, copywriting sells. In tone, it is informal, and it may or may not take liberties with grammar and syntax. Also, any marketing copy is all about urgency – it is all about “connect now”, “avail offer now,” or “book now”.

On a relatable level, remember Don Draper from Mad Men? Don Draper was exactly doing this – he was selling specific ideas and sentiments attached to various products, services, and in the long run, brands.

WHAT IS CONTENT WRITING?

Wise men have always said, “Content is king,” and it’s about time we agree with the wise men. Marketing veteran Ann Handley once said, “Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about

telling any story well.” and that is precisely the inherent function of good content! It needs to amuse, delight, cultivate, and above all, it must be an engaging read.

The key to becoming an ace content writer is buried deep inside the keywords. Like copywriters experiment with grammar and syntax, content writers abide by their set of keywords for storytelling. In a market brimming with content writers eager for projects, the only path to success is your additional skills – Knowledge of HTMLSEOCSS, and WordPress is always beneficial. You could also top it with your social media marketing skills to build your target audience, consequently strengthening your industry position.

A good content writer can write several blogs for your brand without mentioning your brand even once, thereby eventually creating productive engagement for your brand.

THE DIFFERENCES & the similarity:

The most significant difference between the two lies in its purpose – while copywriting creates engaging brand identities directly involved in innovative marketing, content writing creates potential opportunities for the brand to farther their digital or offline reach amongst their target audiences.

Of course, there are a few similarities between the two. For instance, both forms of commercial writing ultimately aim to convert a reader into a potential client. Also, both depend on the qualitative frequency where performance is concerned. The primary difference between the two is in their purposes. Thus, while copywriting sells your brand directly, content writing focuses on creating engaging content and generating potential clients’ interests.

ORIGINALITY & PLAGIARISMtwo sides of the same coin

When a content/copywriter is original in their approach towards creating relevant content, they are making a conscious choice towards avoiding plagiarism. On the other hand, when the same writer decides to lift a few phrases and sentences or paraphrase from their research sources, the writer indulges in plagiarism, consciously, or subconsciously.

How will you know whether the content writer for your brand is not merely paraphrasing ideas from other blogs available in plenty on the web? Yes, it seems like a tedious job, but it is only a matter of minutes with the advent of digitization. Sites like Copyscape, Quetext, or Turnitin help you find out the exact percentage of ‘un-original’ content and the sources from where it has been ‘copied’. Charges of plagiarism can be the last nail on a new writer’s career – one can quickly lose their reputation and the clients or get involved in litigation.

It is your originality that makes your content interesting, and that, in turn, makes your brand unique. If there is nothing new about your brand, then advertising your brand becomes very challenging – in such a situation, your only hope is original content that will market your brand and cater to your target audience without any hassle.

Remember, your content is your trump card. Paying it most of your attention is probably a good idea, especially if you just launched your business. So, it is reasonable to invest in professionals who can create engagingrelevant, and unique content for your brand, thus making it a success.

Why www.dreamlogodesign.com?

In 2020 the importance of relevant content has increased ten folds in the past decade. Changing trends and algorithms have emerged with changing times, making content marketing an exciting area of work. With over six years of experience in the content industry, we have built an excellent team of writers who can provide you with engaging and relevant content on diverse themes and motifs.

Our primary focus is on providing quality content while keeping up with all the latest SEO trends. We follow a simple yet effective process while making our clients happy with our content. Premium tools like Grammarly, Copyscape closely monitor every line, and Yoast SEO – every project, thus, not only performs well online but also abides by search engine requirements.

We incorporate keywords in our articles/blogs, and as a result, our content performs well on all platforms. After completing the project, we sign over the full copyrights to the client, making it even more convenient for you.