Your whole effort at branding is to make your product as attractive as possible, where packaging is usually the key. This is an area of marketing that businesses so much rely on to hook up consumers but deceptive branding may turn out into a total disaster that will quickly send you into the oblivion if you are involved in the practice. The situation has got to an alarming rate to the extent that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is no longer taking things lying low and has felt the need to step in with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), against sellers of nicotine-containing e-liquids that looked like juice boxes, candy, and cookies that were seen as having the potential of creating a mixup for children with other look-alike ordinary products. This is a type of deceptive branding that could be plain dangerous. You may think you are out to disguise but that can be a devilishly subtle way of deception. In branding, there’s a big difference between trying to push the truth and outrightly making false claims. That’s what deceptive branding is. A lot of businesses have suffered untold setbacks for peddling mediocre products while using wild claims like…
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Untainted Credibility Will Remarkably Boost Your ROI
Untainted credibility of your brand is the magic wand, the game changer, the launch pad, and the competitive marker your brand needs to hold sway in the overwhelming competitive market. For you to scale through and make the necessary impact in today’s market, you must work assiduously on any factor that will give you a competitive advantage. You need leverage whatever good points you may have to boost your ROI. After the overhead and other sundry expenses, investors won’t be avast to smiling to the bank. Your credibility at the core is the sum total of your brand’s goodwill, the personification of your reputation, and the gate crasher to the market. It determines how people regard your product or service. The leads your brand generates and conversions made depend entirely on your credibility and it takes hard work to build one. You should jealously guard and nurture any credibility you must have built because it’s your blank cheque. Research from Statua Labs found out that, 85% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations Peers are now considered to be as credible as experts. Positive reviews make 73% of consumers trust a local business more 64% trust online…
Customer Engagement: Creatively Delivering Your Product
Customers expect marketing to do more than just sell to them, they expect more than just the product from the brand. This is the basis for customer engagement, for emotional involvement and commitment from the customer. A few years back, all a brand was required to do was to put up a very big ad on a billboard, magazine, or any of the electronic media; telling people how great they are and how better they are than all other brands. The truth is that customers were taken in by these ads and funny enough, life moved on. However, technology and advancement in digital marketing as well as the new channels of communication they have created varied and assorted ways of advertising and reaching across to customers. The potential for customer engagement is being discovered by brands and there is the absolute need to meet customers where they are and have genuine conversations with them. You need to tell them inspirational stories that will lead to their emotional involvement and commitment. You must court their loyalty to enable them to spread the word about your products, buy, and remain loyal to the brand. Most marketing practices are aimed at stimulating and…