How to build a brand people actually remember
Marketing gets you seen. Branding gives people something to remember.
Those two things get confused constantly.
You can have beautiful branding and very little marketing.
You can have enormous reach and almost no recognisable brand.
The businesses that become memorable learn how to do both.
And it starts well before the logo.
Your brand is not your visual identity
Your logo matters.
Your colours matter.
Typography matters.
Photography matters.
But none of them, individually, are the brand.
Your brand is the collection of things people begin to associate with your business.
The way you speak.
What you repeatedly talk about.
The feeling of the photography.
How the packaging arrives.
The things you refuse to do.
The experience after someone buys.
The idea someone repeats when they tell their friend about you.
Your visual identity helps make those things recognisable.
It isn’t responsible for inventing them.
Decide what you want people to remember
This sounds obvious.
It rarely gets answered clearly.
If somebody encountered your business five times this month and remembered one thing, what should it be?
Not five things.
One.
Maybe you’re the local restaurant known for a particular experience.
The fashion label known for one silhouette.
The consultant known for making something complicated incredibly simple.
The clinic known for a particular approach.
The product that solves one oddly specific frustration.
You can expand later.
Recognition needs somewhere to begin.
More content isn’t always more marketing.
– FOLDEDMarketing
Repetition isn’t boring
Business owners get tired of their own messaging long before their customers do.
You’ve seen the phrase 47 times.
Your customer saw it twice.
You’ve looked at the campaign every day for three weeks.
They scrolled past one post while waiting for coffee.
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