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COMMUNICATINGCOMMUNICATINGYOUR BRANDYOUR BRAND
Kyle J. Sexton Kyle J. Sexton | [email protected]| [email protected]
FastChamber.comFastChamber.com
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The Marketing Umbrella
• Research• Product
Development• Advertising• Branding• Publicity• Communications
• Sales• Customer Service• Pricing• Packaging• Promotion
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Why Are You Here?
Your Chamber Wants:• More new members• To keep the ones you have• Better referrals• New ideas for your membership
development strategy
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Agenda
• Your brand affects your membership strategy
• Messaging: Words mean things• Participation vs. Partnership• Quantify the value of membership• Creative advertising
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Branding and Marketing
• “Marketing is branding. The two concepts are so inextricably linked that it is impossible to separate them.
• Furthermore, since everything a company does can contribute to the brand-building process, marketing is not a function that can be considered in isolation.”
– 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, Al Ries and Laura Ries
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What is a Brand?
• It’s more than a name• Branding ‘pre-sells’ the product or service to the user• Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things• A brand stands for something, a position in the mind• It’s more than a logo• A brand requires a visual vocabulary
– Consistent use of a “look and feel” – A common “voice” and tone/style– Standardized color palette, typefaces, visual style
• Consistent use of wording, tag lines, theme lines
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Branding is Boring!
• It requires consistency– Repetition of key phrases (radio burn)– Redundant visual identity– Target your audience– Focus on presentation– Creative limitations
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Connecting to your customers
“Building brand awareness is not simply about throwing money at the moon. It’s about creating a consistent, emotional connection with your customers.”
James Daly, Editor in Chief, Business 2.0
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2 Ways to choose your brand
• (1) Be who you want to be• Decide how you want the public to
perceive you• Communicate and act in support of it–Works for new companies, mergers, new
markets– New brands often rejected by
consumers
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2 Ways to choose your brand
• Or (2) Be who you are • Be who your audience/the public expects
you to be• Selectively reinforce what your existing
customers feel and say about your product or service
• Run focus groups or surveys to find out why people buy initially, and why they return
• Collect testimonials to find common words, themes
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3 Steps to develop your brand
• 1. Who is your target audience? • End user, Influencer, Buyer, or Referrer
• 2. Find their “hot buttons”• 3. Tailor message to audience
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1. Who is your target audience?
• Do you know everyone you’re selling to? Who buys? Who influences? Who refers? Who uses?
• Consider all audiences, their expectations
• Speak their language• Appeal to their emotions
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Examine their job position
• Business audiences: What is their responsibility to their company?
• Gatekeepers tend to protect decision makers• Buyers tend to look for the best deal• Salespeople seek new prospects, partnerships• Managers tend to control costs• Investors want bottom-line growth• Owners are more holistic, but typically not
“joiners”
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2. Find their “hot buttons”
• Unique Selling Proposition provides prospects with an emotional reason to buy
• Distinguishes your brand from the competition
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3. Tailor message to audience
• For results, prioritize marketing tools by audiences and buying power– Some audiences may drive repeat sales
instead of just one time– Consider “lifetime value”– Invest in customer retention– One tool for many uses, extend the life
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4 Considerations For Communicating Your Brand
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1. Consider learning styles
• Different people take in information in different ways – appeal to as many senses as possible– Visual images that touch and relate–Wording that paints a picture– Textures/paper that encourage touch– Sounds (Intel’s mnemonic)
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2. Review the competition
• Competition may be direct or indirect• We’re competing for time and attention• We’re offering another choice in similar
product or service• Or another choice of use of time (if I
don’t do this, I can do that)• What are the alternatives for your
target audience?
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3. Referrals are Key
• Generate talk about your product or service amongst peer groups
• Some products/services will only be sold with referral
• Testimonials: People trust other people’s opinions
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4. Buying and Justifying
• Businesses: People BUY emotionally, JUSTIFY intellectually
• Chambers: People JOIN emotionally and JUSTIFY upon renewal –Who MUST you reach in order to be
successful? –Who will have the most impact over the
long-term?
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Define Your Brand Character• Choose an Exercise:• If your chamber was a person, write
3 one-word adjectives to describe that person
• If your chamber was a car, what brand would it be? Give 3 one-word adjectives to describe it.
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Brand vs. Audience
• Is your audience willing to respond to your image?
• You may want to appear complex, intelligent and powerful
• Your audience might prefer simple, folksy... A persona to which they can relate
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Who is your audience?
• How do they take in information? • Age/generation affiliation• Their likes and dislikes• What/who do they relate to?
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Information versus Trust• Need A High Level Of Trust: Florist• “Don’t give me the details and the names of the flowers,
just give me something that’s pretty, smells good and only costs about $70.”
• Need Trust and Information: Appliance Retailer• “I need to know what features are included, how it works,
as well as how reliable the brand is before I make a purchase decision.”
• Need A High Level Of Detail: Technical Product• “Give me all of the facts, details, charts and graphs. I want
to understand how this thing works, what it does and how it’s different from the other products like it.”
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Branding Helps You…
• Understand your audience’s expectations
• Makes each communication more effective
• You’ll provide what your audience needs to make a decision
• Each point of contact will build on the last message - Tool Kit Terms
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Tool Kit Terms – Charleston Group
1. Strengthen the Local Economy2. Represent Business Interests3. Take Political Action4. Promote the Community5. Provide Networking
Opportunities
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Build it!
• Branding is the foundation of any effective, ongoing marketing program.
• The success of every business relies on a strong brand identity implemented into all communications.
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Your Marketing Message
The Wrong Pitch• The chamber is a private non-profit
membership organization that works to ensure a healthy local economy.
• The chamber is a group of businesses that share common community goals.
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Your Marketing Message
The Right Pitch• The chamber solves common business
problems like not having enough time to lobby the government for less red tape and taxes.
• The Chamber connects businesses to consumers and each other, in order to help them grow.
• The Chamber helps people who are tired of doing business out of a phone book.
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Participation vs. Partnership
• Set long term expectations• Membership does not require
participation• Prevent drops due to “no time to
participate”• The Chamber is NOT a health club
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Quantify your benefits
• How much does membership cost?• How much is membership worth?• Quantify it and sell it!• Add to the value with media partners
and give-aways• www.FastChamber.com
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Testimonials: Get them started!
• “As a service business, membership in the Chamber is especially valuable because…”
• “The Chamber helps me to…”• “The Chamber saves me time/trouble
by…”
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Segmenting Testimonials
• Segment the sources of your testimonials for use in targeting like audiences
• Start-up, Emerging, or Mature• Retailer, Restaurant, Manufacturer,
Service, Professional, etc.• Match prospects with corresponding
testimonials
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Creative Marketing Ideas
• Radio “Business Beat”
• Co-Brand Television Advertising– ImageBuilder 1– ImageBuilder 2
• Partner with Members for Newspaper Ads
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LET’S CHATLET’S CHAT
Kyle J. Sexton Kyle J. Sexton | [email protected]| [email protected]
FastChamber.comFastChamber.com
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BONUS MATERIAL
• Reframe Your Value Proposition
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Value Proposition Defined
A value proposition is a clear statement of the tangible results a customer gets from using your products or services. The more specific your value proposition is, the better
Weak examples: • We connect businesses• We advocate for businesses• We provide networking and events
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Value Proposition Examples
• The Chamber delivers tangible results like
• Less government red tape and taxes• More business• Increased visibility• Better connections• Timely information
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Your Marketing Message
The Wrong Pitch• The chamber is a private non-profit
membership organization that works to ensure a healthy local economy.
• The chamber is a group of businesses that share common community goals.
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Your Marketing Message
The Right Pitch• The chamber solves common business
problems like not having enough time to lobby the government for less red tape and taxes.
• The Chamber connects businesses to consumers and each other, in order to help them grow.
• The Chamber helps people who are tired of doing business out of a phone book.
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Written Exercise
a) My target market is ________________________
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Written Exercise
b) Identify and summarize the 3 biggest and most critical problems that your target market faces1__________________________2__________________________3__________________________
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Written Exercise
c) List how you solve these problems and present members with unique solutions______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Written Exercise
d) Include the most dramatic (WOW!) results that you or your members have achieved ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Written Exercise
e) List the results and deepest benefits your members receive ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Reframed Value Proposition
In a dialogue…
• You know how (a) are feeling in this economy, and (b)? Well, what we do is (c), and the result is (d). The benefits to these are (e).
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The Value Proposition
“At the Chamber of Commerce, we work with more than 800 businesses to strengthen our local economy, represent business interests, take political action and promote the community. We also provide networking opportunities to expand your market share and give you access to ideas or products that save your money or increase your bottom line. Simply put, the Chamber is dedicated to helping local companies grow their businesses so the economy will grow for all businesses.”