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Branding Strategy
Branding is usually the first step in a business’ marketing strategy. It’s also a continuous process for any healthy brand. Read on to learn more about what branding is and how online advertising can play a crucial role in it. If you rather reach out directly, that is also totally fine!
What is Branding?
Branding is a fundamental concept in marketing that encompasses the process of creating a unique and distinguishable identity for a product, service, or company. It’s about creating positive perceptions, emotions, and associations in the minds of consumers.
As such, branding is often one of the first marketing steps in a new company’s strategy. However, there is no such thing as a branding phase that ends once the company is established. Branding serves multiple purposes throughout your marketing strategy. It helps build and maintain recognition, trust, and loyalty among existing consumers as well as attract new ones, and is therefore an ongoing process.
In summary, branding is the strategic process of creating and nurturing a distinct and desirable identity that resonates with consumers, fosters loyalty, and contributes to a company’s overall marketing success.
How can online advertising add value to your branding strategy?
The perfect branding strategy creates a cohesive and consistent experience across various touchpoints, such as advertising, packaging, website, and customer service.
Online advertising can significantly enhance your branding strategy by adding value in several ways. Firstly, it provides a wide reach, allowing you to connect with a vast audience across various digital platforms, including websites, social media, search engines, and mobile apps.
Secondly, online advertising offers precise targeting capabilities, enabling you to reach specific demographics, interests, and behaviors of your target audience. By delivering tailored messages to the right people, you can effectively communicate your brand’s unique value proposition and build meaningful connections.
Moreover, online advertising provides measurable results and data-driven insights. You can track key performance metrics, which help you evaluate the effectiveness of your branding efforts and make data-informed decisions for the next phase of your marketing strategy.
Branding channels
Meta Ads
The platform including Facebook and Instagram Ads.
TikTok Ads
Getting engagement with a younger target audience via TikToks.
Video Advertising
Reaching a broad audience through one of the many video networks (e.g. YouTube).
Display Advertising
Reaching a broad audience by one of the many display networks.
Snapchat Ads
Being visible among a younger target audience.
Pinterest Ads
Advertising when people where people are finding inspiration.
LinkedIn Ads
Advertising targeting the professional audiences.
Spotify Ads
Advertising within the Spotify website and apps.
How can we help you in deciding on your (branding) strategy?
Our customers are different every time. Advertisers selling the exact same products can turn out to need a very different approach due to different margins, different secondary USPs, different setups of marketing teams, and different levels of online savviness. That’s why for each customer, but also for each project within the customers’ organisation, we create a custom plan, every time.
First we’ll need to understand the customers’ organisation and the objectives. By making them quantifiable, we will understand what the boundaries are of how to ‘play the online game’. Then we will dive into your data to understand the current situation and look for opportunities. In order to come up with the right (branding) strategy.
We believe that if both sides – the customer and we as the agency – bring their knowledge to the table, we can make the most successful strategies. That is why we need to get to know each other very well, have clear success metrics in place, we need to zoom out regularly, and always keep an open conversation.
We always make a tailored plan for each of our clients. With these 4 steps, together we will come up with the right online strategy, in line with your overall objectives.
Getting to know each other
First, we would like to learn more about your organization, objectives, timeline, and needs. We will explain our services and approach to determine whether there is a match between our organizations. If there is, we can move on to step two.
Account Deepdive
Next, we would like to conduct an account deep dive to gain insights that will help us create a fitting proposal. We will use data to determine the channel mix, messaging, and data and tech needs.
Proposal Presentation
During our (video) meeting, we will present our proposal outlining our suggested online strategy. We will provide you with different scenarios and related fees, and there will be plenty of time for questions.
Let’s start!
After you have reviewed our proposal and selected the scenario that best fits your needs and situation, we can begin working immediately. We look forward to working closely with you to achieve success!
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Frequently
Asked Questions
What is DV360?
DV360 is an advertising platform developed by Google, designed to help businesses create, manage and optimize digital advertising campaigns across multiple channels and devices with a focus on premium publishers.
Can Hide and Seek manage my social media for me?
At Hide and Seek we do what we do best: online advertising. That means we don’t create and manage organic social media content. For a full overview of our services, check out our services page.
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