{"id":14937,"date":"2023-11-13T20:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonedm.co.uk\/?post_type=cs_blogs&p=14937"},"modified":"2023-11-13T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:36:42","slug":"brand-is-not-just-a-logo","status":"publish","type":"cs_blogs","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonedm.co.uk\/blog\/brand-is-not-just-a-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should not overlook brand and creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The original premise for this blog was going to be why you should not overlook brand and creativity in tough market conditions.<\/p>\n
But when you stop to think about it, that\u2019s four words too many. The four in question are: in tough market conditions.<\/p>\n
Whether your brand is competing for attention in a tiger economy or during a deep depression, you want – and need – your brand to be the hardest worker in your business. It can\u2019t be that without creativity. Brand and creativity are the proverbial chicken and egg.<\/p>\n\n
If brand is the beating heart of a business then creativity keeps it pumping. Together, they are pivotal to the success of any marketing campaign. Good design helps grab attention, correctly portrays your brand, gives it consistency and simplifies your messaging in a visual way.<\/p>\n
So, what makes branding so important? It can:<\/p>\n
Yes, your brand is everything, a multi-faceted combination of the tangible and intangible. It communicates, it tells your story, it connects with your audience\/consumers, it creates a sense of community, it creates trust, it evokes emotion, it is how you are perceived, it sets you apart from your competitors, and most importantly, it influences and feeds your bottom line by enticing people to choose your product(s) above those of a competitor.<\/p>\n
How do you solve this seemingly unfathomable equation?<\/p>\n\n
The secret weapon in the battle to stay ahead of the competition is creativity. Research from Kantar<\/a>, the world\u2019s leading data, insights and consulting company, suggests many marketers tend to underestimate the importance of brand size and creative quality.<\/p>\n The top two drivers of advertising profitability, says Kantar, are the two aforementioned ingredients, which can multiply profitability by factors of 18 and 12 respectively, compared, say, to media mix, which only has a multiplying factor of 2.5.<\/p>\n The research goes on to say: \u201cOf course, brand size is inextricably linked to brand health, or \u2018power\u2019. Kantar<\/a> research has consistently shown that stronger, more meaningfully different brands are more likely to grow. In particular, we know that brands with strong difference are especially likely to see higher advertising returns.\u201d<\/p>\n As a full-service agency<\/a>, it\u2019s our job to show you what in-depth conceptualisation, brilliant copywriting, world-class design and excellent execution look like.<\/p>\n\n Good design speaks volumes about a company\u2019s professionalism, quality and positioning in the market.<\/p>\n The clich\u00e9 that a picture is worth a thousand words is true. The human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than words.<\/p>\n We are visual creatures, which is why it is so important imagery accurately reflects the quality of your business and shows your customers what you want them to see.<\/p>\n Research at the US-based 3M Corporation also concluded the human brain deciphers image elements simultaneously, while language is decoded in a linear, sequential manner taking more time to process.<\/p>\n In fact, psychologist Albert Mehrabian, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, has demonstrated that 93% of communication is nonverbal. Not only does the brain recognise an image more quickly, but it also remembers visuals much better than it does words.<\/p>\n And in this age of social media and endless scrolling, it is more important than ever to ensure your design is helping you to connect with your target audience and help to convert those people into sales, or leads, or whatever your objective is, which will help you achieve your goals and provide ROI.<\/p>\n We often state that our design team with their collective four decades of industry experience and brief interpretation acumen between them, is the creative cog of Cornerstone. Good creative design will help you create a strong impression,\u00a0build a brand identity, convey key information, narrate your story, and build consumer trust.<\/p>\n\n Even though images communicate even complex messages quickly, concisely, and memorably, a marketing campaign has an end-user, so thought needs to go in to design that works for them.<\/p>\n Of course, imagery should be relevant to your brand, but it should be creatively designed to catch the eye of the target audience wherever they discover you.<\/p>\n Even the best campaign only gets traction if it stands out. It has to rise above the noise of all the other competing signals from advertisers and content producers. It then has to catch the attention of the right prospect and hold it.<\/p>\n And design needs to be inclusive, taking account of factors like age, internet access, responsiveness, colour contrast, readability, and need for global reach. Another important design feature is having the right mix of text and image to improve comprehension.<\/p>\n Whatever it is, great design<\/a> helps you speak to your prospects in a memorable way, and it stands the best chance of getting your campaign noticed.<\/p>\n\n If you\u2019re still in any doubt about the importance of brand and creativity, here is some further food for thought, courtesy of financesonline.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Web design statistics<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Benefits of visual graphics in digital marketing<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Visual graphics and social marketing<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Colours in graphic design<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Of course, market conditions are tough at the moment, and while this is certainly not the time to cut corners or make do with substandard branding, that\u2019s not the only reason to consider brand and creativity. Survival is! Creating a strong brand is a long term investment which will reap long term results.<\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
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