The rising numbers of both emerging companies and crowdfunded campaigns are ushering in a new need for management. We’ve all heard stories about the successful company that eventually failed due to the lack of proper management and poor business development strategies with growing their brand - but the good thing is that you can learn from their mistakes.
Here are some essential branding tips for startups that will grow your brand:
Be consistent
When developing a brand and growing your image through the early operations of your business, it’s important to stay in alignment with your mission and vision goals. A consistent plan for growth and branding is one of the key aspects to make your startup differentiate itself from competitors. Aside from that, it gives you and your employees a sense of unity, provides a coherent theme for your business to follow and presents an identifiable image to your current and potential clients.
Hyper-personalise
Gone are the times that brands spoke to their audience from their perch of being a “big name". Customers are now preferential to brands that speak and connect to them on a personal level - where it takes their responsiveness into consideration when it comes to how the brand markets and grows. Startups should never forget the importance of a loyal fanbase - they are the lifeblood of so much information that you can use to grow your business.
Be active on social media
It’s no secret that most of the world is now on social media and for startups, social media is the fastest and cost effective way to reach new audiences. Especially if your brand has a focus on the youth and millennial audiences, social media can be the most convenient way to keep a finger on the pulse of your audience. More and more brands are also pushing for a social-centric campaign of promoting themselves - by using social media as a trackable metric, brands can deploy campaigns that have easily attainable and easily synthesised data.
Don’t be afraid to collaborate
There is power in numbers - even more so if those numbers mean the same thing. So many startups are formed with ideas that can perfectly complement others if only they were to only ask! Before fully formulating your brand, try asking yourself, is there already another startup that can cooperate with me on this vision? By collaborating with other brands, you can capture a larger audience and establish a long-working beneficial partnership.
Ask for advice
When push comes to shove, experienced professionals are still the best people to consult when you encounter unfamiliar territory. There are plenty of management consulting companies that can offer you expert advice about marketing and growing your brand, and will actively work with you in order to further your own business goals.
Helping a startup through its paces is never easy - but it also never has to be particularly difficult, either. Learn as much as you can from those who have done it before, ask advice from those who know more and be open to new trends and possibilities: those are the qualities that startups must possess in order to come out on top.
Want to learn how to supercharge your marketing efforts? Download a copy of our Marketing Pillar eBook today to help you get started.
