Building a strong brand is often what sets apart a small business from its competitors. Having a strong visual identity helps a brand stay in the minds of their customers and build a relationship with them.
Branding is one of the most important exercises of trial and error that everybody faces when they start a business. The choice of colours, uniforms, logos, and even the tone of your brand needs some mental flex of creativity on your behalf. Even slogans need to be revised over and over to make sure they make sense.
When we touch the topic of beauty brands, we can see a lot of half-efforts and examples of things we should avoid as we build our own brand. The goal is to stand out from the rest, in a good way. Being a brand that is flat, lifeless, and lacking personality is not an option.
What Happens if You Don’t Build a Strong Brand?
Having the wrong branding strategy can kill all your efforts to make your mark in the beauty industry. A weak brand can have the best strategy and service in the world, and it will still fall flat if people can’t remember who you are.
Your brand is the soul of your business. It’s a reflection of your hopes and dreams, and as such, it should be a reflection of your efforts. It's a fundamental issue that will permeate all of the company's communication activities. Your brand speaks for you and expresses everything you are in the little things like:
- the way you communicate with your clients
- in your name
- in your logo
- in the beauty uniforms of your employees
- in the colours of your business
- in the fonts used for your messages
- in the images you choose to represent your brand
Meet the public
Even without a large budget to do market research, it is essential to listen to other’s opinions. Do an informal survey with family and friends to see if they like it or not but don´t make the mistake of constantly changing your business’s identity.
The market today has no set rules for defining brands, but it's important to know how colours, shapes and designs influence your target audience.
All of this helps to create an identity that truly represents your salon. And it's not just visually, the name and the environment are also ways to identify a brand. In some cases, even musical signatures are part of this process.
And remember, your well-designed and well-crafted identity should be used in all of your company's marketing efforts, from a social media post to street advertising.