The Four Step Branding Process - Step 4 - How to implement your new brand

Lizz Clarke • 6 March 2020

Professional and Consistent Branding is Vital



Welcome to the concluding blog in our series looking at the four step branding process and why professional and consistent branding is vital to any successful business. So far, we have looked at brand workshops, developing a brand manualand creating a visual brand identity.

This final fourth step brings together all of the processes carried out in steps one to three, to actually put the newly created brand into practical use by implementing the new messaging and visual identity across all of your business marketing materials.

Digital
Your new visual approach needs to work digitallyas well as in print so once the designs are all in place you need to update all of your online presence, which means not only your website but also all your social media platforms, email signatures and anywhere else your brand appears online.

Stationery
If you use headed paper, branded notepads, envelopes or any other stationery then you will need a plan in place to wind down use of the old branded sets and move into the new brand. It may be a gradual change so as not to waste resources, or it may be immediate with old stock taken to recycling.

Marketing collateral
All your business marketing collateral including leaflets, brochures, flyers, printed banners, business cards and any catalogues you might have, will all need to be updated and reprinted in the new branding so you will need to have a budget set aside for this. If you are a new business then you just need to make sure you have versions of the brand visuals to use in different formats as you start to create various marketing materials.

Advertising
Don’t forget, if you have any long running advertising campaigns booked, either online, or in print, you will need to update the artwork and provide a new advert to the publication or website in the revised branding.

Signage
An easy one to overlook once the branding has been updated is any signage which you have on the outside of the building, or on the estate where your business is based such as directional signs. All of these now need to be updated as well.

Legal documents
If you have changed the business name and/or logo then this will all need to be reflected and updated in any legal documents relating to the business.

The very final stage in this four step branding process is to create Brand Guidelines for the business. The guidelines ensure that the visual identity such as colours, fonts and sizes and position of logos, will be consistent throughout all marketing materials. The guidelines mean anyone working on the brand will do so in the same way.


If you would like to speak to our branding experts or book a brand workshop for your business then please do give us a call or send us an email about your requirements today. Telephone 01489 891870 or email info@lcm.co.uk.

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