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Developing Business Identity 101

Business identity must be expressed coherently and consistently to customers and the industry through logos, visuals, slogans and stationery printing.

Author: Lynne Saarte

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Just like someone developing a unique identity since birth, businesses must also do the same thing. They must also develop identifies of their own that will stand out and successfully reach their target customers. So for any newly established company to prosper, it must need to have a purpose, market and philosophy. And this identity must be expressed coherently and consistently to customers and the industry through logos, visuals, slogans and stationery printing. Just like with normal friendships, positive identities are long lasting, memorable and definitely desirable. With a company’s identity presented in business cards and personalized stationeries, the execution should be done pristinely.

Here is a guide to developing your own business identity:

Competitor Research

Begin by acquiring information about competitors and their branding. Make a note of what makes them distinct. Then make an evaluation of your business and compare it with your competitors. Find a niche where you can build your own identity and promote it from there. Make sure that this niche is customer-oriented. Be as specific as you can.

Customer Research

To come up with a more intimate and personal results, set up a focused group discussion. Select a group of customers and ask them what they prefer in a brand. Keep their suggestions and try to get inspiration from their answers.

Brainstorming

Sit down and brainstorm with a few business people and employees. Discuss your visual identity and how you can best represent your company. This should include your company name, logo, motto, color and the rest of your corporate identity. Take note of all their suggestions and recommendations.

Decisions and Tests

From the brainstorming, formulate company name, logo, motto, color and other corporate representations. Present this through business cards and stationery printing and show them to stakeholders and employers. Request for them to critic what you have presented.

Set up another focused group discussion and present your vision for identity. Let them analyze it.

Compare the feedbacks from stakeholders and employers to that of the focused group discussion results. Then, finalize your corporate identity. Include your own points since you are after all the person behind the business.

Implementation

Once you have finalized everything; company name, logo, motto and the rest of graphic representation, implement them in all your products, marketing campaigns, personalized stationeries, public relations activities and website. Make sure you have a broad coverage and exposure and quite a number of repetition of your business identity. Make your advertising and marketing materials reflect your identity. Launch campaigns for business card and stationery printing, brochure and flyer printing and other forms of literature that will be widely distributed to target customers and within your industry. This assures and establishment of your identity.

About Author

Lynne Saarte is a writer that hails from Texas. She has been in the Internet business for some years now, specializing in Internet marketing and other online business strategies.

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