Start-up Branding (Strategy & Story)
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The document discusses branding strategies for startups. It defines startups and branding, noting that branding for startups involves conveying the company's core message and values to build a loyal customer base. The document provides tips for startups on developing their brand identity, positioning, and messaging as well as strategies for low-cost branding using free online tools and social media. It also discusses common branding mistakes to avoid and provides examples of successful startup branding through case studies.
Start-up Branding (Strategy & Story)
- 1. Start-up Branding Are you ready? Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 1
- 2. Defining Start-up & Branding • Start-up: A startup company or startup is a company, a partnership or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. • Branding: A process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person or animal. Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 2
- 3. Start-up Branding Branding is not just about telling a great story or having a memorable logo and slogan—its primary goal is to convey the company’s heart and soul to an audience. What does the company stand for? What is the personality? What is your message, and why should I buy into it? By creating a message and having your actions be congruent to it, you create a powerful brand that will give customers a reason to continue buying from you. As a startup, your brand will be the most valuable asset you have at your disposable. Leverage it wisely. Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 3
- 4. What does your Start-up Brand look like?? Got any ideas…. Let us share – right now! Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 4
- 5. Track, Evaluate, and Adjust Revamp your website Develop Content Mktg. Strategy Figure out the USP Create Visual Identity Define Brand Voice Compose a Mission & Vision Establish your Values Define TG Mentoring helps in all the phases!! Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave Do your Research www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 5
- 6. Things NOT to do! • • • • • • • Being Fanciful Aspiring for now Going with just an Idea Seeking Results readily Apply Jobs Keeping Plans to yourself Premium or Low Pricing Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 6
- 7. Activity – Let us talk about your Brand now! • Think of the 5 things you will do create a brand….make a brief plan and share • Consultants – Listen to the brand idea and share your concerns • Summarize the learning! Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave TOP 5 Things to START! • Decide what you are going to do • Finalize a name • Create a Look • Create a Message • Bundle it all www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 7
- 8. 3 ASS RULE By Jeff Clavier Managing Partner, Softech VC Ever wondered what’s going on in an investor’s mind during a start up pitch? Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 8
- 9. 3 Team What never works? Product Traction Is it working? Cost of Funding Smartass Team Kickass Product Bigass Market Funds Contacted Market Opportunity Funding Other Investors Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave Valuation Founder Dilution www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com A S S E S R U L E 9
- 10. What’s Cooking? Ah! A Start-up Brand • • • • • RECIPE Know your Brand Know your Customers Flexibility and Futuristic Create a Design Story Be Humorous • • • • • INGREDIENTS Name Personality Slogan / Jingle Visual Style Verbal Style Gaining the Cost Advantage Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 10
- 11. Smart Branding : Gain Cost Advantage • • • • • • Think Less about Branding & more about SALE Pick a Smart Design Keep it Simple Permission Marketing Affiliate Marketing Time Management Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 11
- 12. Social Branding for Start-up: Free Tools • Google Alerts, Trends and Insights • Website/Blog • SEO • Local Business Listing • Use PPC , Social Media Ads: LinkedIn , Facebook Ads, Google ad words • Web tools like Topsy, Socialmention can be used to track about your brands sentiments digitally Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 12
- 13. Invest more here…. In an ideal situation, a brand shall invest more in – • Developing Services • Analyzing the needs and creating an Offer • Managing Portfolio and expanding it • Target Great testimonials, create Brand Advocates • Innovation and Timely Delivery • Smart Brand Goals • Avoid Overselling or Burnout Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 13
- 14. 5 Common Mistakes in Branding a Start-up! • • • • • • Confused Orientation Not following KIPS Picking Buzzwords (Starting with Godaddy) Too much of Branding and lesser reach Messaging by committee Not Evolving “Our mission is to help innovative leaders in the CPG industry increase the velocity of their business and drive engagement with their social communities to inspire meaningful change.” Or “to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases.” Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 14
- 15. START-UP STORIES Let us now discuss some success stories to understand the practicality of Start-up branding strategy. Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 15
- 16. Story: Desperate Branding • I will design my own logo. • Business cards – ah! Just about half an hour • Meeting & Re-doing it all • Saving money • Not Learning from Mistakes • Diluting the Brand Image • Satisfied with just money – making and no value additions Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 16
- 17. Story: Haste makes a Waste Branding • • • • Too many ideas Quick to launch Identity & Development Not laying out right foundations • Following ideas and not consumers • Concentrating too much on Branding & only Branding • Underestimating the power of words Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 17
- 18. Relevance, Truth & Reach Out of AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 18
- 19. A Political Start-up Ideas are not enough, Execution matters Spend some time introspecting, are you spending your time talking about the cool ideas to implement on your product or the tricks that could get you more business, than doing it. It is ok if Co-founders/Partners separate ways So, in your startup – if a time comes where your partners differ at such a basic and fundamental way of doing things – just go your way. Empowered Customers, Speak for the brand Are your customers raving about your customer service near their business circles ? Think about how you can create a single satisfied customer, so he becomes your permanent product ambassador. Be Audacious Don’t hide behind your nice landing pages and a bullet list of features. Can you clearly mention why you are better than your competitors in the market and stand by it? Think again. Get into a Market Ripe for Disruption Is your startup addressing a need to your potential customers? Find a real problem and solve it. If you have to make your customers aware of the problem before selling your solution, you would shut the shop real fast. Product Counts most, it gets your Crowd funding So, before going the crowd funding mode, be absolutely sure that the end product is useful, and people would feel like paying and waiting for your it Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 19
- 20. AAP Media Strategy, the beginning.. • Market Testing: Anna Hazare Campaign • Touching the chords with youth – the first time voters • Reaching out the Seniors through the traditional form The Anna movement in 2011 may have used social media heavily to drive citizen response to its cause, but a political party needs votes, not followers! Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 20
- 21. Demographic and an Income-group strategy. • Adopted the traditional forms for voter outreach • Party’s poll plank talked of regularizing jhuggis, and giving free water and heavily subsidized electricity • They made good use of out-ofhome media • There were volunteers who sat with local residents and prepared constituency-level manifestos Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 21
- 22. All the makings of a start-up, an entrepreneurial venture… On the inside, the AAP is filled with the idealistic dreams, the quintessential gleam in the eye, the fervent hope and desire for change, the fearlessness, and the utmost self-belief, amidst the down-to-earth reality of operating low-on-cash. Most importantly, AAP appears to have a fiercely committed set of diehard supporters and spirited volunteers bound by a shared sense of sacrifice that money can’t buy. Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 22
- 23. Story: the Chai ki Thadi The name has been taken from Mumbai’s local language, where Tapri is equal to a chai ki thadi. Ankit Bohra and Sourabh Bapna, started their journey in a filmy way. They find celebs and entrepreneur as heavy words. The group Zero, “Zero we got and from zero we started” “I reflected on myself, what I would want, what would I like to eat as a consumer and how much would I be willing to pay for it.” Their target is aam aadmi, the mango people. Tapri Pratham, was their first playground aimed at students and Tapri Central their second experimental ground, aimed at jaipur in general. Age is a state of mind, we should rather put it as, how preoccupied are we. Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 23
- 24. Story: Few interesting Start-ups! • • • • • • • Tapri Seat 14A Graphicurry Art Store Theek Kar Do Hammer & Mop Services CleanFanatic Bikana Films Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 24
- 25. Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 25
- 26. Activity Time • You are the Brand Strategists of a start-up and you need to build on a Branding Strategy. • Each Group will represent a separate start-up • Audience will be free to ask questions to the branding team of these start-ups • Start-up Details and conditions are provided to each team lead. Tip: Start-ups are mostly Cash Strapped and dwell on innovation. Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 26
- 27. Few Start-up Ideas for Students.. • • • • • • • • • Flyer Marketing Shoe Wash Company Baby sitting Services Resume Writing Services Tutoring Services Gifting Services Career Guidance City Walks Tech Teaching Services Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 27
- 28. Planning a Start-up! Read Books… 1. Start with Why by Simon Sinek 2. E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber 3. Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port 4. $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau 5. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries 6. The Startup Owner’s Manual by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf 7. Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar 8. How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling by Frank Bettger 9. Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer Source: www.mohitpawar.com Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 28
- 29. NOW All THE BEST Connect to me at: jigyasa@30thfeb.com Join me at: www.facebook.com/30thfeb / www.twitter.com/jlaroiya Jigyasa Laroiya @ KSOM, Marketing Conclave www.30thfeb.com/blog | Email:jigyasa@30thfeb.com 29