Grow Your
logo design into a Brand
Your logo
design may be distinctive, however, in a competitive business
environment, nurturing your logo design into a brand enables you
to create and capture business value to win market share, enter
new markets and gain competitive advantage.
If your company
already has the vitamins and nutrients, such as a mission statement,
value proposition, and core values, then you have many of the
things you need to grow your logo design into a brand and connect
your employees, partners, and customers to a singular business
vision in the marketplace.
logo
design = 3D Representation, Brand = 3D Expectation
The goal of a logo design is to mature from a representational
symbol of a company, service, or product, into an expectation
of performance in the mind of consumers.
When first
created, logo designs represent conceptual ideas and exist as
business cards; letterhead, cardboard stencils, and symbols on
proposal covers. As they begin to evolve, they can grow into the
sum of the corporate vision and symbolize the value proposition,
core company values, characteristics, and attributes that are
associated with a positive emotion -- that uniquely identifies
a logo design as a service offering in the mind of the consumer.
Through the
evolving life of a logo design, it is expected to become more
accountable as it gains responsibility, visibility and stature.
To reach this golden era of achievement, the logo design matures
to become a brand. It's simple existence, placed on marketing
communications and correspondence; signify a presence and voice
of the company that speaksto the consumer's expectations. This
symbolic quality can retain consumers as well as attract new ones,
through recognition and association of new product launches and
business initiatives.
Thus, in the
corporate setting, logo designs
can become brands and contribute to the growth of the corporation
- and to society with a healthy diet of strategy and nutrients.
A brand can also be reproduced as a product line of sub brands
within a brand family. Evolving from representation to expectation,
involves growing from a conceptual idea to an awareness of recognized
stature that compels a positive relationship of image and recall.
Consistent use of targeted marketing communications materials
can help achieve brand expectation of performance for products
and services.
Corporate
Identity + Marketplace Positioning =3D Growth Strategy. The logo
design and corporate identity is the frontline of your company's
services. It's the company asset that represents your voice for
a position in the marketplace.
While your
logo design is the visual signature of your idea, company, product
or service, its practical use is the centerpiece of your corporate
communications, as your corporate identity. The bottom line business
value of your corporate communications is strengthened in the
marketplace with consistent use of identity, and targeted content
and message.
A corporate
communications strategy will help your business gain market share
- in a changing and competitive business landscape. Ultimately,
your corporate brand should stand for the relationship your company
has with its employees, partners, and customers. For a logo
design to come to life, to exist in the minds of your consumers
- the company must be internally aligned to deliver the brand
promise through the company's, culture, values, products and services.
Employees must "live" the expectation of brand performance
in their day-to-day interactions. Management must demonstrate
their commitment to these values through leadership as well as
corporate, marketing, and internal communications.
The world's
strongest brands, such as Starbucks, Coca-Cola, IBM and Monster,
clearly demonstrate this every day. These names, that first represented
logo designs, now represent consumer expectations of performance.