- Hi, my name's Matt Thorne from Digital Beanstalk
and today I'm going to talk about three simple things
you can do to make your brand rock
and stand out in a crowded arena.
So first, what is your brand?
So here I'm going to steal a phrase from Jeff Bezos,
so "Your brand is what other people say about you
"when you're not in the room."
So, what does this mean?
First of all you've got who you say you are.
So this includes your logos, image styles, colors,
fonts you use, any of the language in your marketing
or website, your business personality,
and if you're a small business owner
your personal brand can also come into this.
Then you've got how your target market,
how your customers, actually perceive you
and this combined forms your brand.
Alright, so over the next 10 minutes
I'm just going to talk about how
you can influence your brand.
So it's that first section is who you say you are.
So, first things is we're going to make sure
we define your ideal target audience.
Then we're going to look at how you keep all
of your marketing messaging consistent
and how you describe your products
in a way that people actually care about.
First, target audience.
Now, one thing I want to point out here
is that you defining a target audience does not mean
you exclude all other customers.
All this is, is that you basically want to get
the most enjoyable customers,
the ones who are least pain in the ass,
and of course, the ones who are most profitable.
So what we're really looking for is someone
in that Goldilocks zone.
Now, you've probably got quite a few different audiences
that you're targeting.
Now, to narrow this down, this is a task that we do with all
of our clients before we do a branding project with them.
It just helps narrow down who is
that ideal audience for you.
So, what I want you to do is just get an A4 sheet of paper
and then split it up into columns.
On the first column I want you to write down
five different audiences and also maybe
the person within that business
if it is a business that you're targeting.
Then, next column along is going to be can they afford you?
It's all well and good working with people
who have no money and make you feel great, however,
long-term this is not gonna work out very well
for your business plan.
So, what we want to do is just on the rating of one to five,
one they really can't afford you at all,
five they could afford you easily.
Just go down and rate each one of those audiences.
Next column, big outcomes.
Can you make a big difference for them?
Again, if your product or service only makes
a minor impact on their business and their outcomes,
they're not really gonna be drawn to you as much.
What you want is that someone that when you come along,
your services, your products, make an absolutely massive
difference to them and completely transform
the way that they're getting business
or makes their lives so much easier.
So again, scale of one to five.
One, not a huge amount of difference,
five, big, big difference.
Go and rate each person.
Now, next column, decision makers.
Can you actually get access to that person?
Now, it might be as easy as picking up a phone
and just calling them, you might already have their number,
their email address, that would be great.
But a lot of the time this is not the case.
So, can you get a hold of them on Linkedin
or Facebook marketing?
Can you just walk into a shop and meet them?
So again, on that rating of one to five
where one is really, really difficult to get hold
of these people, five is you can just walk up to them,
you've already got their contact details.
We've got one extra column here, which is a deal breaker.
If you are gonna be marketing to people,
if it's from an industry that you really don't have
a passion for, really don't care for,
then it's gonna come across in everything you do.
What I always recommend is just scrap off
that entire audience and just forget about them for now.
Now, what I want to do for everyone
that's left is go and actually total up the score.
So, you should have anywhere up to 15,
say 15 being your ideal target audience.
Now this is not clear cut and hard advice.
You might want to actually judge and use your own judgment
to see which one is ideal.
So next, once we've actually identified
a ideal target audience, you actually want
to make sure any messaging you bring across
to them is kept consistent.
Nothing worse than your marketing efforts
being all over the place.
Your client doesn't really know who you are,
what you're about, or any of your key messaging.
We need to develop a brand personality.
What we use for this is called brand archetypes.
So there's 12 universal character types
that are recognized globally across all cultures.
These are what big brands use to keep their marketing
and their messaging consistent, really make them stand out,
and make them unique within the marketplace.
Now, when you're discovering your own brand personality,
just beware that you might want, or you'll be tempted to,
just associate with who you think you are.
What you really need to do is actually
think about how your target audience view you
and who they're going to be most attracted to.
That's who you want to project who you are.
As I said, there are 12 character types here.
I'm not going to go through all of them today.
All I'm gonna do is give you one as an example.
In the messages below you will be able to get a link
to actually download the little booklet
that lists all 12 of these in detail.
So, what I'm gonna do today is just go through
the explorer brand.
So the explorer is someone who seeks out new things,
new adventures, wants to go where no one else
has been before.
And it's all about who they've become and the journey
they take and who they've become along the way.
So, to give you a bit of example I'm going to use Jeep
as they're absolute classic explorer brand.
So if you look at their advertising
sometimes they are just literal,
they use the work explore in their ads.
It's very clear, very obvious,
who they are trying to target with this.
So you can see here in another marketing campaign
this minimal use of language or logo,
doesn't include the Jeep at all.
All they're doing is creating feeling of being an explorer.
Now why visit a zoo when you have a Jeep?
This is what you could have.
And that's the messaging they're really trying
to bring across here.
And again, just this marketing campaign,
where there's a Jeep there's a road.
It uses their brand promise that Jeep forges new paths.
So here you can see across multiple ad campaigns
they've kept the same message.
They've reinforced feelings and outcomes
that basically owning a Jeep allows you to be an explorer.
So why should I care?
Or more importantly, why should your ideal target market
care about what you do?
At the end of the day, people don't want your product
or your service.
Now if we go back to the Jeep example,
most people don't want to fundamentally own a Jeep.
What they want is the possibility to go into woop woop,
it allows them become an explorer.
It's exciting.
So, you need to remember that when you're doing
your own marketing, you need to make sure
you're explaining this, make sure you explain
what's in it for them.
And for that we use what's called the FBI Matrix.
FBI Matrix, so that's feature benefits implication.
Feature, fairly simple.
This is what you do, this is your products, your services.
So just list them down.
Now the benefit is this is the direct thing
they actually get from it, is what is it they'll get
as an outcome from going with you.
What we really care about is the implication.
This can be the emotional outcome from someone.
This can be the solution to what keeps them up at night.
So for us, we create meaningful brands for our clients.
But at the end of the day, we know that people
don't really care about branding fundamentally.
Although, the benefit is they get great marketing documents
that clear visual identity, professional look,
great-looking business cards.
But again, no one stays awake at night worrying
that the business cards don't look great.
However, the implication of that is that clients associate
this professionalism with high-quality products
which increases their sales.
So, at the end of the day I thought
I was in the business of branding,
but really all my clients want is to get more sales.
Okay, so that was a very quick crash course
in what we do with our clients
when we start off a new branding project.
So what you need to do now is create yourself
a quick cheat sheet.
So write these things down.
So first, write down your ideal target market.
Then what you need to do is actually go and research
and explore what archetype you actually want to be.
And then write down why do people actually want
to buy from you.
And then use all of this in any marketing,
in any social post that you do.
Then, next step is get your branding
in line with your brand.
Okay, so to give you a bit of an example
of what we do with our clients after we've gone through
this process, this is KeastCo.
So KeastCo. are NLP practitioners and we found out that
their ideal target audience were business owners
and their core products were all about empowering people,
leading them on a path of discovery.
So, they naturally fell into being an explorer brand
which we incorporated with language
of let's start a journey.
And also incorporates into imagery using this journey path
to frame people to reinforce the brand message.
Now Trouble Free Computing Solutions
was an interesting project.
So there was initially an avatar
that the owner wanted to keep the whole concept of.
The nice friendly approach.
We went through this process with Ben
and he flew through the process himself.
And he would say ah, it was easy.
But that came out in his personality.
Now he is an everyman and this is also really
what his target audience was attracted to as well.
Someone who is trustworthy, reliable,
and just gets things done.
And again, so making this process look easy,
it's no hassle, no fuss, no trouble.
Okay, so that was a bit of a crash course
of what we do with our clients and our process.
So, what we've done to make this easier for you
is created this free guide.
A free brand toolkit which is very easy to follow.
It's a step-by-step guide for you
to be able to do these exercises yourself.
We've also got an archetype booklet in there as well,
which lists all 12 of them in detail
and exercises you can do to actually determine
the best archetype for you and all of the worksheets
that I've shown in this presentation are included
in there as well.
To get this course, very simple,
just go to dbean.cc/imetmatt.
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