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Online business identity importance
No matter what enterprise you wish to launch, one of the most important
things you'll have to determine is the identity of your business.
It will indirectly affect your business.
Adequate online
business identity leads to good reputation and so to higher income.
How identity affects your business
Originality can
make you different from your competitors. And: being different from
others, more original, unique in a way, can be perceived as having better
quality services/products.
If your online
business has a solid, comprehendible identity (easy to perceive by
clients), then they will remember it and probably select it over
competitors.
Companies,
products and services are perceived by people as "actors". If a product,
company or service has a well-define personality and puts accent on good
quality, then people will have strong feelings towards it. Think of brands
like: Ferrarri, Mercedes, BMW, Panasonic, Yamaha, Nike, Carlsberg, Nokia,
Virgin Atlantic Airways, etc. - they all have well established, solid
identities and part of their success is due to their image.
What you need to
do is to create an adequate identity for your business. This will affect
your business on the long term. Therefore, you'll have to think deep and
take a lot of time to create a good identity. The process is difficult,
requires a special sense. Remember, you want to create a business
personality, which, if you succeed, your enterprise will be associated
with for a long time.
If you don't
manage to create the identity you'd like or if something bothers you in
it, then don't take the risk! An inadequate image can ruin your business.
Sometimes mistakes are made but only later noticed. Therefore, careful
planning and analyzing is recommended: you'll need to find out what your
potential clients like, what is good to associate your business with and
what's not.
Creating an adequate identity for your online business
What does
identity mean? Shortly, this:
Names
Find a good enterprise/company name
It has to sound well, has to be easy to write down. And if your
business affects more than 1 language speaking potential clients (in case
you offer your products/services to people who speak different languages),
then you'll have to make sure that your company/enterprise name can be
read out easily.
Name must sound
clear, must not be confusing. Must be very different from anything else
well-known to potential clients.
Trademarks, brand names , product/service names
You can find names to our products, services. Some of the best brand
names are not actually the manufacturing company's name (example:
Panasonic is the brand of Matsushita Electronics).
Your services,
products must be distinguishable between each other. This will help your
clients choose the ones they like.
Trademarks,
brand names have to be comprehensible too, easy to read out. They are very
important, because they too (not only the company name) are perceived as
actors by clients.
These names must
not sound confusing or similar to services, products or trademarks, brand
names of other companies.
Visual identity
Create a good company logo
A logo, an emblem is always important. There are
specialized companies that create logos for businesses. Make sure you
choose the right logo, which must be custom-made.
Logo must not necessarily be an image, it can be a text, written with a
special font, in special colours, effects, etc.
The best thing
is to turn to specialized companies that create logos.
Functional identity
Unique way of functioning
The way your
business functions, the rules, the policies, the way the clients are
treated, etc. also affects your images, reputation.
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