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hey everybody welcome back i want to talk to you about brand awareness in particular seven ways you can increase your brand awareness i talk a lot about the three r's so being recognized remembered and revered and brand awareness sits squarely in that recognized piece do people do customers do visitors do prospects do they recognize or do they know that you exist what do users know about your brand and when users come across your brand out there in the brand of sphere do they recognize that it's you this can include things like do they recognize your name do you recognize your color palette do they recognize your brand id your products your services your ads your content having great brand awareness is people having a deeper familiarity with your brand with your products with your services with your brand design with your brand's goals with its history with its mission having great brand awareness can teach you things like the effectiveness of your brand designer the effectiveness of your marketing or how people are receiving you how much you differ for your from your competition how well they can tell you apart so the first thing you can do to increase brand awareness is you can partner with other brands now brands partner up and create partnerships all the time some examples of this are like red bull and gopro or apple and mastercard or pottery barn and william sonoma or spotify and starbucks these are all brand partnerships and by st when you're starting out it's really beneficial to establish partnerships with other brands because what you're doing is by showing up with that brand and giving them some value you're bringing your audience to their audience and you're leveraging their audience to build your audience so make sure that you're engaging with brands that have similar purposes and similar values and similar lifestyle aspirations you want to co-publish with them so you can co-publish blog posts or articles you can do you know video interviews you can do podcast interviews you can share or show up in the same place and give value to their audience by developing those partnerships it can really build your brand and your brand awareness much faster the second way you can build brand awareness is by guest posting now you can't jump right in and write for huffington post right away you're going to have to probably start small and build credibility over time and write for larger and larger publications you want to put in your research you want to research brands that have similar audiences and similar targets and then pitch them with content you really want to do your research well because if you do you're going to have better results for your efforts and your pitches and so write a pitch email include a sample headline of the type of content that you would write or links to previous content that you've written for other brands and then pitch them with your idea and make sure to keep the pitch short because they get dozens of these emails a day and no one got time for that the third way to build brand awareness is to leverage social so people won't share your content unless you ask them to but you want to make sure that you're developing shareable content so things like graphics and infographics and quotes make sure that you're focusing on really hot topics in your industry and you shorten links so it's really easy for people to share and then you want to make sure that you engage you want to answer comments you want to ask questions you want to really engage with your audience you want to be authentic and not salesy because if you incorporate your social into your website facebook feed instagram feed it's going to drive people to your social and then drive up your brand awareness you want to share other people's content so they'll share yours they'll return that favor and then your content is getting exposed again to their audience and that's building that level of brand awareness and exposure so the fourth way to increase brand awareness is infographics everyone loves infographics ninety percent of the information that's transmitted to the human brain is transmitted visually and also we process images sixty thousand times faster than we process text so using captioned images is a great way to communicate information very quickly you want to visualize the information that you know and there's some great services for creating infographics things like visme and vengage and canva and piktochart i'll put those links in the description they're great services that make it really easy for you to develop infographics and so when you do it you want to promote the type of work that you do kind of innovative ideas the kind of resources and data that would be helpful to your customer targets or to your avatar and then you want to make sure that you push it out to the category of business that you're in and then finally you want to make sure if you're developing infographics that you brand them i can't tell you how many infographics i see out there that are being shared all over the place that don't have any branding on them the people who develop the infographic did not put their url on it or any contact information or even their brand name or their logo that's how you increase brand awareness your content getting shared with a wider audience so you want to make sure that your brand gets out there with the information that you're producing so the fifth way to increase brand awareness is publishing content publishing content is probably one of the best ways to increase brand awareness it's shareable it's evergreen so it lasts forever it increases your credibility it establishes you as a thought leader you can repurpose your content across a bunch of different platforms so if you write an article you can turn it into a podcast or you do a video you can turn it into an article you can promote your industry expertise you can champion trends you can champion innovations you can share resources so apps and services and tutorials you can give all sorts of value to your audience and that is going to make them like you better and make them want to share your stuff and that is going to increase brand awareness the sixth way to increase brand awareness is to leverage friend referrals people trust their friends my good friend chris ducker calls p2p so people to people marketing people are much more apt to follow a recommendation from a friend than they would from any kind of brand advertising there's a geometric growth geometric progression of growth in asking and leveraging friend referrals for instance if you have a tribe of 10 people and you ask them to share what you want them to share with four of their friends suddenly you've turned that into 40 brand impressions so you want to offer possibly if you can an incentive so download or some sort of valuable content to the people you're asking to share for to their friends for you dropbox did this in a really effective way when they were starting off they offered free disk space to anybody who brought in or recommended them to a friend they gave you 500 megabytes of disk space and they capped it at 1
Thanks for your comment Devona Degennaro, have a nice day.
- Jennefer Mylar, Staff Member
Christine asks what is the best way to bring awareness to your brand when first starting up Christina I mean have you watched 177 there's a million things you can do I mean PR is still a basic tried-and-true meaning like show up on blogs and be interviewed and show up on a blab and show up on a periscope and things you can do without a PR company and paying them two to five thousand dollars a year just hack go on you know I mean this is really like this is almost tiresome so what's her name Christine I'm sorry but like this is like I mean this is literally like hey Gary recap everything you've been talking about for nine years I mean I'd almost rather you just google my name and get those answers this way but I'll pander to the context of show I'm a little bit pissed off at you India for this question this makes no sense there's a million things create content use social networks all this stuff now doesn't cost money see the reason I love social media is it's layered on top of the Internet and it doesn't cost you money it cost your talent and time but it doesn't cost you money like email HuffPo and say I want to I want to guess blog okay and then you talk about your stuff and it's so easy influencer or send them free product I have no idea what your product or service is but there's so many ways to get exposure I get that I'm good at it but the blueprint has been absolutely laid out for so many people its content creation and it's its content and distribution at its most basic form content and distribution the distribution game has changed so much over the last decade the youtubes and Facebook's and Twitter's and snapchats they all work if you know how to use them it's a tool right like if I don't know how to use a wrench it's not valuable to me if you don't know how to use YouTube it won't be valuable to you but what you need to do is you need to figure out how to make them valuable or hire or partner with somebody that will make it value both for you but the ability to get exposure now has never been easier the problem is that means that everybody's going into that game and it heel ters the supply and demand of attention and so now everybody's got an at-bat and now the cream has to rise to the top [Applause] [Applause]
Thanks Lawerence your participation is very much appreciated
- Jennefer Mylar
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