Creating Your Company’s First Impression? Here’s How You Can Ace it.
Janis B
Janis, an email marketing expert with 3+ years of experience, consults digital businesses on expanding their reach and boosting sales. She’s a prolific content writer, frequent industry speaker, and the founder of targetaccesshub.com, an online email marketing event.
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There are several nuances to setting up a successful business. Perhaps, the most underrated of these is creating the right first impression. Often, the first impression of your company is created in the minds of people and brands alike even before they interact with you directly. What is it that they come across, and how can you tailor it to influence them in your favor? Read on to find out!
Develop a Brand with Authenticity
Being honest about the brand, its offerings, and how they stand out from other players in the market is the first step to creating a lasting impression. When a brand’s mission and values are transparent, its customers identify them while interacting with the brand and its people later. This reinforces their faith in the brand. The easiest way to develop an authentic brand that people connect with is to tell stories of your brand’s journey—its challenges, how they were overcome, customer satisfaction stories, and the like.
Create a Strong Website
A website is crucial to the reliability factor of a brand. Hence, it is essential to make sure that a brand’s mission and values, as well as its unique value proposition, is highlighted on its website. There needs to be a concise balance of details about the product itself and brand insights. However, do not make the website text-heavy—make sure there is ample white space. Pictures, videos, or infographics work to make a point while making the website visually appealing.
Build a Company Profile that Answers Questions
A common mistake people make while creating a company profile is giving an overview of the company without going into details. While this gives some insight into the functioning of your organization, it will leave several questions unanswered. More often than not, these questions are asked repeatedly. Then, why not answer them in the company’s profile itself, to begin with? It leads to readers being more satisfied as they finish reading and drastically increases both their trust and the chances of making a purchase.
Set Your Digital Presence
Digital presence sets the tone for customer expectations. Both up-and-coming brands and ones that have been around for a while can safely assume that new customers will explore and examine their digital footprint. However, while older brands have their years of success to speak for them, new ones need to prioritize keeping tabs on their digital footprint to send out the right message. In simple words, brands need to talk about themselves, their values, their products/services, how they distinguish themselves from competitors, and steer clear of controversial topics while they make their mark.
Use E-mail Marketing as a Catalyst
While e-mail marketing has been around since 1978, this method remains evergreen in creating your company’s first impression. Brands have the choice of segregating their audience and sending them relevant information, as opposed to sending out the same information to everyone. E-mails can be personalized and sent out periodically for brand awareness, touching base with people, pursuing leads, or following up on clients.