Is Your Logo Helping or Hurting Your Business? The quality of your logo can mean
difference between success or failure. It can be that simple!
Trademarks and Logos make up
most international language in
world. An excellent logo can cross many barriers and provide your organization with a means of delivering to your customers an unequivocal and uniform message.
Every successful company has its own "personality," and just as human personalities are complex, so too is your company's personality. A successful logo is a means of condensing a complex reality into a single, simple statement, one that can be controlled, modified, developed and matured over time.
Your logo needs to be much more than just a distinguishing mark for your company. It must be an indication of quality, value, and reliability.
Does your logo do these things successfully?:
• IDENTIFY your company, product, or service.
• DIFFERENTIATE it from
mass of other similar companies.
• COMMUNICATE information as to your products value and quality.
• ADD VALUE by causing you to provide a quality service in order to maintain your company's reputation.
• REPRESENT potentially valuable assets. When people see your logo, can they tell by
design that your product or service is of high quality.
If your logo doesn't do these things, then you might need to update it, possibly seeking professional advice.
Is your logo design really that important?
It is extremely important! Your logo is a part of
foundation on which you build your brand. Especially since
recent explosion of Internet businesses, but even before that, consumers have an overwhelming variety of choices. Chances are that whatever you are selling, there is something similar to it available. Chances are there is someone in direct competition with you right now. Yes, there are very few products that are shielded from direct competition because of a patent or for some other reason.
It is because of this that much of your efforts in marketing and branding should be concentrated on building a distinctive and differentiated "brand personality" for your company.
Take
success of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. There is some difference between these two products, but this difference is very subtle. Plus, there are hundreds of other brands of cola on
market. Even so, these two brands, Coke and Pepsi, are able to dominate
world wide cola market. What is
main factor for their success? It is
strength and appeal of their brands.