Brand! What comes to your mind hearing this word?
“A well renowned name delivering world class quality with unique factor”, well
that is the purpose of a Brand at first place. But looking at its literal
connotation it means ‘to burn’, like the cattle used to carry
a burn mark on their body to be recognized by anybody, if found anywhere which
originated back in times when one’s cattle could not be distinguished from
others’. Now this term is being used (literally) by every second person on this
Earth. Brand can be anything, your name, logo, design, TM or whatever. You just
need to register it with relevant authorities for your audience’s recognition.
Apart from the name and logo, can you really
convey your brand’s features, vision, mission and message in few words; just a
sentence? Like “Life’s Good”, “just do it”, “connecting people”, “I’m loving it”
and others of same sort. These kinds of sentences are more like a tagline for
your business which convey your strong message with simplicity. So if you are
considering of having one-sentence-policy to convey your whole business to the
end customer, you need to do a thorough research about your brand along with
your team and come out with the most though upon and most convincing
statements. These statements can be concluded by thinking upon questions like
what is your significance, who is your audience whom you can target, why these
customers preferred you over other brands, what are the characteristics of your
brand and so on.
All these questions need to be included in
brainstorming session with your team mates to form more than single opinion on
each of them. It will help you in making your position stronger in the market
by keeping you ahead of your competitors.

Establishing oneself as a brand in this cannibalistic market scenario is undoubtedly a hard nut to crack. And those who cracked this nut are those people, who have considered these above mentioned points with few more and now we all know them. Well thanks for letting us know about the origin of “brand”. It’s quite clear with its usefrom a long time, that differentiating oneself has been a trend since the evolution of humanity I guess. Good for the receivers who have more qualitative, vivid and immense choices as compared to the givers.
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