Success is a science, and I am a Marketing Scientist, a Brand Scientist to be specific. It was during my GCSE exams that I first excelled in Science, my teacher at the time put a £5 bet on me by saying it would take a miracle to achieve anything above two C’s. Since I stepped foot in this city (London) I aimed to prove everyone wrong, with my friends I would do so on the football pitch, eventually reaching a fraction of semi-pro status. But this time, I had to prove my science teacher wrong. The exam results came out on a beautiful August day, and voila – I got my two B’s for science. Mrs Cook did keep her word, and gave me my deserved £5.
You see, Marketing is a science, once you figure out the analytics, connect the dots, be on top of your SEO, pinpoint your ads to your niche customers, then you will have success. Branding in particular is the deepest of the Marketing sciences, it’s guilty for brand growth, brand image and brand ethos – done in accordance to Marketing psychology. Branding is an ocean of knowledge that can create waves of success, if done correctly of course. Branding is the secret ingredient of Marketing, yes it’s only a portion of the topic but the recipe to success doesn’t exist without a great Brand ethos.
That’s why you should condition your mind with colours, logos, content, creativity, typography, art… the list goes on. I believe the modern day artists are Graphic Designers, for they just get Branding. I cannot draw but I’ve had many visions where I worked alongside designers to create successful logos. Branding consultants are visionaries, for they marinate ideas that can flourish in the near future. The melody behind marketing is branding, and the core of branding is emotional branding. To create brands that capture peoples’ emotions are the greatest of brands, hence when I created 4umum.com in 2012 I didn’t know how great it was. After years of solo social media promotion, we have just passed 48,000 views and nearing the big 50k. Not only did I create gifts for mother’s but I went deeper into the meaning and promised the profits to my dear mother, that’s why it’s called 4umum after all.
So I urge you all to sharpen your minds with branding and indulge in books, that’s how I did it. Books such as, “Who Moved my Cheese,” or “Edward de Bono’s Lateral Thinking,” to “Brand Positioning by Al Ries,” they all played their part in the enlightening process. Knowledge is a magnet to success, but there comes a time when you need to practice this new found knowledge. For example, when I first started consulting for restaurants and designing their menus plus websites, I would watch the epic Chef’s table on Netflix. I would be inspired by the dishes each chef would create, for they are the Leonardo Da Vinci’s of today, and every buzzword that sounded interesting, I noted down in my one page keyword. From flavour, to aromatic, irresistible, potent, pollinate, seed, cream to coated and poached, I wrote them all. And when I got my first restaurant as a client, I put those words into exceptional use by creating sentences such as, “the key ingredient to our success is delighting your taste-buds,” to the rather cool, “we answer your cravings,” sentence.
To conclude, Branding is also an art – a marketing art. Try to be creative in whatever you do, do not lose your artistic side. As my favourite author Paulo Coelho said, “there is a difference between being childish & childlike.” Childish is a spoilt brat whereas childlike is that creative, artistic, full of joy being. So please do not lose that creativity in you…
Long Live the Crayon Kids!
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