Corporate Branding Consulting

What is a Corporate Branding Consulting?

A common misconception in branding is that a company logo and catchy tagline defines what a brand is. However, this is an incomplete description of branding, according to Search Engine Journal. Companies should instead look at their brand as something that answers four critical questions for customers: who they are, what they offer, why they exist, and the customers they serve. As Corporate Branding Consultants, we examine the intricacies of the entire business operations, infrastructure, and internal processes so that your brand can align with your company’s overall goals and purpose.

Corporate Branding Consulting Experts, describe branding as a promise that organizations make to customers and shareholders, representing what they expect the company to deliver. At Impact Branding Consulting, we approach each business ready to learn about the heart of the company’s vision and mission in order to develop strategic plans for the entire brand. As Corporate Branding Consultants, we help companies break down the barriers leading to brand confusion, stagnant leadership, ineffective customer engagement, decreased productivity, chaotic daily operations as well as inconsistent brand messaging all through strategic brand development. Want to chat with a Corporate Branding Consultant?

Why Should You Work with A Corporate Branding Consultant?

Study.com defines a corporate branding consultant as an individual or team that offers a range of branding services to clients to help the business establish or expand its brand. You can choose to work with a consultant through the entire process, from defining or refreshing your company’s vision, goals, and strategies to increasing efficiency, productivity, and revenue.

Here is a partial list of the added value our corporate branding consultants are capable of bringing to your company.

Analyze your company’s competition and determine how it can offer a more unique value proposition.
Develop a comprehensive strategic plan of action with measurable key performance indicators and metrics.
Conduct market research to gain insight into consumer perceptions of your company and the buying behavior trends.
Review and improve systems and processes to create a more streamlined approach for daily operations.
Help to establish a financial value for new products or services before your company makes them

available to the public.
Identify target markets and develop customer demographics before a product or service launch.
Perform an internal audit of operations and credentialing to ensure the company remains audit proactive versus audit reactive.

Your corporate branding consultant completing this initial work is critical to the overall brand strategy that influences decisions such as:

Customer service messaging
Improving supply chain efficiency
Distribution channels for new products
Product or service pricing model
Content strategy
Leadership development
Team building

The Process of Developing a Strong Corporate Brand

Entrepreneur Magazine compares building a brand to having an intense focus on profound discovery within a company. While this is necessary, these approaches can be uncomfortable, require a significant time commitment, and maybe highly challenging. Experienced corporate brand consultants, such as Impact Branding Consulting understand the reality of the amount of work required and are able to make the process less stressful and more efficient from the start.

Below are some clarifying questions a corporate brand consultant might ask to initiate the process of identifying and implementing a new brand strategy. Answering questions like these provide a high-level overview to open the door to delve further into developing a customized strategy for your brand.

What are your company’s mission and vision and why do you exist?
What do you think are the best features and benefits of your company’s products and services?
What emotional triggers would you ideally like customers to associate with your company?
What areas of the company do you feel need to be improved and what areas need to be created?

Consider Input from Team Members

The corporate branding consultant is brought in on the team to sharpen the company brand by either creating a new strategy for the brand or by refreshing the current brand. When collaborating and defining this strategy, it is often helpful having feedback from company team members. The input given allows our team to have a deeper insight into the whole company from every angle and will enable us to address issues, bottlenecking, miscommunication, and concerns upfront so that the final strategy is all-encompassing. One of the most efficient ways to solicit accurate and honest feedback is to distribute an anonymous employee survey, especially a 3d party survey. Educating team members that they can remain anonymous if they wish will be critical to getting as close to 100% participation as possible. Getting honest feedback from team members is one of the most valuable gifts the leadership and executive team can receive. This information will give the company accelerated wisdom to knowing the accurate perception of how their business is running.

The most effective way to develop surveys like this is to ask a higher percentage of open-ended questions. This approach will require a more personalized response to each question offering a deeper understanding from the team members’ view.

Steps After Creating a New Brand Strategy

As your corporate branding consultant will explain, implementing all of the suggested changes will take time and may require a phased approach for rollout.

Unfortunately, some businesses don’t want to wait and become impatient. However, the importance of doing things in phases and following a timeline for the sequence of events prevent premature announcements, sending inaccurate messages, launching before resolving glitches, and confusing customers which may push them to do business with your competitor. Implementing the new brand internally and externally will require a strategic collaboration between our corporate branding consultants, company leaders, and team members. Disconnects in this collaboration will contribute to unnecessary delays, expenses and stress. During the pre-launch phase and after, we often suggest and incorporate Corporate Training services so that the entire staff is aware of the changes being implemented in their workplace. After our clients experience our corporate training, leadership recognizes immediate changes within the team, including:

• More effective communication between leadership and staff

• Increased efficiency and productivity among team members

• Stronger brand awareness and customer engagement

• Waste reduction

• Increased Cash Flow and Profit Margins

Next Steps

Now that you understand what a corporate brand consultant does and why working with one is so important, we invite you to request a discovery assessment. We look forward to helping you to create or refresh your brand with strategic and intentional focus.

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