The Brand Is You

The Brand Is You

I’m going to talk about, Why Should They Care? (your customers) Why should they care about you at all? What's Your Message? Do people understand you? Are they confusing you? They don't know! We will discuss that, and, What's Your Outcome? These are three vital questions. We cover this into great detail at Passion2Profit, because these are fundamentals that yet are overlooked. And I'm going to demonstrate exactly what I mean by "overlooked".

Why Should They Care?

How often do you drive down the motorway and you see all the signage on the vans going past one after another? And yet, 10 seconds after that van's past or you’ve gone past them; you don't remember anything about their advertising. Nothing has stuck!

I want you to do the test next time you are out driving. You'll see a lot of white vans, silver vans, there will be some wording on the van, but can you recall it just a few seconds later? Most likely not, because look at them, they're all the same just putting a lot of words. How quickly can you retain that information? And yet, you're being bombarded with messages like this constantly all day long. And you, as the customer, why should you care? They don’t care if you're running your business, they don't care about you, they don't care about your business at all. Unless you've done something to show that you care. Unless you've done something to stand out or give them a reason to want to contact you, to make you the point of entry into their world. But yet, when you look at these vans, what tempts you as a customer to want to take that next step? Probably nothing.

What's Your Message?

In business just like Adam...Adam didn’t know how to express what he exactly did. He was an SEO Adviser to companies. What does that mean? A lot of people would not know ("Search Engine Optimisation”). And yet it took Adam quite a few hours to come up with exactly what he does. Adam get’s people to websites that means that the owner, the business owner has the opportunity to convert those visitors into customers. And yet what does Adam do? What is his message? Well eventually he worked out "traffic". He brings traffic to people's business. So he even renamed himself Adam Traffic. And what we had to do, what a Joel Bauer did in this case, was combine the image of who are we dealing with. It’s dealing with Adam, and Adam is a computer expert that brings people, and that's the crowd, to the site. And in simplicity, in very simple terms, in imagery, that's what we convey. This guy sits next to the computer, makes it look easy, and brings traffic.

What is your message? Think back at those vans...what was their message?

What's Your Outcome?

Well it comes back to what we just spoke about. Adam's was traffic. It was bringing people to a website. Now what are you doing? Are you a plumber? Are you an electrician? What differentiates you? You've got to think about what’s the outcome. Well to get more business?