When Do You Need To Reset Your Brand Mindset?

Small-business owners make a number of common foolish assumptions about branding, including:

• SMMEs do not have brand recognition.
• My business is too small in order to be a brand.
• There are a lot of different competitors in our industry which means that striving for individuality is pointless.
• Having the lowest possible price is the only thing which matters to my customers.

Do you recognise any of these assumptions in your own brand mindset? If so, your thought process could be a bit misguided. It took a number of different years in business for us to start to recognise these limiting mindsets.

Business growth, in our experience, includes a number of different factors:

• Systems and processes,
• Delegation and having the correct team,
• Consistent marketing and visibility, and
• A clear brand message and communication strategy.

Without those, a business can easily stall and plateau. What most business owners don’t realise, however, is how much brand mindset plays a part to help increase your business growth.

Avoid Damage By Monitoring Your Brand

The main two ways of gauging your online reputation is by examining at the search engine results pages (SERP) and by utilising Google Autocomplete. By remaining ahead of any negative stories, you are able to take a proactive approach of safeguarding your reputation. If you are seeing an issue arise, you can go into Google Analytics and look for spikes in your site traffic which will point out key events as well as possible red flags.

Review Your Brand Position

Gaining greater clarity around where you are at right now is essential to planning your leadership pathway forward! By Identifying what’s holding you back, what your biggest frustrations are, your what’s working and what’s not personally, financially and professionally will offer insights on how to improve and maximise your brand value and leadership skills.

Build on Your Brand Equity

Your brand equity or brand value is unique to you and is constantly evolving as you grow and evolve too. Your brand equity is the influence and impact you have on others and how they value it.

Your brand means a lot of different things to various people, clients and consumers. If they value your ability to communicate, connect, or empathise, then they will place higher value these skills and be looking for these attributes in your ‘brand’.

Remember that your brand equity is very individual, multi-faceted and embraces more than just your experience as well expertise. It includes your reputation and the high-level soft skills that distinguish you from your competitors and ultimately assists you with building remarkable trust, authority and influence in your niche market or industry.

Building your brand equity means that you can also charge a premium for your products or services as you add extraordinary value that your competitors don’t.  So, your brand must remain relevant, current and authentic to be of value to you.

Get in touch with the Digital School of Marketing

If you want to become a brand management expert, then you need to do our Brand Management Course. Follow this link to find out more.